Crank Call Orders Students into Electroshock

[lnxguru]

BOSTON (AP) - State officials are investigating complaints that at least two teenagers were given electric shock treatments at a residential center for people with special needs because someone telephoned fake orders to the staff.

Initial investigations showed that a former student at the Judge Rotenberg Education Center called in the orders on Aug. 26, Cindy Campbell, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Early Education and Care, said Monday. Center officials reported the incident the following day, she said.

Source: AP via Breitbart (http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8TK16I00&show_article=1)

The "school" uses electroshock treatment as punishment and behavioral therapy for it's "very deeply emotionally disturbed" students.

[Azeron]

THE FUCK?

Electroshock treatment has pretty much stopped in most parts of the world since the sixties, and is only supposed to be used in some rare cases of severe depression with informed consent. Using it as a behavioral tool or even as a punishment is unacceptable.

Someone show these people One Flew over the cuckoo's nest please.

[EuPHoriC PoisoN]

I may be mis-informed, but I thought that Japan still used electroshock regularly in it's classrooms as punishment. :confused:

[Veritas347]

Wow thats ridiculous I think that is a little over the top. They shouldn't be able to do that to someone and get away with it.

[Danny Dibo]

Holy crap!

And I thought a "Open-palmed Backhand"
In Mr. Pimpingtons 7th grade class was bad!

[deathbypig37x]

Holy crap!

And I thought a "Open-palmed Backhand"
In Mr. Pimpingtons 7th grade class was bad!

Ummmm...okay how am I supposed to follow that up? :P

Anywho, I don't think it's right to use electroshock treatment, but if no one is getting upset about it in the article, I guess that's how they do things.
Weird.