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Prometheus18
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25 Feb 2019, 12:20 pm

No analogy is perfect, but it's reasonably accurate. There's no mention of a lock in the original article, anyway. Basically, what we're taking about here is a run-of-the-mill detention room. I hardly see what's wrong with that.



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25 Feb 2019, 3:21 pm

Prometheus18 wrote:
No analogy is perfect, but it's reasonably accurate. There's no mention of a lock in the original article, anyway. Basically, what we're taking about here is a run-of-the-mill detention room. I hardly see what's wrong with that.


If you mean "detention room" as in prison cell, then yeah. It was described as being no bigger than a small closet, with no windows and no supervision (so not at all like school detention, which at my high school was a spare classroom with a teacher/administrator sitting at the front of the room supervising making sure students stayed for their entire detention period and giving them a hall pass if they needed to use the restroom, rather than just locking the door to ensure they stayed.)

That you don't see what is wrong with doing this to children is disturbing.



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25 Feb 2019, 10:27 pm

karathraceandherspecialdestiny wrote:
Prometheus18 wrote:
No analogy is perfect, but it's reasonably accurate. There's no mention of a lock in the original article, anyway. Basically, what we're taking about here is a run-of-the-mill detention room. I hardly see what's wrong with that.


If you mean "detention room" as in prison cell, then yeah. It was described as being no bigger than a small closet, with no windows and no supervision (so not at all like school detention, which at my high school was a spare classroom with a teacher/administrator sitting at the front of the room supervising making sure students stayed for their entire detention period and giving them a hall pass if they needed to use the restroom, rather than just locking the door to ensure they stayed.)

That you don't see what is wrong with doing this to children is disturbing.


The attached article indicates that it was a (former) storage closet with a window. No mention of lock. I don’t like that there was no one there when he called out. There’s no mention of any sort of safety monitoring.