Well how about someone answer why a kid would bitch about the programs library not having a copy of a Mark twain book or why a teacher isn’t certified by the state? How many of these kids brought up this same subject with their parents about their local school when they were home? How many actually went to the library and checked out a book? Or knew their teachers credentials? HaHaHa, kind of funny when you think of it that way. If 95% of the kids are getting accepted to their first choice of college who cares if the place is licensed, certified or has any oversight from the state at all?
Most parents see right thru this crap, it is comical to read sometimes. None of this stuff is torture or abusive… ropes courses, building a wall, shoveling snow, taking out the trash, doing calisthenics, skipping a meal or two, reflection time, etc. etc… it just seems abusive because you never had to do anything tough before so of course it seems like torture. To top it all off one of the biggest bitches is that the kids cant communicate enough with their parents while there!!! Most of these kids never talked to their parents for months prior to being placed. WTF is up with that?
If a kid or my kid did commit suicide how would any of us know if it was due to depression, a girlfriend who broke it off, an accident? How do you attribute it to a specific cause? The lists that I see being posted have little or no bearing because no note was left so no one knows what the cause was. How do we know the program didn’t extend their lives an extra few years before they finally took their life? Without the program they might have died years earlier.
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