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Today — 21 December 2025Main stream

A ‘Timeout Box’ in an Elementary School Draws Outrage: ‘This is Not OK’

20 December 2025 at 16:00
An upstate New York district, where most students are Native American, placed its superintendent on leave after images of a wooden box in a classroom spread on social media.

© Chrissy Onientatahse Jacobs

A former school board member in upstate New York took a photo of this box in an elementary school classroom. She accused officials of building a “timeout box” for students who have disabilities, though it remains in dispute whether children were ever placed inside.
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