Padded box for students

I think it's unfair to everyone and cruel to the children with special needs to keep mainstreaming them. They call them special needs for a reason--their needs can't be met in the average classroom. It's ridiculous to mix them with kids that don't have such problems and everyone's education suffers. In trying to be compassionate and "normalize" these kids' educational experience we are only insuring that everyone suffers. Putting a child in a padded room rather than in an environment that would suit his/her needs is cruel.

Padded rooms aren't that bad, but I don't think that a padded box would be any fun. They seem pretty small. Actually, I have been in a padded room before and I liked it because if I was angry or mad about something, I could just punch the wall without worrying about doing damage to myself or the wall. Many of my friend highly recommend them for the same reason I do, it's just a great way to get your emotions out. If you are having a bad day, a padded room really is the way to go. Parents usually have padded rooms for children who have mental disabilities and mental health issues because they do work for children who are very violent, and I mean very violent. My nephew was a violent kid, and I really do think he would have benefited from a padded room because of how many people he would hit in one day. This was a child who could not be controlled. No matter how many times people told him "no" or "don't do that" he would do it anyway, and boy could that kid hit and kick. He was lucky that I am a very tough woman and that I could take anything he threw at me. When it comes to violent kids, especially children with special needs or mental health issues, you have to have something because sometimes talking to them just won't work, and psych medications for children can be a Catch-22, so you need to have something to keep them from hurting themselves and others. A padded room probably wouldn't be a bad idea. We only talking about a few minutes to a hour and only for time outs.

I think that there has to be a better way to be prepared than creating a padded room. I think that with autism becoming more common, schools should make certain considerations. Trained professionals would be one really good option. I think that autism goes highly ignored when it comes to government consideration where schools are concerned. These children can often be functional and active in society if they are taught properly.

This is something that is totally wrong and something that is uncalled for in any school district. When I was in college I did some volunteer work at a preschool that was really close to my college and we worked with children of all different abilities. We had some children that were autistic and we had some children that had Down's syndrome and then we had children that were normally able as well. We tried to never treat the children differently, but knew that there was a different degree of patience that was needed for some of the kids. A padded room, however, would have never been something that we would have done.

Didn't seem right in this situation. If the teachers felt ill prepared though and there was a threat of someone getting hurt I can understand why they took this step to keep everyone safe.

Oh that's too cruel!!!It shouldn't be a right thing to do which even a kid doesn't behave well. He should be disciplined in a calm way not in a violent way.