[whylie]

My close friend quit teaching because they were spending more time dealing with wild children than lecturing. Special needs children are now woven into the general school population and the burden to accommodate them is put onto the teacher, who may have little to no training on how to deal with them. Children adverse to learning will act out intentionally just to be sent to these isolation rooms; I have seen it myself. To top it off many of these children are on ADHD medication which doesn't benefit anyone either when it's fueling these outbursts.

Personally I blame the parents, and I can assure you they are more than happy to drop Billy off at school even if he gets locked in an undocumented isolation room all day because they want nothing to do with him either, leaving the teacher to become a parent as well. This is the result of poor child rearing and it has had a devastating effect on the quality of learning in public schools. If anyone should feel guilty it should be the parents, but they don't and that's the problem.

Your last comment is irrelevant to the topic and dishonest - I actually think you really don't understand the situation at all.

[leonixyz]

I totally understand and agree with your analysis of the problem, but I think blaming other people wouldn't make me feel better if I were in your shoes.

I think my last comment is quite relevant, and even though it might sound provocative, it's deadly sincere. I never thought that in a western country someone could allow this. I also agree that I don't know the situation so well, but discovering the existence of this practice in the US (and most importantly the fact that it is going on since so much time - accepted by the population) is a step forward in understanding your "culture".