School officials give seclusion rooms names like a blue room or cool-down room. Special needs students are put in these rooms to control their behavior. Cottonwood, Ardmore and Edmond schools have lawsuits filed against them because parents don’t think the rooms are a safe way of controlling the students. According to a report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office students have been injured or even died in seclusion rooms.
Special needs students are put in seclusion rooms to control their behavior.
Some Oklahoma school officials say they are used only in extreme circumstances if the student is violent. In some schools, the rooms have no furniture. Some have a beanbag chair and a lock on the door. Some rooms are large enough so the student can sit or lie down and the lock has to automatically disengage in an emergency in case of fire.
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