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Ryan 23 December 2007 Bizzare and Offbeat, sad 4 Comments

For more information about my previous coverage of the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center see this article.

State authorities have given a controversial special education school in Canton a one-year extension of its authority to use electric shock treatments on students, provided the center makes a series of significant changes.  The  Judge Rotenberg Educational Center uses electric shock treatment to influence the behavior of students attending its institution.  However, state authorities have issued some conditions this year that have not been in place in previous years.  Earlier this year, a phone call was received that was “supposedly” a supervisor at the facility.  They called back to the facility and told a worker about behavior two teenage boys had committed.  They boys were awoken in the middle of the night and given dozens of shocks.  The center must stop delayed punishments and shocking in sleep.

The center must also stop electric shocks for “seemingly minor infractions,” such as getting out of a seat without approval or swearing. And it must show greater commitment to phasing out shock treatments, especially for those about to leave the school to enter mainstream society.

THIS IS NOT ENOUGH.  The centers director has commented on my blog before.  I believe he is abusing the children he is trying to help rejoin society.  There are so many other better methods.  I know people who OPERATE private incarceration facilities for troubled teens, they have much better results than this man has ever had and ever will.  They also treat their clients as PEOPLE and not ANIMALS.  The Judge Rotenberg Educational Center should be shutdown and never reopened.  All those families should sue the school for being so reckless with their children and the school’s director should be sent to jail and subjected to EVERY SINGLE SHOCK that those children received.

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