Letters: Withdrawal rooms an idea from our education past that has had its day

PremiumLetters to the EditorHome / New ZealandLettersNZ Herald4 Aug, 2026 05:00 PM4 mins to readIs there another way to deal with cannabis crime?Is there another way to deal with cannabis crime?Withdrawal rooms should stay in the pastHaving experienced the use of “withdrawal rooms” as a teacher and dean in secondary schools in the 70s and 80s, I can assure readers that they are not a solution to classroom discipline issues.

They were only ever used by a minority of

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