Darrrington              Reply to this Comment

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This school is a joke. Anyone who would send their kid to any of these type of schools is heartless. These schools are torture, brainwashing and hid the real truth of what is going on behind those high walls. Don't do it, save a child's life. There are other ways of helping your child, this isn't. These schools are a way of HARMING your child more.

Darrrington              Reply to this Comment

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This school is a joke. Anyone who would send their kid to any of these type of schools is heartless. These schools are torture, brainwashing and hid the real truth of what is going on behind those high walls. Don't do it, save a child's life. There are other ways of helping your child, this isn't. These schools are a way of HARMING your child more.

dilusional              Reply to this Comment

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all that you said is naive and idiotic...i went there and your full of it. have you ever been there, probably not as a student. i learned more there than i would have out in the world i was in. do yourself a favor and put yourself in other peoples shoes and think before you speak.

both ways              Reply to this Comment

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I worked there. I was told I cared too much for the students and it was all about the money. Some of the kids would come out of "intervention" with bruises and black eyes, bleeding. Yes, some of them needed a lot of attention, but others were in need of care. Half of the students seemed to have parents that just didn't pay attention to them. I don't agree with almost all of the ways they treated the kids.

Parents Please Listen              Reply to this Comment

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Please listen to me. I went to one of these when I was 14. I spent a year and a half there and I have never been the same since. It is now 6 years since I got out, and not a week goes by where some terrible thought bred from my time there comes cropping up. I understand that many parents are desperate, worried about the LIVES of their children even, but this is NOT the answer. I wont claim that NO-ONE finds it helpful, but by and large it simply increases the distrust, resentment, and fear between parents and their children. Creating deep issues that are extremely hard to get over even in the years that follow such an experience. These schools DO lie to the parents, they get away with it because many of the children sent there have lied to their parents and are therefore considered untrustworthy. Also, all mail is screened and children are made aware that mail with "negative comments" in it, will not be sent. My mother finally found this out much later when I was home again. I could go on and on as to the traumatic effects of sending your child to one of these programs. Being sent to these types of places and forced to handle incredible pain with no support and no one you can really talk to honestly (without being severely punished at least) creates an insecurity and deep-seated fear that can easily last well into adult-hood, if not a whole lifetime, causing an entirely new and considerably more dangerous set of behaviors to form. Parents I beg you, consider EVERY other possible option first.