How thoughtful and nice of the prison syst, er, I mean school system to create a room specifically to allow their prisone, er, I mean students to vent their frustration from being held captive against their will.
Damn right, stupid peon sub-human-inferior-age-being mother fuckers, fuck their preferences.
I feel you, I really do. I also saw that you didn't know that particular scenario was referring to a set of special needs students. On this particular topic, however, I think the fact that its intended, optional, therapeutic, non-punishment is geared towards "special needs" students could have a lot to do with the lack of PE/going outside to play/getting exercise.
From what all I've read, the way these areas are supposed to work are as follows. Suppose a child is having trouble calming down and focusing, regardless of the merit of what they are supposed to be working on. One option would be to drug the kid until he or she is a mindless whatever. Another option would be to punish the kid for not being a mindless whatever. Both of these choices suck.
A third option would be to let the kid (not make the kid, because this isn't punishment) go into a safe, supervised environment where he can bounce up and down, jump off of the walls, throw a ball, do flips, scream and yell and whatever else for a short amount of time (8-12 minutes).
Again, from what all I've read on the subject, these aren't supposed to be areas that are closed off. In fact, taking the kid outside to run around seems to be used often as well.
All students used to do this at a lot of schools. It was called PE. If we didn't have formal PE class that day, we went outside to play for about 20 minutes in the morning and for about 20 minutes after lunch. Of course you're going to be calmed down after some physical exertion. It seems like if a kid doesn't just chill out without something like this, then he gets called "special needs" and someone wants to throw some pills down his or her throat.
