Sure, we could try treating the student as a person, but that just makes it harder for society to exact the retribution it so deeply desires.
"The spaces have gentle names: The reflection room. The cool-down room. The calming room. The quiet room.
But shut inside them, in public schools across the state, children as young as 5 wail for their parents, scream in anger and beg to be let out."
https://features.propublica.org/illinois-seclusion-rooms/sch...
Its genuinely hard to read stories like that and think about the kind of teachers that exist in some areas. And its clearly systemic in a lot of situations.
Edit: To be clear, I’m responding to the quote here. I’m not condoning locking small children in bare rooms alone for hours on end.
One room in the article is described as 3x3x7 and another is even smaller at 5 sq feet. These are literally the rooms we are discussing and that you are defending using for timeouts.
Edit: It appears from your edit that you simply may have not read the article and thus did not realize what you were endorsing.
If the school doesn't forget they're there. It's happened at least twice in Washington, where parents have wondered why their child wasn't on the bus, only to learn that not only had the school put them in such a room, they'd then managed to _forget_ the student was in there.
“How US schools punish Black kids”https://www.vox.com/videos/21507661/school-discipline-race-b...
https://features.propublica.org/illinois-seclusion-rooms/sch...
they sure did when I was a pupil, a zillion years ago. It was called "in-school detention"
(I'd say a 'detention' is broader, anything from a few minutes at the end of the lesson to isolation, passing break time, lunch, and after-school along the way.)