Your prediction for ?these kids? is dismal- ?will never function normally in society as a result of the atrocious abuse they endured.?
When you hold that expectation, how can you possibly ?help?? How could the kids possibly progress?
Is that justification for more abuse?
So, what IS Star Ranch? A holding facility until they screw up bad enough to go to CYA?
If you can?t take the heat, get out of the kitchen. If the state won?t pay to have these kids cared for ?well?, it?s not in the kids best interest for Star to decrease quality and hire people who are willing to work for little pay. 80%.... 50%.... of cost, what?s that got to do with what these kids need- which is more than warm bodies. And if the money's not there to do it right, find another line of work.
Ultimately, Star is responsible for training their employees. I will never be convinced that an adult can?t ?hold? a child until they have regained composure, without killing them. Even if this young man (most of their employees appeared to be 20something males) had not received adequate training, one would think that this would be common sense. And, perhaps these young males with excess testosterone, lack much common sense. Is it such a good idea to put them in charge of severely distressed kids? What in their lives has prepared them for such a daunting task? Three days...Two weeks, of program 'training'.
With kids 5 times more likely to be killed or injured in out-of-home placements, I?d prefer to see my tax dollars going to assist families who often abuse due to dire financial circumstances,
and/or to parent training. At least in Tx, and in spite of the ?attrocious abuse?, kids seem to have a better chance of surviving childhood at home.
You interested in posting what you believe to be false?.
