So what do we think of this ladies?

[shimmerysilverghosty]

cage for autistic child. This has already been posted on the In The News Board but thought it was definitely worth a mention over here. Have no words really .

We finally got ds3's SNU palce when local planning meant the only way they could keep him safe was w ciker fence at a cost of thousands (school in special historcal area).

I an;t even begin to think about if they had suggested soemthing like this- run, fast as you can, would be about the limit I suspect.

I am not u8naware of teh benefits of restricted spaces: untilm recently ds1 had a locked room (until he smahed off the doorframe to be rpecise) and the garden has a 6ft wall around it by chance, but a cage? For a human being? I cringe when I see most animals in them for goodness sake.

DS1 does have a 1-1 at breaks now, not related but he ahs supposedly been seen off premises in the past as well.

And ds3's SNU base has had to call police recently for a pupil who refused to come in from outside after a break for freedom.

but even so- tehre have to be options. Such as very very high fences.

WTF?

There was a large dog cage in our garden when we moved into this house, and we do joke that we should have kept it, but it's purely a joke, in exactly the same vein as the way we joke that we should strap DS1 to the horse exerciser/turnstile in the paddock behind our garde, or that we should wire him up to the National Grid.

That fact that someone thought that a cage really was appropriate, though, really does have me lost for words.

OMG - is the first thought, then I read Triggles post and I thought if RSPCA saw an animal in that, they would probably prosecute.
To think that people with a responsibility for our children actually sat and came up with that idea - and the leadership at the school let it happen - beggars belief.

That is horrific.

Poor kid.

I have to say though, I have seen really poor restraint practices in a couple of special schools - where training is poor. The money would have been better spent on training staff to support him without becoming so upset he needs restraining.