The latest example of why children call it the Kids in Prison Program. Click below to begin CBS News video coverage. Text is below the video.
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A Manhattan mother says her 5-year-old son
was locked in a padded room at school, leaving the kindergartner so traumatized
he had to go to the hospital.
Taneka Hall said the “safe-calm room” at KIPP Star Elementary
School in Washington Heights is used while children are placed in “time-out.”
But as CBS 2′s John Slattery reported, she believes the discipline is abusive.
On Dec. 3, Hall’s son, Xavier, who has had behavioral problems,
was put in the room — which is padded with a window in the door. The charter
school would not provide CBS 2 with a photo of the room.
Hall said Xavier was in the room alone and grew more agitated.
“So they put him in the safe room, and there in the safe
room, he then peed on himself and didn’t allow any teachers to come inside, so
they decided to call 911,” she said.
Xavier
was taken to NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital to be examined. The mother said the
padded room, which he’d been in before, frightened him. . . .
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