A recent article from The New York Times discussed the FDA’s decision to ban electric shock devices used to correct self-harming and aggressive behavior in schools. Although the ban applies to every school in the United States, it seems to be directed at one school in particular: the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center in Canton, Massachusetts. The school has students of all ages with either intellectual disabilities or behavioral, emotional or psychiatric problems, and is the only school in the country that still uses the decades-old form of discipline.
