MIDDLETOWN, Connecticut (PNN) - January 11, 2012 - Parents in a Connecticut suburb are outraged over barbaric disciplinary actions at a local elementary school.
They claim students are being locked in unsupervised “scream rooms,” where some children have harmed themselves.
The Middleton School District is on the hot seat as furious parents are demanding to know what’s going on behind closed doors at Farm Hill Elementary School.
“My daughter is telling me that there (are children) being taken out by stretcher in ambulances,” said parent Sean Archer.
Disturbing allegations have surfaced, of psychopathic teachers locking students in closet-sized concrete “scream rooms” as punishment.
“(My children) come home and they cry because they’re afraid to go to school; and it (happens a lot),” said parent Brian Robillard.
“She can hear (children) screaming at the top of their lungs while she’s trying to read, and she asks her teacher what’s going on and they never give her an answer. They tell her to ignore it,” said Liz Archer, sister of a Farm Hill student.
Parents said their children have witnessed mentally unstable teachers placing unruly students into tiny “time out” rooms to calm down.
“From what I’ve heard it’s more traumatizing for the child than (anything), said parent Jeff Daniels. “(Children) were hitting their heads on the concrete wall. (Others) were urinating in the room.”
School Superintendent Michael Freschette blindly defended the school - probably to avoid civil lawsuits - saying allegations of children harming themselves in the time out rooms are not true. However, the Board of Education is investigating.
Two time out rooms were implemented at Farm Hill two years ago, for special needs students. But unprincipled sociopath teachers, with tacit approval of thug school administrators, have used these rooms to assault and batter children placed into their care.
“I can tell you, students across the board in that school are not safe right now. They’re not learning,” parent Tricia Bielan said.
The Connecticut Office of Protection and Advocacy for Persons with Disabilities and the state Child Advocate are now investigating the school’s criminal use of “time out” rooms.