Education minister to ban school seclusion rooms effective September 2019

Advocates for people with disabilities are lauding the Alberta education minister’s move to ban seclusion rooms in the province’s schools.
Education Minister David Eggen will sign a ministerial order next week forbidding schools from having isolation rooms after September 2019. Now, parents and educators are asking how school staff will be prepared to use alternative approaches when a child has an aggressive outburst.
These sparse rooms, often locked from the outside, are supposed to