Posted on 03/06/2020 5:50:35 PM PST by xxqqzz
The US government has banned an electric shock machine that is used to zap children and young adults with special needs in a school outside Boston – the only institution in the world known to practice the controversial punishment “treatment”.
Sanders shifts focus to Michigan as Warren drops out – as it happened Read more The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has taken the extremely rare move of imposing a total ban on the production and use of the electric shock machines, known as electrical stimulation devices. It said the ban – only the third such comprehensive prohibition of a medical device in FDA history – was necessary to “protect public health”.
The ban brings to an end a decades-long battle against the use of electric shocks at the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center (JRC) in Canton, Massachusetts. Disability groups and international human rights organisations have campaigned ceaselessly to outlaw the use of so-called “aversive therapy”, where pain is inflicted on vulnerable children in order to discourage them from self-harming or aggressive behavior.
Advertisement More than 40 special needs residents of JRC, many with severe forms of autism, are understood to be on the electric shock regime. Managers of the center insisted the device was safe and pointed out that the use of shocks was approved in each case by the state family courts.
But over the years there have been a number of scandals at the school. In 2007 a boy was strapped to a gurney and given 77 electric shocks over a three hour period for bad behavior – only for it to be discovered that the order to inflict the pain had come from an outside phone call made by a prankster.
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When I was a toddler, I grabbed the car keys and went over to start the electrical outlet in our kitchen.
My Mom screamed.
My Dad said,
“Let the little rat do it. He’ll only do it once.”
That’s how my Dad came up with his nickname for me,
“Sparky”.
Stuck my fingernail into a plug socket as a toddler. Never did it again. LOL!
And yet they encourage eating drugs to mess up your hormones and chopping off your weewee. OK.
I think they just ignore those phone calls to the Capitol switchboard so could we institute this system on senators and representatives? That is an app I’d put on my smartphone.
A humane person wouldn’t even put a shock collar on their dog, but for some reason these teachers, bureaucrats and academics thinks its OK to put them on kids.
I struggled with the violin for years. I did consider at one point constructing a device that would give me an electric shock if I didn’t play a mote properly. I thought it would accelerate my struggling learning process.
I think it would be funny for a teacher to have 20 buttons to zap each student if needed. That could really result in an orderly class.
Also Massachusetts was the first state to ban corporal punishment statewide, in 1971.
I’ll never forgive MA for what they did to Justine Pelletier. We can thank Teddy and Mitt for ruining that once-great state.
It sounds as if HR is recruiting from a pool of their own graduates.
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