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does this sound at all true?

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joe dirt:
Where are students from, and how are they referred to HLA?

Our students are from all across the country and even from outside the USA, South America, Canada, Grand Cayman, etc. Most are referred by educational consultants, although in some cases a child's parents have done their own research and decided that HLA fits their child's needs. Our students are not court-ordered to HLA and do not include violent or severely disturbed children.

-from the hla website

Troll Control:
No,in fact it's a blatant lie.  HLA does accept court-ordered kids.  Their staff have come on this site and admitted as much.  One says she mailed out progress reports to probation officers and another said outright they do take mandated kids.

RobertBruce:
Unless things have dramatically changed yes it is very much a lie.

They not only accept court ordered kids but the majority of those kids are sent there for violent offenses.

Now the HLA puppets will tell you they dont really accept court ordered kids, because the kid has a choice between jail or HLA.

But common sense will tell you they are playing with semantics and they do in fact take court ordered kids. In fact they encourage it because it is that much harder for a court ordered kid to get pulled.

In fact in my experience they not only accept them, but they will often try and get non court ordered kids court ordered once they arrive.

Deborah:
From the thread "Court Ordered..HLA"
http://fornits.com/wwf/viewtopic.php?to ... =20#156114

It is not actually a lie. What a judge will often do is suspend a childs sentence until they complete the program. If the family does not want to take this alternative, the child will then be ordered to a locked facility. Judges often like to give this option for kids who have committed a minor crime but obviously do not belong in a locked facility. That is why they offer HLA as an OPTION, not an order.

Kids will come in saying, and possibly truly thinking, that they are court ordered, when technically that is not the case.
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Anonymous:
Exactly.

Its just playing with semantics, nothing more.

In fact I doubt even the judges who send the kids there would call it anything other than court ordered.

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