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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Matthew L. Israel,Ph.D. Executive Director Judge Rotenberg Educational Center, I&#039;m sure you won&#039;t mind the &quot;aversives&quot; you experiende in Hell for torturing children for profit.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Lost in all of these comments and the corresponding article is that fact that JRC has been able to stay open because they have demonstrated to the courts that the methods they use are effective. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;They also use plenty of &quot;positive&quot; methods like rewarding students for doing well. They collect copious amounts of data on the children they serve and it a particular procedure is not effective, punishment or reward the procedure is discontinued. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Every single person uses aversive stimulation from time to time. The difference between JRC and the classroom teacher is that they are effective in their use of it.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;I&#039;m probably going to be slaughtered for what I&#039;m about to say, but I&#039;ll say it anyway because its the truth.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As a former student who was on the GED, I can honestly attest that JRC is not the horror house the media portrays it to be. I can also attest that Dr. Israel is not the psycho people make him out to be. There are several things about JRC that I disagree with. But in all honesty, JRC gave me my life back. Before JRC, I was in and out of all kinds of placements and I was doped up on meds to the point of oblivion. Once I started at JRC and after the GED was implemented, I began living as normal a life as my disability would allow. The placements I was at prior to JRC told my parents that me graduating from high school and living a normal adult life would be nothing short of a miracle. Once I got to JRC, they told me and my parents that graduating from high school isn&#039;t a miracle, its a reality. And they were right, I did wind of graduating and with high honors I might add. It took a little longer and a little more effort that it would most people, but in the end I did it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As far as the program itself is concerned, there are some things that I disagree with, especially when it comes to how the GED is used. However, if the GED were removed, the results would be nothing short of catastrophic. I do believe that JRC treats some behaviors with the GED that are unnecessary and I do believe that the approval process should a little more rigorous that it currently is. I truly don&#039;t believe that the GED is for everyone and I truly don&#039;t believe that it should be a common option in treating problem behaviors. However, when the alternative is self inflicted death, being warehoused in hospitals or jails, or being doped up on meds to the point where you can&#039;t even recognize your own mother, there is a place for the GED.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What really boils me about this article is that the writer exaggerates all the negatives while downplaying the overwhelming positives to the point of next to nonexistence. I can attest to some of the claims made by Rob Santana and I have experienced some of the things Rob has experienced, but unlike Rob, I recognize the true benefits that JRC has to offer and I choose to focus primarily on the good times I had at JRC. The writer of this article is clearly bias and deliberately wrote this article with the intention of angering people and casting negative aspirations about JRC. A good journalist like Ms. Gonnerman could make Disney World seem like a horror show if she really put her mind to it! So to those of you who have already passed harsh judgment or intend to pass harsh judgment, you should consider both sides before doing so. If you have time to read this incredibly long and biased article but don&#039;t have the time to give equal consideration to what the supporters of this school have to say, than you don&#039;t have the time to pass a fair judgment.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(fair judgment doesn&#039;t necessarily mean speaking favorably about JRC, but what it does mean is giving what the supporters have to say equal weight as you would give to what the opponents of this treatment have to say and if you still oppose JRC after doing that, than that&#039;s perfectly OK, just so longs you at least made an attempt to be objective.)&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Who is this guy Israel? He is the front fingers of a larger group financing and using him to experiment FOR THEM so they can control the masses of the WORLD POPULATION. These Psychiatrist and Big Pharmaceutical companies based in Germany...still have an agenda....elimination of the CROSSBREED JEWS. Russia, Nazi Germany, Bosnia, Crotia, Albania, Ser Lieon, El Salvadore, Chili, Hutus and Tutsies where the police were given LISTS OF NAMES OF WHO NEEDED TO BE ELIMINATED AS WAS DONE IN NAZI GERMANY AND RUSSIA, Sudan today, Middle East wars, American Indians, Scots in 1446, Cambodia and Vietnam, World War I and World War II, on and on, these were CLEANSING OF THE BLOODLINES TO KILL OFF THE.....CROSSBREED JEWS.... to purify the race.....&lt;br /&gt;
 Psychiatrist is the front fingers of Socialism.....Socialism is equal to Bolshovic....and Bolshovic is almost Word for word from the ...Talmoud....&lt;br /&gt;
Now you get it....who controls the Newspapers Radio and TV, the Movies, the Printing Houses, the Government from behind (Kissinger),THE COURT SYSTEMS, THE FEDERAL JUDGES, THE POLITICAL PARTIES, who bankrupted our country so they could LEND US MONEY TO BAIL US OUT, who created the income tax afterwards since we were now their slaves and before our constitution protected us from ever having an income tax, who created the Federal Reserve to print our money for us and charge us face value such as $20.00 of gold for paper that costs cents to print, who controls the FDA those 8 little men who protect the pharmaceutical companies that are German owned, WHO IS FIGHTING ...ALL...RELIGIONS EXCEPT ONE...AND THAT ONE IS FIGHTING ALL OTHERS...AND TRYING TO GET THEM DISCREDITED AND THEN BANNED...???&lt;br /&gt;
Who controls Psychiatry a high Number are Psychiatrist..., who controls the schools now and can come into your child&#039;s schools and do electric shock and drug experiments on your children without your permission or knowledge,who created the Nazis and allowed the Germans to take the fall and guilt of killing millions world wide while the group pretended to be the victims and all the while looked innocent and religious while motivating others to do their bloodline cleansings for them, who controls the United Nations and creates their laws and rules...from within...&lt;br /&gt;
