To think this is outdated and needs to be removed?

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My son's school has an all glass isolation room in the hall with three desks, children are put there as punishment? Teachers and students walking passed

Excatly,

Surely if being deliberately disruptive it is these children who are showling disrespect. Why should everyone respect children who are a nuisance in lessons. You have to earn respect by good behaviour not bad.

let down, how many had the red carpet and still went bad ? especially when you study some of the biographies of some infamous criminals

@Gymrabbit I've mentioned multiple times this is for common class misbehaviour, messing, chatting in class. Of course for violence too. I understand children in rage need to be taken somewhere safe but this isn't what it's about. The kids are left in the box with no supervision and then the students and teachers pass by looking at them

gymrabbit

I was under the impression the OP thought that humiliation as a punishment was not the right approach to deal with young people. I agree. Humiliation causes resentment, anger and conflict.

I've always belived school and society at large should be tougher with nuisance, so I fully support. Tough shit if you don't like it, behave.

So all those here in favour of the glass box method:

I presume you are happy to degrade and humiliate your own children in order to make them behave/conform?

This.

This really isn't a big deal. Don't do the crime if you don't want the time.

they would not need it as they would already have been brought up with good manners and that good grades gets you further in society especially when aiming for Oxbridge

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That completely contradicts your previous post

Unless you are being sarcastic?

Which school is this? It doesn't ring true. Isolation units have staff in them. They don't just chuck kids in and hope someone happens to be walking past and looking in if something kicks off.
School halls are used for assemblies/lessons etc and there wouldn't be room to section a part of them off. It would be distracting.

one can hold different view points that cover different contexts

We had this at our school, we called it the goldfish bowl. Kids would knock on and take the piss, asking what you'd done.
It was more a badge of honour for the idiots though.
There was another outside the heads office.

@Hermittrismegistus

Sacking people in the public sector is not at all easy. Employment law does not allow for employees to sit in isolation boxes in the middle of the office. Take away the ethics of this and if punishment worked, there'd be no need for more prisons

So @BioHives ---- a (very) few criminals had great start but went bad, your little Johnny had a great upbringing and would never ever, ever be bad, all the other kids must have had terrible upbringings and don't deserve any chances so must go in the glass box. Yeah, that'll teach them

If we want children to behave, maybe adults should lead the way first. From politicians to crime stats... fix that with your box

I don't understand how we are still blaming the inherent problems of the school system on the very children it is failing.

I've worked in offices with all glass partitions.

Per the psycho posters above I was being abused. Must update boss..

I would happily have thrown rotten food (no shortage of that in school canteens) at the kids who disrupted my education on a daily basis.

Oxbridge are really looking for this depth of reasoning. You should give it a go!

Modern offices have had these glass-walled boxes for years. They call them "meeting rooms"

I don’t think it’s a big deal. Stops the nightmares distracting others. Does not require a separate member of staff to supervise. Makes offending child feel mildly uncomfortable. Doesn’t injure them or cause lasting harm. What’s not to like?

Is it possibly from covid?

bazaar that the first thing that comes to mind is misbehavior.
what about a child that missed a class exam and needs to re-write it without distraction? a small group of students that need to work on some project together, i could see the space being very useful for a multitude of reasons not shame
to me it sounds like a much better situation than sending someone to the "office" or to the "library" when staffing may not be necessary or needed.

oddly their are families for whom your ideas of detention, report card commentary etc would be totally ineffective and suspension inappropriate.