Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Isolation Harms Children

Well, duh.

You can tell it's being done for adult convenience, not safety, because the children are forced into oubliettes and then ignored.  When parents lock a child in a closet, it's recognized as abuse; when teachers or doctors do it, that's condoned.  

If it were really about safety, the child would be put in a separate room with a teacher to continue the lesson or a school counselor to go over coping skills or at least model civil behavior, through a picture window or a viewscreen.  Safety may require separation but in no way requires isolation.  So when it does include isolation, you know that adults simply want nothing to do with the child -- or think they can get their way by means of torture.  Require adults to provide interaction during separation and watch them drop the technique like a hot rock.
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rhodielady_47

rhodielady_47

January 15 2020, 19:26:40 UTC 1 year ago

Isolating problem children is what happens when teachers haven't the time, the training, or the means to deal with them properly.
I shall also be politically incorrect and say that it often happens to children that the teachers simply take a strong dislike to.

Abuse is what happens when politicians are allowed to run their public school systems on a tap water budget while the politicians' own children attend private schools that are staffed with well-trained teachers and have all the resources necessary to make a proper job of it.
[This is bringing up a lot of bad memories so I'll stop here.]
:^(

ysabetwordsmith

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ysabetwordsmith

January 16 2020, 04:19:59 UTC 1 year ago

>> Isolating problem children is what happens when teachers haven't the time, the training, or the means to deal with them properly.<<

Yep. Like I said, I think schools would drop it like a hot rock if separating a child from the class required providing 1-1 supervision and interaction through a window or screen.

>> I shall also be politically incorrect and say that it often happens to children that the teachers simply take a strong dislike to.<<

Including those who are disabled, poor, foreign, fostered, nonwhite, etc. The differences in disciplinary action are often garish.

>>Abuse is what happens when politicians are allowed to run their public school systems on a tap water budget while the politicians' own children attend private schools that are staffed with well-trained teachers and have all the resources necessary to make a proper job of it.<<

Agreed. Plus of course, the wealthier kids aren't dealing with things like lead poisoning or untreated conditions.