However, a 2006 report by the New York State Education Department found that the device was regularly used for minor disobedience and “behaviours that are not aggressive, health dangerous or destructive, such as nagging, swearing and failing to maintain a neat appearance”.

The report also found no evidence that the school “considers the potential negative effects, such as depression or anxiety, that may result from the use of aversive behavioural strategies with certain individual students”.

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This is not some misunderstood school with a radical method. It's been investigated and condemned by the state authorities, the federal authorities (FDA) and internationally (by the UN as tantamount to torture). You'd be foolish to trust the school for claims like that.