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Ryan 31 August 2007 Bizzare and Offbeat, IDIOT, strange 2 Comments

The Judge Rotenberg Education Center a private behavior modification school in Canton, MA routinely shocks their pupils. Some children have been shocked thousands of times a day, and several children have died at the school. Matthew Israel, the schools director is paid $400,000 a year to shock children. Children have shock apparatuses attached to them and sometimes they misfire.

In June 2006 the New York State Education Department went in and observed the school. They compiled a 26 page report of evidence that damned the school.

*Staff shock kids for “nagging, swearing, and failing to maintain a neat appearance” and once threatened to shock a girl who sneezed and then asked for a tissue.
* Some students must “earn” meals by not displaying certain behaviors. Otherwise they are “made to throw a predetermined caloric portion of their food into the garbage.”
* When students enter and leave the school each day, “almost all” are wearing some type of restraints, such as handcuffs or leg shackles.
* “Students may be restrained”–on a four-point restraint board or chair–”for extensive periods of time (e.g. hours or intermittently for days).”
* Some students are shocked while strapped to the restraint board.
* A “majority” of employees “serving as classroom teachers” are “not certified teachers.”
* Rotenberg’s marketing reps bestow presents on prospective families–”e.g. a gift bag for the family, basketball for the student.”
* Although the center has described its shock device as “approved” by the fda in its promotional materials, it “has not been approved.”
* The facility collects “comprehensive data” on behaviors it seeks to eliminate, but “there was no evidence of the collection of data on replacement or positive behaviors.”
* The facility makes no assessment of the “possible collateral effects of punishment such as depression, anxiety, and/or social withdrawal.”

I am disgusted with what this “school”, how it can even call itself such, can do this. I plan on contacting the Attorney General of MA and reporting this as child abuse. How can this school continue to operate? This is illegal on so many grounds and it is horrible. I cannot imagine being shocked at school. What’s worse is that Dr. Israel is protected, as long as he gains court approval to hook up each kid to these torture devices. New York State filed a lawsuit seeking the removal of these devices and possible closure of the school, school parents counter-sued and the case will go to trial in 2008. Not a moment too soon for these poor, poor kids.

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