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School’s Padded Room Draws Ire July 11, 2003 Several Shelter Island parents are accusing the school district of abusive discipline for using a darkened, padded 'time-out' room to punish children who misbehave. One parent, Deborah Ross, says her son, Jordan, 7, was put in the padded room, forced to his knees and rolled up in a gym mat on the afternoon of May 21. She said she told school officials earlier in the year not to use the room to discipline her boy. The small room, its walls padded with gym mats, was created sometime in January out of space once used for remedial reading, parents say. The windows are blocked, they say, and a back door is chained shut. Ross said school officials have not told her what prompted teachers to put Jordan in the room, and that it has been difficult to get her son to open up about the incident. Superintendent Kenneth Lanie Sr. did not return calls seeking comment. School board vice president Linda Springer confirmed the existence of the time-out room but would not discuss the conditions inside or why the district created it. State law bans corporal punishment, but having a 'time-out' room does not necessarily violate the law, although how such a room is set up, used and supervised could...
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