You are letting you disdain for some people and schools screw up you logic. The good still far outweighs the bad at these schools.
Sources for this please?
If someone were to weigh the TBS's side by side to the public sector schools the safety scale would tip heavily towards the Private schools. Every school out there is going to experience a suicide attempt, drug overdose, sexual abuse by a superior, death etc.. It is just a matter of time, the trick is to determine which are safer, what policies they have in place and the best match for ones child.
These schools market themselves
as the safer alternative. Smaller classes, more individualized attention, therapists, counselors etc. etc. They market themselves as 'therapeutic' but then run from that label if anyone tries to bring them into compliance with existing regulations. They use coercive tactics, emotional blackmail and abuse and if
that doesn't work, physical force. Then they justify this all by saying that the kids are out of control and deserve this. It's their 'wake-up call' or 'forcing them to confront their own demons' or whatever other euphemism you want to use. It all boils down to the same peer-culture/pressure philosophy. Break 'em down, build 'em up. And no, I don't see any real difference between Straight and the vast majority of these places that I've read about and researched. I've said it before, I'll say it again.....same shit, slightly different wrapper.
Take a look at our public sector, are our kids safe in the public school system? No. Are they safer in a TBS setting, it is ovwewhelmingly Yes !!
Please back this statement up with something other than your opinion.
But unfortunately we hear from more of the unhappy experiences than the successful ones.
:roll:
Just ask anyone in a customer service department of any store how many people call in to say how happy they are with their new purchase. You would hear 99% who call are unhappy. Does this mean 99% of the people who purchase products are unhappy with their purchase?
Not even a comparison.
Do you see my point?
We cant take a full spectrum across the board position based on a few scattered data points.
Sorry DJ its just not there.
I see the point you're
trying to make. It just isn't cutting it though.