A civil lawsuit filed against Milwaukee Public Schools on Monday alleges that students at Thurston Woods Elementary School were locked inside the school’s boiler room, referred to by staff as “the dungeon,” as punishment during the 2022 and 2023 school years.
The lawsuit, filed by parents of three MPS elementary students, claims a former paraprofessional forced their children into the boiler room and barricaded the door when students misbehaved. According to the legal documents, staff would call the paraprofessional to “punish and frighten” students.
“It’s actually crazy that you would lock kids in a boiler room. It’s diabolical. It doesn’t matter how old or how young they are or what grade they’re in, that’s like crazy for a school to do,” Jakiala Jenkins said…