[Blindtlk] Fw: Mass. school electrocutes blind girl
Michelle Medina
michellem86 at gmail.com
Sat May 26 01:26:01 UTC 2012
Ugh!!! Yes, as I said before, this is sickening!!! Thank you for the info Rene!!
Me thinks it's time for the NFB to step in since MASS is having such a
hard time doing it on it's own.
On 5/25/12, Nikki Wunderlich <nikki0222 at gmail.com> wrote:
> wow thanks for the information
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rene Harrell" <rjharrell at gmail.com>
> To: "Blind Talk Mailing List" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 7:39 PM
> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Fw: Mass. school electrocutes blind girl
>
>
> Hi all!
>
> I saw this come up in my email, I wanted to add some information that might
> be useful to the discussion.
>
> First all, I grew up in Massachusetts and in my pre-mommy life, I worked as
> an educational liaison/advocate for kids committed to the custody of the
> Massachusetts Department of Youth Services. There are actually several
> Rotenberg Centers in Massachusetts, run by different organizations for very
> different purposes, Judge Rotenberg must have been a popular guy! I married
> a military officer, so I left for eight years, but I have been back for a
> little less than a year in MA.
>
> The one being spoken of here is the Judge Rotenberg Center is Canton, MA.
> They have been the JRC for as long as I have known, and I do not believe
> they have operated under any other name. They have a long, sordid history
> of controversy and there have been several unsuccessful attempts to have
> them closed. The last big push to shut them down came in 2001-2002 when I
> was still working for the Department, and it generated a lot of news and a
> lot of concerted organized advocacy to get this school closed, but they
> weathered through the period of publicity, laid low out of the news for a
> while, and kept right on going.
>
> The article posted originally is from the last great outcry to close JRC,
> but this is actually still a very, very VERY current issue. There was just
> a settlement between the JRC and the family of an autistic boy who was
> repeatedly shocked as "discipline". His family caught it on video, of him
> being shocked over thirty times and screaming for help. They settled out of
> court in April, but it has once again begun a small, not very well
> publicized but still very genuine effort to try once again to get JRC
> closed, or to ban them from using "aversive therapy" as a tool. Anderson
> Cooper covered this most recent case on A360 a few days ago, and here is a
> link
> http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/22/tonight-on-ac360-school-treats-autistic-students-with-electric-shocks/?hpt=ac_mid
>
> One of the people leading the current charge against the JRC is Senator
> Brian A. Joyce, who is the Massachusetts state senator who is elected and
> serves on behalf of Canton, where the Rotenberg Center is located. He is an
> outspoken critic of their practices and has introduced legislation to have
> the practice banned, though right now that legislation hasn't gone anywhere
> in the House.
>
> Sen. Joyce is actually going to do a live chat on a local Canton website on
> June 1st from 11:30-12:30 pm. You can see the details for that chat here:
> http://canton.patch.com/articles/live-chat-with-sen-brian-a-joyce-on-the-judge-rotenberg-center
>
> Anyone who is interested in protecting the rights of disabled children to
> be free from abuse in their school environments should definitely think
> about submitting a question, joining the live chat, or writing Sen. Joyce
> directly. Of course, voices from Massachusetts itself are especially
> valuable and welcoming.
>
> Part of the long standing problem in affecting change at the Judge
> Rotenberg Center is not only their firm belief in aversive "therapy", but
> also in recruiting families who are willing to buy into and support their
> use of aversive therapy. Make no mistake, they are very deliberate in this
> and in their political strategy.... as evidenced by the fact that they are
> still around, and still doing this to children right up to May 25th, 2012.
>
> It will not stop without a concerted, systemic and sustained effort to make
> it stop. I really hope that with Sen. Joyce leading the charge, there is a
> real chance at getting this banned in the next legislative session, but it
> is going to take a lot more voices than just Sen. Joyce in order to make
> that happen.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Rene H.
> Mom to five amazing wonderkids, including delightful Miss Clare, age 10,
> Retinopathy of Prematurity, autism, developmental delay
>
> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Chris Nusbaum
> <dotkid.nusbaum at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Wow!! I sincerely hope and pray that this is not true, but if it is, this
>> is very wrong, and I believe that all blind people should sign this
>> petition! As a matter of fact, to me, this isn't really a blindness
>> issue;
>> it is an issue of child abuse! Isn't child abuse a criminal offense? I
>> wonder, assuming this is true, how in the world this school got away with
>> this sort of treatment legally? Some kind of loophole, I assume.
>>
>> Chris Nusbaum
>>
>> "For we walk by faith, not by sight."
>> 2 Corinthians 5:7
>>
>> Sent from my BrailleNote
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Sherri" <flmom2006 at gmail.com
>> To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;
>> sent: Mon, 21 May 2012 07:26:12 -0400
>> Subject: [Blindtlk] Fw: Mass. school electrocutes blind girl
>>
>> I am passing this along in hopes that all will sign. This is just
>> unbelievable. Even my County Disability Coordinator shared this.
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Sherri
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Samme.Ripley at ocfl.net
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 12:06 PM
>> Subject: FW: Mass. school electrocutes blind girl
>>
>>
>> Sharing………………..this video can be very compelling for those familiar with
>>
>> electric shocking of disabled students in past years.
>>
>>
>>
>> …Samme
>>
>>
>>
>> From: Sherri [mailto:flmom2006 at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2012 6:00 PM
>> To: Ripley, Samme
>> Subject: Fw: Mass. school electrocutes blind girl
>>
>>
>>
>> Do you know anything about this? This is outrageous if it's true!
>>
>>
>>
>> Sherri
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>
>> From: Jon Perri, Change.org
>>
>> To: flmom2006 at gmail.com
>>
>> Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2012 4:39 PM
>>
>> Subject: Mass. school electrocutes blind girl
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> VIDEO: Special needs student electroshocked. Tell his
>> Massachusetts school to stop using electroshock devices on children.
>>
>>
>>
>> Sign Gregory's Petition
>>
>>
>>
>> Sherri -
>>
>> In 2002, a special needs student named Andre McCollins was
>> allegedly strapped down and electrocuted for hours, leaving him with
>> permanent brain damage, all because he refused to take off his jacket.
>> The
>> people torturing Andre were officials at his school. You can watch what
>> happened on video.
>>
>> The video was shot at a Massachusetts school for special needs
>> kids called the Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC). Gregory Miller used to be
>> a
>> teacher there, and he says electrocuting kids as punishment is extremely
>> common -- even for minor offenses like raising your hand to go to the
>> bathroom.
>>
>> "A non-verbal, nearly blind girl with cerebral palsy was
>> shocked
>> for attempts to hold a staff member's hand -- her attempts to communicate
>> and to be loved," Gregory says.
>>
>> Gregory desperately wants to help the kids at the JRC - that's
>> why he started a petition on Change.org demanding that the JRC stop using
>> electroshock to punish kids. Click here to add your name.
>>
>> Gregory says the JRC's founder created electroshock devices
>> which are even stronger than police stun guns to punish students for bad
>> behavior. An official at the United Nations said that using these
>> devices
>> on
>> children is considered torture.
>>
>> According to the Boston Globe, the JRC’s founder resigned after
>> being charged with misleading a grand jury by destroying video footage of
>> other students being shocked.
>>
>> Gregory believes that if thousands of people sign his petition,
>> his former bosses will capitulate in the intense pressure generated by a
>> national spotlight.
>>
>> Click here to sign Gregory's petition demanding that the JRC
>> immediately cease its practice of punishing special needs kids with
>> electroshock devices.
>>
>> Thanks for being a change-maker,
>>
>> - Jon and the Change.org team
>>
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