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Jeff_Berryman:
I talked to a lawyer's investigator recently who was getting interested in WWASP.  Before that he investigated nursing homes in Texas.  The first time his law firm got a big judgment against a nursing home there, every lawyer in Texas became an advocate for nursing home reform.  They badgered the biggest operator in the state into selling off over two hundred facilities and leaving Texas.  He was of the opinion that one big judgment against WWASP or any major player in the BM industry would have much the same effect.  And that will drive the cost of their liability insurance out of reach.

Anonymous:
Or, the Ripple Effect.  Since the schools are independently owned, what does that mean to the individual schools, not just, say TB or Casa?  Would they being going after each school independently.  Then what about schools that are also independent, say the 50 or so that are in Montana?  Would then, the so-called Christian based schools be exempt?  It would have to be one school at a time and ALL similar programs and schools would be under the same scrutiny.  WWasp schools are the target because they are a BIG target...yet all similar programs would need to be licensed, insured, etc.

Maybe when all viable help for parents are closed, then the ineffective state funded schools and the juvenile justice system is all that's left, or OMG - the dept of social services (JOKE) the ripple effect will be felt around the world.

Anonymous:
Bills would regulate teen reform schools
By MATTHEW FRANCK Post-Dispatch
12/11/2002 09:00 PM



Rep. Barbara Wall Fraser and Missouri Senator Patrick Dougherty-(D)

Two St. Louis-area lawmakers have filed legislation to regulate religious teen reform schools, which have flocked to Missouri due partly to a lack of government oversight.

The bills by Sen. Pat Dougherty, D-St. Louis, and Rep. Barbara Wall Fraser, D-University City, would require the schools to shut down if they do not meet standards on health and safety.

As it is, the reform schools can operate largely as they see fit. Missouri is one of a few states that exempts religious child residential facilities from having to obtain a state license.

The exemption has attracted several reform schools to Missouri, where hundreds of teens from across the country enroll in strict discipline programs. A recent series of articles in the Post-Dispatch quoted numerous former students who claim they were mistreated at the schools, particularly at Mountain Park Baptist Boarding Academy, near Poplar Bluff, Mo.

Lawmakers have defeated several bills in recent years that would have regulated the residential programs. Each time, critics have said the legislation would interfere with religious freedom.

The two bills filed this month mimic ones sponsored last year by lawmakers who have since left office due to term limits.

Fraser's bill is the strictest, doing away entirely with the religious exemption that allows the programs to operate without a state license. Fraser could not be reached for comment Wednesday, but her office issued a prepared statement: "Missouri has mandatory licensure for facilities that house cats and dogs. I believe it not too much to ask that our children are provided protections for their health, safety and well-being in residential facilities in the state of Missouri."

Dougherty's bill would also subject the reform schools to regulation, but with some flexibility. The schools would be allowed to bypass a state license, provided they are accredited by a private organization that sets standards on safety.

A similar bill gained the support of a Senate committee this year before being defeated late in the session.

Dougherty said regulating the residential program is an uphill fight because lawmakers are hesitant to allow government to interfere in religious institutions.

But there are signs this year of broader support for regulation. Last month, an advisory group appointed by Gov. Bob Holden to deal with juvenile justice issues called for the elimination of the religious exemption. A spokesman for the governor could not be reached for comment Wednesday.

Meanwhile, an interim Senate committee plans to tour Mountain Park Baptist Boarding Academy this month to familiarize lawmakers with the unregulated school. The committee is looking broadly into issues related to foster care and child residential programs.

Senate President Pro Tem Peter Kinder, R-Cape Girardeau, said Wednesday that he'll wait for the committee to complete its work before determining whether he might support regulating the reform schools.

Anonymous:

--- Quote ---On 2003-09-20 22:33:00, Anonymous wrote:

"Or, the Ripple Effect.  Since the schools are independently owned, what does that mean to the individual schools, not just, say TB or Casa?  Would they being going after each school independently.  Then what about schools that are also independent, say the 50 or so that are in Montana?  Would then, the so-called Christian based schools be exempt?  It would have to be one school at a time and ALL similar programs and schools would be under the same scrutiny.  WWasp schools are the target because they are a BIG target...yet all similar programs would need to be licensed, insured, etc.



Maybe when all viable help for parents are closed, then the ineffective state funded schools and the juvenile justice system is all that's left, or OMG - the dept of social services (JOKE) the ripple effect will be felt around the world."

--- End quote ---


Yeah, just *imagine*---how could humanity have *possibly* gotten along without BM jails for teens for ten thousand years.  If the cults are shut down the sky will fall!  Tragedy!

 :roll:

Or *maybe*, just *maybe*, these kids will reach chronological adulthood and leave their parents homes and have outcomes ranging from being *great* once they're away from wacky parents, or being your average casual weekend drug user with a not so great job and a not so great life but basically okay, or they'll get proper *outpatient* treatment and be fine, or they'll crash and burn and hit bottom and climb back out of the hole, or they'll crash and burn and won't climb back out of the hole....

Hey, that's pretty much like....NOW....  Only without the child abuse, the Stockholm Syndrome, the rotten shoddy lack of education in the BM facility, and the PTSD.

BM prisons are a scam to separate wealthy parents, who didn't have time for the kid in the first decade of his/her life, from their money while selling them plausible deniability--and a too good to be true quick fix--for their own bad choices that made the situation with their kid that they're so unhappy about---that is, when the "situation" is not mostly or entirely a figment of the gullible parents' imagination, induced by the confidence men and women who are running these scams.

It's a racket, it's a ripoff.  It's like the bazillion spam emails that turn up in your inbox selling herbal nostrums---nobody needs them, and the people who do have the real problems the nostrums propose to "cure" will not be helped by the quack remedy---but the quack will be helped by getting a fistful of his mark's money.

The world will be "harmed" by the demise of BM prisons as badly and irreparably as it was harmed by the demise of the phlogiston theory and the arrest of Miss Cleo.

Not at all.

Anonymous:
WWASP MIGHT BE THE BIGGEST TEEN HELP ABUSIVE BUISNESS IN ITS KIND, BUT ONE THING FOR SURE IS IT ALSO HAS THE WORST REPUTATION OF ITS KIND.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0703/tushnet070903.asp

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