Seclusion rooms: cruel or calming? - KOBI-TV NBC5 / KOTI-TV NBC2

(KVLY News) They are called seclusion rooms.

Enclosed rooms where kids are sent to be alone after having an emotional outburst.

The rooms can be found at public schools across the country, but there is also a national conversation over whether or not the rooms do more harm than good.

Some states have banned the use of seclusion rooms in schools. In Fargo Public Schools, seclusion rooms are not used, but instead officials tell us students are placed in a designated area or corner for the child to calm down. Adding that there are no locks on doors and no padded walls.

This conversation is happening at the congressional level, too. It’s a conversation that could turn into the banning of seclusion rooms across the United States.