End the Lie – by Madison Ruppert
Apparently the school to prison pipeline is much more significant than I previously thought. Not only are schools forcing children to be tracked and withdrawing them when they refuse to accept such tracking or putting six-year-old kids in handcuffs for alleged temper tantrums, in one school system they are placing special needs students in a kind of solitary confinement they call an “isolation booth.”
One such room, eerily reminiscent of the infamous “padded rooms” of psychiatric hospitals in times past, exists in Mint Valley Elementary School, part of the Longview Public School system in Longview, Washington.
According to KATU, a local news station out of Longview, Washington, the room has been used for the past four years.
“That’s because the school hosts a special education program for disabled students with behavioral issues,” reports KATU. “The booth is used to calm down some of the students when they’re at risk of hurting themselves or others.”
While KATU regularly refers to it as an “isolation box” the Longview Public School administrators prefer calling it an “isolation booth.”
The picture of the booth, shown above (with additional images below), quickly spread around Facebook and other social networks with many viewers responding with apparent horror.
The original poster of the image on Facebook, identified by KATU as Ana Bate, a Longview mother, called its use “abusive, arguing children are locked in for crying or tapping on their desks.”
Darren Pirtle, responding to the photo asked, “seriously … have the police been notified that this is being used?”
Bate is the mother of a 10-year-old son who is not in the special education program at Mint Valley Elementary School but she told KATU that her son witnessed the placing of several children in the box.
According to Bate, in one case a female aide approached a boy from behind, picked him up off the floor and put him in the so-called isolation booth.
Bate also related another instance when a boy was put in the box for lifting up a desk and after he was in the booth itself he became violent, a somewhat understandable reaction to being forced into solitary confinement.
“My question for the school district is how is that therapeutic if not directly opposite from this supposed reinforcement they’d like everybody to believe it to be?” asked Bate.
“If they are being paid to lock people up, get extra education and work in mental health or psychiatric units, not with children that have minds that need to be explored, need to be expanded, that need to feel safe,” Bate said, according to KATU. (Note: the odd phrasing of the statement was printed by KATU and copied verbatim by End the Lie to maintain accuracy.)
The Longview Public Schools see it in a completely different light.
“People have their own opinions without having a lot of the information about it,” said Sandy Catt, director of communications for Longview Public Schools. “I would not classify it as abusive.”
Catt claimed that the isolation booth is designed as therapy for students who need to calm down. One must wonder why they are using a technique abandoned by the psychiatric field decades ago while continuing to claim it is “therapy.”
According to Catt, only eight or nine students are allowed to be placed in the box because they have permission from the parents of the children.
“It is concerning to us that there may not be a complete understanding of the situation,” said Catt.
Catt claimed that some of the eight or nine children voluntarily go inside the isolation booth for a break from stimulation.
Catt also said that when the door is locked with the child inside, a staff member remains outside the booth monitoring what happens.
According to Catt, the school district had never received a complaint about the isolation booth until Tuesday and “none of those complaints has come from parents whose students went inside,” according to KATU.
KATU added that the children of parents who object to the troubling practice would never be forced into the box since the district requires permission from parents.
However, Bate made a quite valid point, at least in my humble opinion, in telling KATU that she questions the parents who agree to allow their children to be placed in the isolation box.
“I have a 20-year-old daughter who’s actually been institutionalized, medicated heavily, ADD, ADHD, RAD, OCD, among other things,” Bate said. “I never had to have anybody put her in a box. I didn’t have any problems dealing with the situation, so I do know both sides.”
“If you feel like you have to lock a child up, they shouldn’t be in public school,” said Bate, according to KATU. “I don’t think it gets any clearer than that.”
UPDATE: KATU is now reporting that one parent, Candace Dawson, says that the school put her child in the booth without her permission when he attended Mint Valley Elementary three years ago.
“He said that’s the naughty room,” Dawson told KATU. “That’s what he called it. He said when kids are naughty they get put in there.”
Dawson said that she had no idea that the school had anything like the isolation room in place until she went online and saw that Mint Valley Elementary was making headlines.
Dawson said that when she asked her son about it, he became very uncomfortable and informed her that he not only recognized the pictures plastered across the Internet but also said that his teacher forced him to spend time in the so-called “isolation booth.”
