No news yet of any schools that water-board kids, but I'm sure that's not far off. In the meantime, here's a story from Mother Jones about a school that takes in kids from several states and uses electric shocks as part of its discipline system:
School of Shock. The pictures of the kids are to prevent them from shocking the wrong person.
Comments
I remember when a Presidential candidate in 1992 shocked a mentally retarded kid pretty severely. So severely that, as I remember, he died. These are terrible practices that you report on here. Thanks for getting them out in the open. I just wanna remind readers that this is nothing new and the abuse has come from across ideological spectrum.
Posted by: Charles Barone | October 23, 2007 9:04 AM
Ms. Gonnerman’s article “School of Shock,” which appears in the September/October issue of the Mother Jones magazine, is an entirely one-sided and biased account of the court- and parent-approved behavior modification therapy used at the Judge Rotenberg Center to successfully treat, without drugs, severe (sometimes life-threatening) behavior problems of children and young adults with special needs that have not responded to any other form of treatment. For readers who would like to hear the other side of this story, please see http://www.judgerc.org/ResponsetoGonnermanArticle.pdf
Posted by: Matthew L. Israel | October 23, 2007 5:01 PM
Ms. Gonnerman’s article “School of Shock,” which appears in the September/October issue of the Mother Jones magazine, is an entirely one-sided and biased account of the court- and parent-approved behavior modification therapy used at the Judge Rotenberg Center to successfully treat, without drugs, severe (sometimes life-threatening) behavior problems of children and young adults with special needs that have not responded to any other form of treatment. For readers who would like to hear the other side of this story, please see http://www.judgerc.org/ResponsetoGonnermanArticle.pdf
Posted by: Matthew L. Israel | October 23, 2007 5:02 PM