This petition was submitted during the 2017-2019 parliament
Rejected petition Being put in ‘isolation’ during the school day should be stopped.
Isolation in secondary school is where a student is placed all day if they are seen to have misbehaved. It is a tiny desk facing the wall with 2 bits on each side so you cannot see around you. You get taken from informative lessons to sit and face a wall.
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There have been many concerns about how this is seen as ‘cruel’. You are not allowed to eat or drink and can only go to the toilet a couple times a day, where you then have to be escorted to and from the toilet. It is like a prison and sometimes the reason for being in there could be something as minor as having a nose piercing and due to that have to be taken away from education and be made to sit and face a wall for 6 hours.
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