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* WHAT...Heat index values 100 to 109 expected.

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Illinois State Board of Education takes emergency action on isolated rooms

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By adwpadmin

(WSIL) — Governor J.B. Pritzker ordered public schools to immediately restrict the use of isolation rooms for students who pose a safety risk.

This comes after a by Pro Publica Illinois as part of its school investigation. The publication has thousands of records detailing instances in which children were put in isolated rooms in 2017 and 2018. 

The records also include the reactions of the students inside describing how children were crying, screaming, begging to be released, ramming their heads into padded walls and prying at doors.

Murphysboro Superintendent Chris Grode tells News 3, his staff was taught to take other steps to control their students.

He explains, "We’re trying to teach the students to take their own timeouts. To breathe deeply. To use other techniques to calm themselves down and understand they’re getting to a point where they’re not able to control their emotions."

Grode says students can’t grow from being in an isolated situation, so he makes sure his staff didn’t practice that teaching. 

"Usually if you’re throwing a child into a padded room and shutting the door and locking it. It’s not exactly a welcome thing by the students standpoint, It’s rather traumatic," he adds. 

News 3 reached out to the schools in our region who have implemented isolated rooms. They have yet to respond. The Illinois State Board of Education will make determinations on whether the school district violated federal or state special education requirements.