Dawson said that while her soon indeed does have some behavioral problems, she “would never OK the school to send her son to this room.”
This statement is in stark contrast with the official line coming from the administrators who claim that parents give permission before any child is placed in the box.
Dawson said that she would file a complaint Wednesday afternoon and the district stated late Wednesday that “it does have new information that brings to light something like Dawson’s complaint but it would not confirm that Dawson did in fact make a complaint Wednesday afternoon,” according to KATU.
More at EndtheLie.com – http://EndtheLie.com/2012/11/28/creepy-isolation-booth-used-in-public-elementary-school-to-lock-up-disabled-students/#ixzz2DtgT7C5t
The kids who are locked up in rooms like this, or put into handcuffs for committing the crime of being a child, aren’t the end of the story.
Every other kid in the class also gets to see what happens to those who don’t obey their local authority figure without question.
Soon they’ll ALL be the willing victims of any government-employed freak who tells them to drop their pants and bend over, but I guess that’s the goal.
Any parent who allows their kid into a public school is really unfit to raise children. They’re better off learning nothing than learning to be slaves.
Back in the early 70’s I was diagnosed as hyper active and prescribed ritalan. In school I was partitioned off from the class with a large cardboard divider. My grandmother used to say they put me in a box and threw drugs at me.
That is false imprisonment! The school board needs to get locked up in a real cell.
Since the cell does not even meet the size requirements of a prison cell, that is also considered torture. Parents better get off their asses and demand criminal prosecution and accountability or get used to the new norm.
Looks like a sensory deprivation chamber. Wonder what kind of brain candy they feed through those speakers?
When I was in school, if we misbehaved, we got the crap beat out of us. While I agree that today’s schools are terrible places for children, the combination of regimentation, boredom, and drugs are bound to cause behavior that is difficult to control. Some parents today will whine and make an issue if a teacher even raises their voice when attempting to maintain some order in the classroom. If the parents don’t like the way the school is run, they shouldn’t send their kids there.
Maybe, just maybe, if they stopped doping our kids with psychotropic drugs, they wouldn’t feel the need for such barbarity.
#1,
That would be a good start. There are many other problems, and they contribute to the idea that doping is the “answer”. How did we survive as kids, without all the medications used today? Be well, Rob
Anything the zionazis can do to to weaken and destroy gentiles, they will do as they are commanded to do in the Talmud. It is up to the parents to stop acting like sheeple and demand higher standards of our schools. The parents could start by demanding higher standards of themselves. THEY can’t give your child psychotropics unless YOU as parents let them. A properly raised unvaccinated child is not going to create problems for themselves or others. It all begins with the dumb down shots and snowballs from there.
Ultimately it is all about depopulation.
“It is up to the parents to stop acting like sheeple and demand higher standards of our schools.”
That’s because schools these days are NOT intended for education.
Their sole purpose is to indoctrinate our young to be compliant slaves in their New World Order.
Any demands made on these creatures would be pointless, except at gunpoint.
Shakespeare says,
“The world’s a stage”.
I say, after seeing this rubber room that kids will be indoctrinated in,
“The world’s a prison”.
Our kids are growing up in a prison in order to learn how to live and work in a real life world prison. How convenient.
You got that right. It is designed to teach compliance to authority.
Meanwhile, something like over 90% of all homeland security grants went to Jews to protect “Jewish schools” that teach their children to hate “goyim” which means pigs. Jews are 1.5% of the US population controlling nearly everything in this country. 1700% over representation at the supreme court and the Federal Reserve… wait for it… 100% owned by Jews. They pay no taxes and it is illegal to audit them yet they illegally control our money system. 75% of all doctors and 75% of all lawyers graduating from Harvard are Jews. Wonder where they got all that money? They are the 1% and they about to run out of game as the world wakes up.
You forgot to mention that about 95% of ALL the media (newspapers, magazines, radio, television AND Hollywood) in this country is owned by so-called ‘jews’.
Really stinks, doesn’t it? Where did they get the money? They used the federal reserve, (which they spawned), to sucker us into letting them print it. Same old formula, and with deceit, bribes, blackmail, etc., our grandparents bought the scam. BTW all, my children have been out of public school for over 20 years, and I grieve daily for the grandkids who attend. On a positive note, though, the kids aren’t buying it. When the nut cuttin’ comes, we’ll live free or die.