Kids being forced to be the guards of other kids.
In the Stanford prison experiment 1/3 of those given power over others are sadistic.
Parents need to keep that in mind.
No excuse for abusing others at a program at all.
...Or rewarding the kids for "confronting" their peers, "confronting" being a euphemism for narc action. Peer on peer supervision is done for the convenience of the staff. The more aggressive kids help the staff "break down" the weaker peers. What kind of logic is that? What's going to happen to these kids who leave a program thinking the key to success is constant tattling? In the real world, that kind of shit will cause them to be shunned like pariahs.
At the same time, here we have Fornits, with all these people working to change something that isn't in alignment with their values. Are they narcing, or are they trying to make the world a better place?
When do we expect kids to stand up for the right thing? When you--or some other armchair quarterback-- agrees with the premise?
"alignment with their values"? We're talking about kids being abused and too often killed - if that fits in with your values, you're a sick puppy. What exactly are you other than an "armchair quarterback" - you're on Fornits, so what are you trying to accomplish from
your chair?
At PV, the kids are encouraged to "confront" a peer who's committed an infraction by calling a group to publicly denounce them. The kid who was in violation gets a consequence and the confronter gets scratched behind the ears.
So, if the confronter gets out of PV and still has Kool-Aid pumping through his veins when he gets to college, he'll try the same thing on roommates, fellow students, etc., etc. That's when the kid will be shunned like a pariah. Those "tools" don't work outside of the virus-pit.
Fornits is a group of whistle-blowers. We're "narcs" like Michael Moore. We want to stop this carnage, not get scratched behind the ears.
Hidden Lake Academy is near extinction thanks to the efforts of DJ and Deborah, (and literally burnt by ?), The Whitmore is closed, the Sudweeks shamed and exposed, Isabelle Zehnder has been revealed to be a hypocrite and worse... the world is "a better place" because of all this. Not bad for a bunch of "armchair quarterbacks" and there's no question of "values" in these actions, it's black and white, don't you think? If you can defend any of these places and people using your rather unique set of "values", do it. Otherwise, you sound like you're griping because your team doesn't have the ball and is losing massively.
