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Second Nature Wilderness Program

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TheWho:

--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---I don't get it. How do they get parents to enroll their child in a program that will automatically cause an already struggling student to fall even further behind in school? Unless the child is registered with the school district as a homeschooler, how can this even be legal?


--- Quote ---Now I'm curious: Why do you ask?
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Several aquaintances have sent their children to Second Nature or Katherine Free. It sounded weird to me but I just assumed I didn't understand it. I thought maybe these courses were more like sleep-away camps but where there's a little school-house out in the woods where they do lessons during the day or something.
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Each case is different.  In many cases the child isnt going to school or is heading down a path where he/she wont graduate anyway, so missing out on schooling is secondary to getting the child back on track.  The schooling can be made up later... the school districts have much latitude in this area as long as there is a plan to have the child placed back on a path to receive an education at some point.


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Lain the Odd:

--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---Kids who are sent to a wilderness program have pretty much abandoned the educational opportunities they had at home.  8 weeks or so without schooling is not the end of the world.

The kids can write freely and express their opinions.  They get in excellent physical condition and have a lot of pride in what they accomplish.  Those with serious addiction issues usually are not able to maintain sobriety after leaving the program if they go right home.  

The bunch of Mormons that run Second Nature are skilled, intelligent and caring.
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Anonymous:

--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---Unless the child is registered with the school district as a homeschooler, how can this even be legal?
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Although mounting an attack based on the education- or lack thereof- angle may prove useful, I would like to call attention to your serious fucking problem with priorities.

Let me go ahead and QFT this whole fucking thing here and maybe you'll actually read it this time around:


--- Quote from: "Lain the Odd" ---“GROUP FOUR!â€
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Anonymous:

--- Quote ---Although mounting an attack based on the education- or lack thereof- angle may prove useful, I would like to call attention to your serious fucking problem with priorities.
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I know. I was trying to figure it out from the parents' perspective. The parents don't know about most of the other stuff that goes on but they know for a fact that the child isn't going to be receiving an education. Unless it's summer vacation, I was just sort of baffled as to how that gets rationalized.

Anonymous:
Don't you think the parents have done every possible thing to try to help the kid before resorting to wilderness?  Don't you think the parents tried to keep the kid in school and salvage the education?
What part of THE KID WAS BLOWING SCHOOL are you not understanding? The ONLY hope at this point is the wilderness program which will get the kid back on track.  Taking incompletes or repeating a semester is a pretty minor hurdle compared to jail, death from overdose, being killed in a car wreck or some other similar fate.  Also, in many cases it IS a summer choice.
You guys are really grasping this time.

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