School To Continue Electric Shock

WCVB/TV Boston ^ | 12/23/2007 | (no author given)

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School To Continue Electric Shock
Officials Give School One Year Extension

BOSTON -- State officials are allowing a controversial special education school to use electric shock treatments on students for another year...

The decision comes after an August incident in which two emotionally disturbed students were wrongly given dozens of shocks after a prank call from a person posing as a supervisor...

...six staffers at a Stoughton residence run by the Canton-based school had reason to doubt the orders to administer the shocks, but did nothing to stop it...

...the teens, ages 16 and 19, were awakened in the middle of the night and given the shock treatments, at times while their legs and arms were bound. One teen received 77 shocks and the other received 29. One boy was treated for two first-degree burns.

The caller said he was ordering the punishments because the teens had misbehaved earlier in the evening. But none of the staffers had witnessed any problems...

[dayglored]

This is horrible. Bad enough it happened (and yes the staffers were later fired), but the school can CONTINUE with this horror? When it isn't even shown to have a positive effect?

I can't think of a justification for this sort of "treatment", that staffers wouldn't question scores of electric shocks for "misbehavior".

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[basil]

Coming to a police state near you-—and you-—ane you, etc!

[al baby]

Taz me bro university sick but it might help

[pandoraou812]

Wow ...just wow.

[pandoraou812]

ping

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Phi Zappa Crappa

[Vigilanteman]

It is really very simple:

Shock therapy administered against disobedient sheeple by kind educrats for their own good = good.

Shock therapy administered against terrorists to extract potentially life saving information by U.S. soldiers = bad.

[metmom]

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[bahblahbah]

THEY TOLD ME THAT IF GEORGE W. BUSH WERE RE-ELECTED, sadistic minions of the state would torture those who got out of line with cruel electric shocks. And they were right! I blame Dick Cheney and the neocons.

[Bobalu]

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> It is really very simple: Shock therapy administered against disobedient sheeple by kind educrats for their own good = good. Shock therapy administered against terrorists to extract potentially life saving information by U.S. soldiers = bad.

That's a really good point! If these were terrorists, the good people of Boston would be up in arms over the mistreatment... But these students are American citizens, so it is okay to administer electric shocks. Good Lord...

[luvadavi]

We are being transported, in slow motion, back into the l930s of Nazi Germany. They think they can surround us but we can keep firing in every direction!

[acapesket]

Shocked that you all are shocked!

This is the Gay State afterall.

Teddy, John Boy, Deval the Dubious oops! the Doofus..

We have the most educated Stoopid people on the Planet here!

[TigersEye]

That's what my cat said.

OK, I don't have a cat. But if I did that's what he'd say. WTF???

(Does anyone else feel tempted to call the school and report some bad behavior?)

[stylin19a]

it’s ok as long as it’s not water-boarding....

[kinoxi]

"Darn kids.. grumble, grumble they're everywhere..." It's better to tase a thousand innocents than to let one child be 'uneducated' right?

[pandoraou812]

hmmm I would be darned if I was a teen & I would willingly let anyone shock me. I would have fought like hell . Oh well I guess I wouldn’t have had any rights to fight it though if my parents signed me into that place. Shaking my head at the school & the parents.

[dayglored]

> OK, I don't have a cat. But if I did that's what he'd say. WTF???

Yep, my cat, too. (That pic is not my cat.)

> (Does anyone else feel tempted to call the school and report some bad behavior?)

I don't, but my cat made a few remarks along those lines...

[camerakid400]