Massachusetts just couldn't stand being one of the "sane" states.

[scarletbeauty]

Mass. just didn't want to be with the sane states, so one school started using shock treatments on their students.

To make things worse? This is a school for disabled children.

Comments

[illumnaughty]

In their statement, officials claim shocks are used to control severe behavior such as a student trying to pull out his own teeth, gouge out his eyes or starve himself to death.

Yes, just like hitting kids discourages unwanted behavior, especially kids who can't help it.

I lasted up until the part where they admit they use it on 3-YEAR-OLDS. I'm literally choking on my own rage right now.

[juliet316]

[gloraelin]

I think I need something bigger than a clue-by-four. I really do. Because THIS... this is... AND THE PARENTS CONSENTED WAIT WHAT WHAT?

[moonlitdorian]

They've been at it for years, as I understand it.

[malicious_pengy]

There was something like this recently, yeah, but I remember the details slightly differently. Like I thought the last one involved shocks to the back, not to the limbs.

[ms_daisy_cutter]

I'm really late to this, but the Rotenberg Center has been around for nearly 30 years.

Whenever they get into the news, there are always letters to the editor, supposedly by parents of JRC students who were "helped immensely" by the "treatments." I have no idea how true the letters are, or whether the writers are being paid by the JRC to write them.

[dodger_greywing]

Fuck this place. I read a huge expose on it a few months ago, and the things they do to those kids is twenty levels of disgusting.

I can't imagine how they're still open. It boggles the mind.