You shouldn't tell other people how they should or shouldn't view something. It's rude and pointless.
Lets place that on the shingle as everyone enters, I will conform if others do.
The problem is that these kids have NO DUE PROCESS. If they are incarcerated in one of these places, they have no recourse. If they complain about how they're being treated, it gets worse and they understand very quickly that any dissent or questioning of the program or it's policies will be severely dealt with. Hell, even if parents get a little inquisitive and start poking their noses around too much THEY are dealt with pretty severely...i.e. those precious, few moments of their weekly monitored phone calls with their kids could be cut off. God forbid you have divorced parents and one puts a kid in a program against the others wishes. The non-custodial parent is denied virtually ALL access to the child. The kids have no access to phone or outside sources to even report anything in the first place. And, very often, the 'dx' techniques the programs use leave A LOT to be desired. Rubber stamping any kid just to get them in the door and get those $$$$. Unqualified staff. Do I really need to go on more?
I am just as frustrated as you are. Some solutions are regulation, giving children access to a hot line, providing the kids with unmonitored phone calls to their parents.
Having a third party sign off on all placements prior to a program/school accepting them.
Let's just start off with some basic human rights, howz that? Like a proper diagnosis from qualified staff, instead of 'diagnosing' a kid with some arbitrary 'behavioral disorder'. How about access to a phone to be able to speak to parents or LEO or the Dept. of Children and Families....UNCENSORED AND UNMONITORED? How about the right to take a dump without some 'higher phaser' watching you?
Way ahead of you, keep going, we agree so far.
Uh huh. You're picking out the most extreme cases. You know FULL WELL that most of these kids are not hardened criminals or hardcore drug addicts. Hell, most are not addicts at all. They're doing hte stuff most normal teens do. Parents get scared, over-react, start doing Google searches for 'help' and end up seeing these bullshit lists of 'warning signs' that program websites plaster all over in an attempt to scare the parents into signing them up. Have you ever seen some of those lists? They're ridiculous!
You are picking the extreme cases also. Parents just don’t send their kids away based on a list they read about on the web. The parents are reading it because they already have a problem with their child who is at-risk. Parents don’t send their kids away for help at $6,000 a month for talking back to them or getting a tattoo (again, I am sure there are exceptions). Having a third party sign off will help prevent these types of placements from happening.
And you know this because........................?
Just talk to a few of the kids, they were not heading for Harvard on a full scholarship prior to being placed, they know they were screwing up and many had plenty of warning and opportunities to get back on track.
This is why you make so many of us physically ill at times. It is NOT imperative that this industry "grow" at all. And increase profits? That's imperative to YOU, but I guarantee it ain't to sane, compassionate people.
No it is not imperative to me because I am not an investor. The investors drive the industries profit stategy. If profits do not increase every year then the major investors will pull their money. Hospitals are the same way, like any industry. If the fund that your 401k is in doesn’t do well they will move the money out and into something more profitable. If too much money is pulled out then the industry could/would collapse.
So you see it is important that the industry keep growing. Pick any company at random and look at their 5 year plan. I guarantee it includes growth and a plan to grow the company. Doesn’t mean they are unethical (doesn’t mean they are not either).
How many of the readers here will except not getting a raise over the next 10 years, zero growth? I would think you would pull out fairly quick and find another source of income. We all expect to do better next year then we are this year. Doesnt make you evil or unethical.
You are a truly disgusting human being.
You are saying that to yourself, you just don’t realize it. But so it goes, I guess. Someday you may understand that you are fighting the wrong people.
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