A little tidbit from Milonas v Williams The Case against Provo Canyon School. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. In former students action against private school for youths, with behavioral problems for its use of "behavioral-modification" program, allegedly violating section 1983, record supported finding that the schoolls use of polygraph machine, its monitoring and censoring of student mail, its use of isolation rooms and its use of excessive physcial force violated students' First and Fourteenth Amendment rights. U.S.C.A Const. Amends. 1, 14; 42U.S.C.A. and 1983. Although this was a case where they decided Provo Canyon was operating under the "color of state law" HLA and others have taken in kids placed by school boards and the courts. Not a lawyer but I don't see why these amendments are not appicable even to a BM which doesn't accept these kids. Monitoring and Censoring any mail to parents is unconstitutional and cannot be waived by a contract.