[blparent] Fw: Sort of Off Topic but Important: MassachusettsSchool Electrocutes Blind Girl

[Tay Laurie]

Yep, I remember reading about that in one of the books on disability rights, 
that for some kids it works, but it's still extremely apolling.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at msn.com>
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Subject: [blparent] Fw: Sort of Off Topic but Important: MassachusettsSchool 
Electrocutes Blind Girl


> Please forgive the somewhat off topic post.  A while back, I asked people 
> to sign a petition to help get a kidney transplant for a three-year-old 
> girl who was being denied because of her disability.  This morning, I 
> received notice from Change.org, the site where the petition for the 
> would-be kidney transplant was housed, about something just as appalling. 
> A school in Camden, Massachusetts, uses severe electric shocks to punish 
> students with special needs, including a nearly blind girl with cerebral 
> palsy and an autistic teenage boy.  At first, I thought it was too awful 
> to be true.  Surely it was an Internet hoax, right?  But when I 
> investigated, I found an article in the Boston Globe, video on Fox TV, and 
> even a Wikipedia article about the school and its controversial electric 
> shock punishments.  It makes my stomach turn to think that in 2012, in one 
> of the supposedly most advanced countries in the world, special needs 
> children are tortured in this way.  Please go to the below link to get 
> more information and sign the petition to stop this barbarism.
>
>
>
> http://www.change.org/petitions/judge-rotenberg-educational-center-please-stop-painful-electric-shocks-on-your-stude
> nts
>
> Jo Elizabeth
>
> "How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, 
> compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant 
> of the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will have been 
> all of these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American scientist
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