How do you know these schools are safe, effective and/or even necessary?
If your suggestion led to a child's injury, death or suicide, would you take responsibility for the placement?
I don't understand how people can be so casual about offering private prisons like this lady is asking for a nice restaurant to take her family.
Surreal.
I agree in principle, but please take the time to read my original post, filled with personal disclaimers as well as personal recommendations to stay at home, as well as providing links to other people's posts on this forum and elsewhere who have described personal experience with this particular school.
I think Rock Point is actually a pretty normal boarding school, whose primary selling point is small size and hence more individualized attention. Not exactly a "private prison," which you would have readily acknowledged had you bothered to read the post or read the links, as that particular issue was brought up by Son of Serbia in one of the links provided. I brought this school up in case a smaller class size was what was needed (as Covergaard suggested), or in case some breathing space was in order.
Son of Serbia went to a CEDU school prior to attending Rock Point and hence has ample perspective with which to compare the two. This was when he made his previously noted post, and may or may not be his opinion as of now. That point was also made by me in my original post regarding this, I believe, and if I neglected to mention that, shame on me for that point alone.
{sorry I wanted to make sure this was still in the thread about a 14 year old girl who is in trouble for extremely minor things, right then}
So why suggest a school at all? If a retard walks up to you and asks where the nearest cliff is at, he has a trash-bag parachute he spent all night making and wants to test it out. Are you going to point to the direction of the cliff?
It's no different with these parents. Think of them like retards, or cattle. They will do whatever you say. So why not tell them to keep the kid at home? If everyone tells them this, and like the other poster is trying to suggest, this lady is over reacting and is quite possibly brainwashed by AA over reactionism in it's finest.
It might be a great 'program' or school or whatever it is. But why does a 14 year old girl deserve to be plucked from her budding life, and sent to some boarding school? IN what reality does this make sense? Only in the fornits reality that you are morally obligated to offer these parents some sort of softer option more to their liking than to serve them up the cold reality that they, are in fact, over reacting.
I've been in horrible programs and nice ones, but I would never suggest it to some strange parent on the internet who says her 14 year old stole something and might of tasted alcohol.
From the perspective of a 14 year old, going from having a free life with friends and a high school experience, to a closed, extremely small school is "private prison", or do you think this 14 year old would send you a thank-you letter from her strict school thanking you for telling her overly suggestive parent this advice?
I'm going to guess ... not.
Perspective people. These are all normal kids. Completely normal. It's their parents who are misguided and neurotic. To save them from a horrible experience such as WWASP, does not require a sentence of a softer program. This equation is dangerous and I can't express how much I disagree with it.
