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http://www.wafb.com/story/30253902/...ccuses-school-of-using-cruel-detention-method
"My daughter came home and said she saw him standing outside with his arms in the air," said Foreman.
...the boy is shown holding two safety cones. Foreman said her son was forced to hold the position, arms-locked and staring into the sun, for 15 minutes. Foreman said he couldn't do it, giving up when he wiped some sweat off his forehead.
A second news story from another parent at that same school...
http://www.foxcarolina.com/story/30...on-over-recess-detention-at-elementary-school
"They didn't tell us what was going on with our children," said his mom, Cynthia Amos.
She's the latest parent to say the school made her son hold safety cones as a form of punishment.
"I was kind of astounded. I was like, 'I can't see anybody doing anything like this to a child,'" said Amos.
In a 9News report Tuesday, a picture was broadcasted of a third grader reenacting what his mother said was his recess detention. But unlike the boy seen standing in the picture, Gabreil said he had to hold cones while also doing the "invisible chair."
"Every time when my legs locked up, I had to do it again the next day," said Amos.
And he said he got called names by Principal JoAn Cook.
"She usually said, 'You're a little weakling,'" the boy said.
Gabreil said he watched as his classmates in detention struggled too, some of them crying.
"They were talking to each other and they said, 'I never want to come back to this school,'" he said.
This allegedly happened when Gabreil was in third grade last year. But his mom just found out when he opened up Wednesday night following the report.
The reason she's just finding out is because Gabreil said he was afraid to tell.
"They said if I told my parents that I would have five more days of it," he said.
These accounts sound more like scenes out of Cool Hand Luke, than an elementary school.
"My daughter came home and said she saw him standing outside with his arms in the air," said Foreman.
...the boy is shown holding two safety cones. Foreman said her son was forced to hold the position, arms-locked and staring into the sun, for 15 minutes. Foreman said he couldn't do it, giving up when he wiped some sweat off his forehead.
A second news story from another parent at that same school...
http://www.foxcarolina.com/story/30...on-over-recess-detention-at-elementary-school
"They didn't tell us what was going on with our children," said his mom, Cynthia Amos.
She's the latest parent to say the school made her son hold safety cones as a form of punishment.
"I was kind of astounded. I was like, 'I can't see anybody doing anything like this to a child,'" said Amos.
In a 9News report Tuesday, a picture was broadcasted of a third grader reenacting what his mother said was his recess detention. But unlike the boy seen standing in the picture, Gabreil said he had to hold cones while also doing the "invisible chair."
"Every time when my legs locked up, I had to do it again the next day," said Amos.
And he said he got called names by Principal JoAn Cook.
"She usually said, 'You're a little weakling,'" the boy said.
Gabreil said he watched as his classmates in detention struggled too, some of them crying.
"They were talking to each other and they said, 'I never want to come back to this school,'" he said.
This allegedly happened when Gabreil was in third grade last year. But his mom just found out when he opened up Wednesday night following the report.
The reason she's just finding out is because Gabreil said he was afraid to tell.
"They said if I told my parents that I would have five more days of it," he said.
These accounts sound more like scenes out of Cool Hand Luke, than an elementary school.
