DC Students sent to Shock Center

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The Numbers: DCPS Week 1, Too Many Absent

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WASHINGTON − 10 DCPS students reside at the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center in Canton, Massachusetts for special education. The JRC is known for strapping 10 pound backpacks loaded with batteries to their students. By comparison, a small car battery may weigh as little as 20 pounds.

Yelling, cursing or other misbehavior earns the youthful charge a juice from the box of batteries through a skin attached electrode. More than 40% of JRC's students are required to carry these juice boxes.

The District of Columbia has spent nearly $1 million a year since fiscal year 2004 on JRC's services.