DENVER (KDVR) — A room with locks on doors and windows that would prevent people from leaving a middle school room has been discovered at McAuliffe International School.
That information came from Auon’tai Anderson, the vice president of the Denver Public Schools Board of Education, during a news conference at district headquarters Thursday.
Anderson said he received photos and video of the room and locks from an anonymous staff member Tuesday night after a meeting at the school addressing problems with the school’s principal, Kurt Dennis.
“The fact that the room was called an ‘incarceration room’ by a staff member at the school in a work order to have it removed says enough,” Anderson said.
Photos of the lock were then shared during Anderson’s news conference.
One of the photos shows what is described as a barrel bolt latch on the outside of room 121E. Another shows a padlock on a window.
“Students of color were locked in this room multiple times last year,” the anonymous whistleblower stated in the email, according to Anderson.
Denver Public Schools prohibits rooms like this, which it formally refers to as seclusion rooms in its written policies. The term “deescalation room” was also used during Thursday’s meeting.
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