Recall Cruchev after the war was over said Russia would conquer us from within without firing a shot...well they have for a long time now...&lt;br /&gt;
we are their slaves....they take our hard earned money, and pretend to allow us to have a few freedoms....&lt;br /&gt;
while they eliminate us systematically by wars instigated, motivated and financed from behind.&lt;br /&gt;
Originally using the Churches and religions to control the world, now using Psychiatry to control the world population, now creating the Middle Eastern wars to kill off the crossbreed jews from Abraham.....another bloodline cleansing....as was done in Vietnam, and China years ago, and Africa where forced famines and wars are killing thousands daily,&lt;br /&gt;
Innoculations laced with viruses to lay dormant until the immune systems are artificially lowered with toxins such as Flouride which destroys the lining of the intestines not allowing B12 to absorb and other nutrients to absorb, creating premature death and open to illnesses laying dormant which make it look like natural death.&lt;br /&gt;
Feeding politicians and religious leaders from behind, false data to manipulate them to fight wars world wide for thousands of years,so under the cover of war the crossbreeds can be eliminated.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Get it guys,.....!!! We have all been had!!!&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;He needs to be SHUT DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;People have no idea unless they worked there!!! I would never ever put my child there. I dont know who the hell gave him the power to treat the kids like that! Some of the kids that recieved the application was a mistake from staff that had no idea what they was doing.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;I must point out that this article by Jennifer Gonnerman is a one sided hatchet job that gives great emphasis to just about anything negative you can think of about JRC and Matthew Israel and gives zero emphasis on all of the positives that far outweigh all the negatives. Ms. Gonnerman deliberately designed this article so that it would anger the readers. She set the tone of the article right from the first sentence, opening with “Rob Santana awoke terrified.” In response to this unfair article, many people lashed out at the school. The very few parents and former student whom had the courage to come on here and tell their story were quickly greeted with snide remarks and viewed in the least favorable light possible. Early on, a former student had the courage to come on here and tell his story. In return, several people made snide remarks towards him, made fun of him because his spelling wasn’t perfect, and one person even assertively suggested that this former student was really a staff person hired by Matthew Israel to pose as a former student whom benefitted from the treatment. If I were to read this article with no previous knowledge of JRC or Matthew Israel, I would lash out at the school and I would certainly waist no time in lashing out at those who dare say anything positive about JRC or Matthew Israel. In June of 2006, Geraldo Rivera, host of the FOX newscast, Geraldo at Large, did a story on JRC, and although in his closing summation, Mr. Rivera expressed his displeasure for the treatment, he equally presented both sides of the issue, which is what Ms. Gonnerman should have done, but did not. I believe that both Rob Santana and Antwone both deserve a fair amount of attention, however, those who support and benefitted from the treatment deserved equal amount of attention, and that did not happen. Those who so intently oppose this treatment either do not have the ability to have an open mind or have established their unwillingness to have an open mind. It is possible to have an open mind and in the end, still disapprove of the treatment. Those who read this article and wish to post negative comments about the school should first take the time to look at the school’s website “www.judgerc.org.”&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&quot;Jewish lifestyle&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Good for you to care about human rights, but please stop with the antisemitism.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;I am so heartbroken to think that the country I am so proud to be a part of could allow this type of child abuse.  I have a sick family member that had the same type of discipline ideas as this so-called doctor Isreal.  She tried similar physically and mentally abusive mindgame/pain sick reward and punishment tactics on me as a child.  I am now 38 and she is 91.  I am a good grandchild to her, but hate her for her internal demons.  I fear she will simply rot in hell for eternity.  I want to cry for these helpless and abused children.  Parents, please realize what you have done.  I never forgave my mother for putting me in my abusive grandmothers care.  She is a sick (I can compare her actions to Hitler) and confused individual.  Please, America, please stop this man and his facility.  Why are we fearing his power?  Please, someone have the stregth to see the damage here.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Why is Dr israel love abusing children and so many ways? just because back then in world war 2 the nazis took his family because he was a STUPID DIRTY JEW whiches that&#039;s what he is why did&#039;t they take him along with his parents he must have been hiding in a bunker haa if I was a naziS I would have made sure I find him and THROW HIM IN THAT CAMP AND MADE SURE HE FRIED TO HELL WITH HIM FOR TORTUING THOSE POOR KIDS THAT HAVE TO DEAL WITH THIS EVERYDAY YOU EVIL GOOD FOR NOTHING STUPID JEW SOMEONE NEEDS TO STOP THIS F######## JEW BEFORE SOMETHING HAPPENS TO THESE PEOPLE IN THIS PLACE THERE ARE HUMANS NOT ANIAMLS IN A FARM HOUSE LIKE YOUR JEWISH PARENTS WHERE IN A CAMP IS THIS HOW YOU TAKE YOUR PAIN OUT ON CHILDREN BY GIVING THEM SHOCKS TO THERE BODYS YOU SHOULD BE MAD AT THE NAZIS THAT TOOK YOUR FAMILY NOT THE KIDS YOU SON OF BITCH THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE FREE FROM A ABUSE YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO HURT THEM YOU OLD RUG SACK BITCH&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Germany declared war on the US on December, 11, 1941, four days after Pearl Harbour. The US announced victory in Europe on May 8, 1945. That&#039;s one thousand, two hundred and forty-four days. We&#039;ve been in Iraq one thousand, two hundred and forty-seven days---and still the Administration has no exit strategy, no plan for victory and no clue what it is doing. In case you&#039;d forgotten, George W. Bush declared &quot;Mission Accomplished&quot; aboard an aircraft carrier over three years ago. &quot;In the battle of Iraq,&quot; Bush said, &quot;The United States and our allies have prevailed.&quot; Perhaps that pronouncement was a little premature. Twelve hundred and four days later, our troops are still paying the price.&lt;/p&gt;
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