This place looks like the typical scam. How can it be a "school" without even a SINGLE TEACHER on the staff?
What problems is your kid having? Any of the ones listed here?
Students with the following conditions are best served at a different facility.
* Severe Chronic depression
* Severe suicide risk
* Personality disorders
* Psychosis
* Antisocial personality disorder
* Multiple personality disorder
* Dissociative Disorder NOS
* Severe Self Mutilation
* Sex offenders
* Arsonists
* Excessive physical violence
Why exactly do yo uwant to send your kid there?
What it looks like to me is a big scam where people pay this guy to use their kids as free labor on a ranch.
It looks as if there are no classes, no teachers, no therapists (I could find no credentials for Mr. Monte except that he is an ex-marine and worked at some other programs).
They have other kids taking primary care of your kid ("student mentors") and seemingly no credentialed therapists or teachers.
Man, this website raises RED FLAGS all over the place. What's scarier than the stuff listed on the website is the stuff you'd expect to see, but don't ("clinical director," "psychologist," "doctor," "nurse," "teacher," etc.).
Here's a link to their "accreditation":
http://www2.boisestate.edu/nasc/directory.htmYet another "Specialty School." Not a high school, not a middle school, a "specialty school" (i.e. public school academic requirements don't apply). I'd also check with the state of Idaho dept of Ed to see if they are listed there as "specialty" as well.
I'd have some SERIOUS reservations about this place....