Senator Chris Murphy: Stop putting kids in 'scream rooms'

[cali]

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) is calling for an end to the use of “scream rooms” to discipline children in U.S. schools.

The Connecticut senator has proposed legislation that would end the practice of physically restraining students or secluding them in padded rooms, after learning that there were more than 30,000 such instances every year in schools across the state.


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Forty percent of the kids that have been restrained or secluded in Connecticut have autism, and a disproportionate number of them have been Latino and black, he added.

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http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news-legislation/198546-lawmaker-stop-putting-kids-in-scream-rooms

[yeoman6987]

1. Wow

I never heard of such a thing. Good he is getting rid of this practice. Sounds cruel to me.

[notadmblnd]

2. Ms. Trunchbull refers to as the Choakie.

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