Judge Rotenberg Educational Center - Wikipedia
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This is a “”“school”“” that makes “pray away the gay” camps look like lovely vacation experiences. They primarily cater to families with neurodivergent kids under the guise of helping them learn how to function in a neurotypical society. They use methods like GEDs to administer electric shocks when students “act up”, long-term restraints (which the students have to carry with them in case they have to be “conditioned”), solitary confinement, sensory deprivation and food deprivation. I’d highly recommend reading the entire article, especially the parts about behavioral modification, controversies, litigation, and work culture. It’s so much worse than you can imagine. I wanted to quote parts of the article to highlight how bad it is, but I would be copying and pasting half the article.

This place is still in operation.

  • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    In a video that was made publicly available in 2011, JRC staff tied an autistic boy face-down to a four-point board and shocked him 31 times at the highest amperage setting. The first shock was given for failing to take off his coat when asked, and the remaining 30 shocks were given for screaming and tensing up while being shocked. The boy was later hospitalized with third degree burns and acute stress disorder, but no action was taken against any of the staff as neither the law nor JRC policy had been broken.

    Really sums the whole center up. It’s depressing how many years I’ve been following this through ASD advocates and survivor stories.

    • folkrav@lemmy.worldEnglish
      141·
      1 year ago

      The boy was later hospitalized with third degree burns and acute stress disorder, but no action was taken against any of the staff as neither the law nor JRC policy had been broken.

      How the fuck is “burning a child to the third degree while he screams in pain” not breaking any law?!