This is bullshit, right? www.theguardian.com/education/2020/jan/17/schools-converting-toilet-blocks-into-isolation-booths
“I was told of a school where they were converting a toilet section into isolation booths – and the comment there was it was very handy because they had already got the cubicles.”
It’s the Ban the Booths conference this weekend and so it’s all kicking off again.
What I don’t see in these articles is ‘your kid is in a class with a child who is out of their seat, dribbling a basketball and bouncing it off the walls, when the teacher tries to get the ball off them they dodge and run the other way. No teaching or learning is happening. Should this child be removed from the classroom or left in there while your kid learns nothing and has a ball bounced off their head?’.
The complaints always seem to be about kids who forgot their pen being isolated for weeks. Surely that is not the experience in most schools, and therefore not a reason to call to ban isolation rooms?
Can we just all agree that it is entirely sensible to have a room to remove disruptive kids to which has desks that the pupils can work at and some way of stopping them simply going there to socialise with their disruptive peers? (E.g. dividers between desks)?
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noblegiraffe · 18/01/2020 11:37
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