http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/09/school_of_shock.html
This is horrible, even if only half of it is true (and it's not the first time I have heard horror stories about the JRC, and at least some of it is well documented). How on earth is it possible that this facility is still open and allowed to torture their students?
Originally posted by NordlysSadly it doesn't surprise me. Of course, children who have 'special needs' have suffered throughout history at the hands of the people who claim to be there to help them.
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/09/school_of_shock.html
This is horrible, even if only half of it is true (and it's not the first time I have heard horror stories about the JRC, and at least some of it is well documented). How on earth is it possible that this facility is still open and allowed to torture their students?
Originally posted by AimiI know, but I also believe that on the whole, things have become better. There are still a lot of bad things happening, but the JRC is extreme. It may be a good thing that they now take students who are articulate enough to be able to talk about their experiences - not a good thing for those students, of course, but it means more things will get out into the open, which makes it more likely that they will be forced to stop. One of the scariest things about this are the parents who defend the school.
Sadly it doesn't surprise me. Of course, children who have 'special needs' have suffered throughout history at the hands of the people who claim to be there to help them.
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Originally posted by NordlysPerhaps it's in somebody's interest that it remain open.
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/09/school_of_shock.html
This is horrible, even if only half of it is true (and it's not the first time I have heard horror stories about the JRC, and at least some of it is well documented). How on earth is it possible that this facility is still open and allowed to torture their students?
"Marguerite Famolare brought her son Michael to the Rotenberg Center six years ago, after he attacked her so aggressively she had to call 911 and, in a separate incident, flipped over a kitchen table onto a tutor. Michael, now 19, suffers from mental retardation and severe autism. These days, when he comes home for a visit, Marguerite carries his shock activator in her purse. All she has to do, she says, is show it to him. "He'll automatically comply to whatever my signal command may be, whether it is 'Put on your seatbelt,' or 'Hand me that apple,' or 'Sit appropriately and eat your food,'" she says. "It's made him a human being, a civilized human being."
This unacceptable but tolerated cruelty reflects a broader reality: shock (in a broader sense) as instrument of control, as John Berger points out: http://www.thedrawbridge.org.uk/issue_6/describe_the_truth_until_it_st/
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The post that was quoted here has been removedShame it's pure propaganda, though.
After the third sentence, "Bolivia was the first country to stop hyperinflation in a democracy without depriving people of their civil rights and without violating human rights." I could tell that intellectual honesty wasn't anywhere near the menu.