The last remaining boot camp - not closed because the children "volenteer" to be there - has been portraited in a Danish magazine.
I have found the homepage. It states very clear that the children must apply to stay there. But how voluntary is it?
In article a girl has told the instructors that she needs to phone her mom or she would kill herself. Of course (It would not happen at WWASP) they let her. Her mother lacks the understanding of the harshness and blame the girls low self-disipline. She tells the poor girl to give the program a chance. The girl breaks down and she continues to struggle. She is as it is mentioned in the article heavily drugged by her family doctor and the camp continues to medicate her during the stay.
Why does the mom react totally out of conduct? Something is to blame on the mandatory parents sessions (Sound familiar to other cults?) If a parents repeatily are tolded by other parents and so-called experts that their child was saved by the program and would have ended up dead without it, they would cave in at some point.
So the poor children have no allies. Those who should look out for it, are brainwashed, so they are on their own.
Unspeakable cruel.
Further info can be found here:
http://www.pbso.org/eagleacademy/BTW: The hero of the school is dead. Shut down by animals in Iraq.
Of course, some children choose the army after they have been betrayed by the parents. The camp isolates them from society and they would be in a comfort zone at some army like community.
That is another aspect of such a camp. Providing fresh meat to the warzones around the world. But we are talking about children living as soldiers. Is war not an adult thing?
