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Went to the Edmonton Journal today to inquire about any articles written about my school.  Apparently there was an article that came out in June 1, 1993 in the Edmonton Journal, written by the Journal Education Writer, Marilyn Moysa.

Policies needed for 'time-out' rooms ? parent

A mother has pulled her seven-year old son out of a South Side school after finding the boy isolated in a room the size of a small closet.

Roberta Hooymans discovered her son in a cubicle slightly bigger than one square metre [10.8 sq.ft.] when she arrived at Meyonohk elementary to pick him up for lunch.

While she agrees "time-out" rooms have their place in classroom discipline, she doesn't understand why the rooms have to be so small.

Hooymans  said she was also shocked to find the public school board has no policy governing other specifics such as time limits.

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[. . .]sent to the room for forty minutes because he had trouble finishing his class work.

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[. . .]the schoolboard has never developed a policy on how small time-out rooms for regular students can be.  Rooms for students with special behavior problems must be at least 1.2 by 1.8 metres. [2.16 m² or 23.2 sq. ft.]

Meyonohk ? located at 1850 Lakewood Road South ? has 500 students, none of whom have special behaviour problems.

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Principal Jon Loomis says the two mothers are the only parents who've complained about the size of the rooms since teachers started sending students to them a year ago. [So the rooms were built right before I came to the school.]

Loomis says he decided to have two cubicle-like rooms built inside a larger, quiet room adjacent to the school's general office because students were distracted if there were more than one student in the room. [bullshit, I remember too many times being the only one there.]

"the doors on the cubicles don't lock [bullshit, there was no doorknob on the inside] and students usually have a choice if they want to leave the doors open or shut," he says. [again, bullshit.  There was never that opportunity.  In fact, so bad was this, I would have panics if there ever was a fire in the school because there was no way of going out.]

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Most students stay there an average of 15 minutes to get their work done, Loomis says. [Most students, I guess, but what about that minority that spent week-long in-school suspensions in there, 8 hours a day because you can't go out for recess because of the pack of wolves all above omega were out there.]

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I can make the diagram myself - we learned how to make flow charts in tech school, lol.

Just list the relationships and what kind of relationship it was.

Quote from: "Xelebes"

I am a Wayne K follower.  Met him on the discussions that would return on AbsoluteWrite.  I just got too curious.  I was absolutely stunned when I found the website listing so many questionable programs over the years.

Were you in a program?

No, but I did experience institutional abuse (public school) when Asperger's was not a widely recognised neurodevelopmental disorder.  I do have experience with locked cubicles, having to stay in them 8 hours at a time, 5 days a week and be neglected during fire drills while in these cubicles.  I do understand that terror.

I am a Wayne K follower.  Met him on the discussions that would return on AbsoluteWrite.  I just got too curious.  I was absolutely stunned when I found the website listing so many questionable programs over the years.

There are a few here who are internet shouting.  It wasn't you none-ya, but it might be of some use to let you know that what you said in the one or two posts prior did come across as snide from the POV of an observer, not a participant in the conversation.

Isn't the attacking of others part of the therapy you guys endured?  Maybe it would be wise to point that out.  Shouting down people is not ever the answer when approaching these wrongs.