First of all, if you talk to most people here on fornits they will try to convince you that those kids will be much better off where they are than to go to a TBS or RTC. And I don’t think we would make anyone here happy by lowering the price so more kids can attend.
Secondly, I think you are miss informed that people just send kids away for sneaking out at night or smoking pot. I am sure there is an exception, but this is not the norm.
first of all you missed the point. further demonstrating your foolishness and ignorance. i'm pointing out that there are much bigger issues, and people with worse problems than you and suburban parents with kids who smoke pot, and somehow they manage to deal with these problems. life goes on. some die, some go to jail. some by accident, some for justice, some because of an injustice, but thats life, thats darwinism. survival of the fittest. when a child dies at a program, it is ALWAYS an injustice and is ALWAYS because of neglect. and maybe, if you took all that money you wasted on a boarding school for your kid, you could buy lunch for an entire school for a year. or maybe you can put it in a college fund for your kids, or other kids that need it. maybe if you paid a little more attention to the world, get your head out your ass, and open your eyes, you'd notice everything is interconnected. have you thought that maybe if you get these inner-city kids an education, and a little love, you might just have less dealers and criminals around to mess up, mislead, rob or sell hard drugs YOUR kids?
and yes many, many people get sent away for just smoking pot and sneaking out. i've seen kids at HLA and RCI who were just computer geeks with no social skills. i've met two girls who were sent away simply because their dads didnt want them to loose their virginity, and they had steady boyfreinds. at hla there were about a dozen kids who came simply because they had "bad grades and study habits" bad grades meaning B's and bad study habits meaning an hour a day. they were all pulled fairly quickly, although they should have never been sent there. and at the same time you have violent, antisocial, psychopathic people getting accepted, being roomed in the same room as the geeky kids.
now, everyone knows, what happens when you stick a violent criminal and a scrawny little "average white guy" in a cell together in prison. it aint much different at a "boarding school"
and to the individual who said i was a lying liberal - take your nazi ass and go do some fact-checking.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Lut ... _(New_York)
although i was not aware it closed in 05'....i got sent away in 03' and havnt been in the area since. it really makes no difference, still serves my point.
