The Judge Rotenberg Center is a school in which they teach various people with disabilities. They use extreme methods of discipline including electric shocks…. yes I said electric shocks. The US Department of Justice in now investigating the school. According to the complaint received by the Justice Department:
While there are examples of the use of prolonged seclusion and unnecessary restraint in schools and residential facilities across the country, studies prepared by government agencies and investigative reports that have appeared in the media suggest that the Judge Rotenberg Center uses these procedures as well as painful electric shock and food deprivation. According to public sources, residents of the Judge Rotenberg Center receive painful electric shocks for behaviors as innocuous as stopping work for more than ten seconds, getting out of their seats, interrupting others, or whispering . In the view of the undersigned, the use of painful and dehumanizing behavioral techniques violates all principles of human rights.
The US Department of Justice has responded to the complaint and is investigating the school for violations of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA):
The Department of Justice has received your complaint alleging that the Judge Rotenberg Center has violated title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), 42 U.S.C. §§ 12181-12189. This office has opened a routine investigation of the complaint.
In my opinion this should be a no-trainer. The school uses electric shock and food deprivation to discipline its students. Are we even allowed to do this to terrorists or prisoners? No, so why can we do it students? Whats your opinion?
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JREC being investigated? About bleeding time!
As for the methods they use there … psychologically, they are actually very poor methods of working with anybody… punishment-based regimes basically have success rates of very mediocre to bugger all. So why use them?
Plus, from the ethical point of view…
It’s torture, which has a psychological dimension too. That regime doesn’t help people to control their behavioural responses… it scares and scars them into submission.
It is – and I use this term very rarely – evil.
To be honest I’m surprised this has not gotten more press attention.
Is this that same place where supervisors shocked a student because someone called from the outside claiming to be a teacher and claiming to have seen the student acting up on a security camera?