• A photo emerges and a Va. school system's use of seclusion comes under scrutiny
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A photo emerges and a Va. school system’s use of seclusion comes.. In the photo, Gigi Daniel-Zagorites grips the edge of a small bookcase, her tilted head peering over. The bookcase and a cabinet barricade the 13-year-old in one corner of a classroom. Two women sit, backs turned. Months have passed since the moment in September when a classmate at Belmont Ridge Middle School in Loudoun County captured that image on an iPad. But many questions have yet to be answered for Gigi’s mother, Alexa Zagorites. Why was her daughter, who has a disorder that hampers her ability to speak, confined? How long was she there? How often did this happen? https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_480w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2018/05/26/Local/Images/SECLUSION_285.JPG?uuid=opsDfEpKEeiAghBaRG0ZuA I went to school in this district and never saw anything like this being practiced so maybe it's new. Belmont Ridge is where all the rich people live
Same, but I also work with people who go to my old high school still and have never heard of it. I'm guessing it's an isolated practice.
it says she has a disorder... maybe this is in the classes for differently able people?
Nearly 86,000 more were restricted from moving freely by a school worker holding the child or by being immobilized by other restraints, such as handcuffs. It doesn't matter what kind of disorder you have, an innocent child shouldn't have to be forced to go around school in handcuffs. That's how rumors spread and it makes the public image for special needs children worse.
There are some people who have episodes of uncontrollable violence but those are rare and they shouldn't be in a school in the first place.
I remember in 3rd grade my teacher (2001) my teacher would make me sit outside of the classroom with one of those isolation desks where they were covered on all sides and just make me sit there and do nothing while the rest of the class would watch movies and stuff. Growing up with ADHD in the late 90s/early 00s wasent great. When my parents complained about it to her she basically implied they were doing a shit job of raising me to their faces. Apparently years later she retired without telling the school so her class was fucked for a few weeks while they scrambled to find a permanent replacement. She was just a cunt in general. Looking back I feel like for one reason or another the district couldn't fire this woman. :V
That makes it worse in my opinion, but sure.
Maybe it's just some autism sensory thing.
I'm not saying its any better. Negligent teachers are negligent teachers. Its twice as fucked up knowing this is a special class doing this to children with special needs.
I've been pondering the whole thing since then, and I just remembered that the special needs class at my highschool had straight up sound-proof seclusion rooms with windows so they could still see out, but it was a dark quiet box where they could calm down. This however is not a sensory box, it's an above ground pit, and would do more to stress the child instead of relieve it.
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