High Court sostiene l’uso di cabine di isolamento nelle scuole in Inghilterra
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jul/30/court-upholds-isolation-booths-schools-england
di StresWeeting
High Court sostiene l’uso di cabine di isolamento nelle scuole in Inghilterra
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jul/30/court-upholds-isolation-booths-schools-england
di StresWeeting
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I got sent to isolation a few times in the early 2000s. It was barely a punishment, got to sit in peace and work at my own pace. Cant say I was traumatised by it.
In case anyone asks: For dying my hair blue, then when asked to change it dying it neon orange, and for fighting
>Lawyers for the three families argued that prolonged use of isolation booths for disruptive or violent behaviour was depriving children at John Smeaton academy in Leeds of education, with one child spending 83 days in isolation and 14 days suspended, totalling more than half the school year.
How about you control your child and stop being crap parents then?
Isolation booths have some pretty big problems.
1) Some children deliberately get sent to them to avoid work.
2) The number of students you can have in this scenario is limited – I’ve seen schools overwhelmed and run out of spaces.
3) These rooms are often run by pastoral staff, and if those staff are absent, the isolation rooms get shut down, removing a layer of the sanction process.
4) These rooms are often not run at the level of vigour required to make them a punishment anyway. Had one school describe it as a ‘club.’ They end up this way because schools are scared of the financial implications of exclusions.
Isolation booths are not ideal because the sanction system is toothless in many schools. They are a backstop of failing to correct. At best, they remove the most disruptive students from a lesson – the trouble is, the ones that don’t want to work are incentivised to act up to get out. It’s a bad cycle.
When I’ve gone into these rooms, the kids are either bored or socialising. A small minority complete meaningful work. Why is the work not meaningful? Because when a list of students in isolation gets sent out at 6pm the day before, you as a teacher have no real time to double up your planning to facilitate their behaviour choices.
I’d have killed to sit quietly in a quiet place when I was at school…
I used to actually quite enjoy it every now and then. Was peaceful in a way.
Not for weeks on end, but I had the odd day in there and it was good for me. Most the time I deserved it.
Why is this even a question?
You have 29+ children who will have their learning and education disrupted by the 1 who is not in isolation. Yes, the SEN system is broken but you can’t make other children suffer before you fix that.
Why did these parents bring this case? If their kids have SEN then challenge that. If not then try parenting rather than molly coddling.
The fact this got as far as the high court is a waste of public money. Isolation is probably one of the better punishments for a kid, as it’s nice, peaceful and they can spend time working or daydreaming at their own pace.
Schools have bugger-all in the way of disciplining children as it is, so removing yet another avenue would be terrible.
‘Ruling dashes hopes of campaigners who argue booths are stressful and stigmatising for pupils’
You know what else is stressful? Only getting half an education because of a handful of disruptive kids are given free reign. That and being bullied right the way through school.
I wish my old school used these.
As an ex teacher I will say the real problem is that schools won’t exclude/expel kids because it reflects badly on their ofsted report.
This means kids have endless last chances and final warnings and behaviour stages and the school ends up plonking them somewhere out of the way to stop them disrupting the rest of the group.
The cynic in me might also point out that if a child is SEN and comes with some council funding that gets put in the school budget, they are even less likely to get expelled.