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Friday, 21 March 2008

Step away from my cause for a bit

I am sick of man whores running wild on this planet. I am sick of 8th grade dropouts doing stupid shit thinking they will be "big ballaz" and strike it rich. Two man whores I want to point out who get the DumbAss of The Year Award are Jon King of Taunton, MA and Dru Mitchell of Middleboro, MA. Also Jon's girl is sooo naive and doesnt know there are girls calling him up everyday to "hang out" and they are constantly hitting him up on MySpace! I am still offended by these 2 boys calling me psycho cuz I have a certain documented medical problem of my own and I am college educated and I am a relationship girl.

Dru's MySpace is: myspace.com/if_ya_motha_only_knew
I think Jon's is: myspace.com/fallenhero187

I just needed to vent!

Thursday, 27 December 2007

Timeline- April 1998 to May 1998 my first few experiences with jrc's methods

I was 17 and on 8 meds when I arrived at JRC still traumatized from my hospitalization at a state hospital (I was released from there in the Fall of 1997) I wanted to get off the meds, finish high school and leave. At the time of arrival I would have been in the middle of my so called junior year but because I missed a whole year of schooling I was still a sophmore when I arrived (I did not know this until 99 and was super pissed to know I would not graduate on time with the people I grew up with). I was the one of the few from Massachusetts, the rest from broken homes in NYC. My parents were authoratative, some leeway, but absolutely no permissive parenting.
My first few weeks at JRC were a blur until the beginning of May,( this is when the houses were co-ed), a 16 year old boy named Silverio was moved to our residence from another for behavior issues. My room downstairs in the finished basement was directly across from the 1 to 1 room and the boy was disturbed and restrained on a daily and nightly basis. One Sunday morning all he did was cry and said "I just want to go home to the Bronx". He was always bused with the students from his classroom to our residence because of the program he was in. High functioning students at the time were in the Walden program and Lower functioning were in the Hope School. Silverio was one in between, he had Asperger's so he was academically a Walden student but behaviorally a Hope student. The day after he cried he "wanted to go home" he jumped off the back of the bus on I-95 south. We got news ASAP and our bus's emergency door was secured ASAP and 2 staff sat at the back. We werent allowed to watch ANY news channel that night either. My parents were coming to visit the residence and one of the Monitors (kind of a quality control person) was at the house. My parents drilled the monitor and the staff on what my diet consisted of, typical chores, etc.... There was no mention of Silverio. My housemate Jessica, high functioning was extremely close to him and was very upset. The next day, the school was closed and everyone was ordered to stay home. Silverio was on life support, and his parents came up from the Bronx to be with him. The psychologists came to the houses. I recall the night before the other housemates knew but I didnt and I said I didnt want to know. The next day I asked the psychologist what was going on, and he said how Silverio jumped out of the bus and is on life support. Jessica started bawling. I asked to call my parents, and my mother asked if I was ok and wanted to stay at JRC. I wanted to just for the reason being I was being weaned off my horrible meds. I went down to my room with my teacher who was helping staff the residence. Our house coordinator came at 3 pm and shortly after dinner we got the call Silverio was taken off of life support. I suggested we all say a prayer for his family. Later that night I prayed at my bedside. Some of the male students and staff helped gather his belongings which remained in the garage for some time until his parents were ready to pick them up. I so blame the staff for taunting him, instigating him and wrestling him every night up to his death. They drove him to suicide. On the JRC site under questions or whatever it is: Is it true 5 student have died under your care? He claims it was natural causes. Jumping out of a bus is not natural causes!
Later that month, I witnessed for the first time the GED being used on a high functioning student on the bus and I was so freaked out about it I pleaded with the staff to stop hurting the student. The student swore or gave a dirty look and ZAP! That I'll blog about another time.

Sunday, 23 December 2007

Time to Vent about the JRC

Ok I started this blog to vent about my experiences at the Judge Rotenberg Center in Canton, MA good and bad, but 7 and a half years after I graduated, I have been hearing and even on a few occasions when I go to visit when I get the time to, I have noticed the students are subjected to worse treatment than what I endured prior to attending JRC. I thankfully was never hooked up to the GED because my parents told the school NO. I never smoked, did drugs or drank because I had parents who WOULD NOT ALLOW IT but some of my classmates would come back from home visits high and drunk and NOTHING WAS DONE ABOUT IT AT JRC. These classmates had permissive parents and used JRC as a drop off place when the parents gave up on them, but when their son or daughter would PURPOSELY exhibit good behavior all week in order to earn a home visit, the parents ALLOWED THE DRUGS AND DRINKING. These students wanted to go home in order to get laid (one former student is a DEADBEAT dad of a few kids) get high and drunk, then on their 18th birthday they would sign out of the JRC for good. My parents got guardianship of me prior to my 18th birthday so I would not drop out of the JRC.
Okay I am going to stop blogging and hopefully come back to add more....