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Therapeutic touch: What is the safe zone at CALO?
Anne Bonney:
--- Quote from: "AuntieEm2" ---Abuse is the harmful exercise of power.
In programs, staff have power over every aspect of the teens’ lives:
* Food, clothing, shelter
* Youth not permitted to leave campus
* Physical and mental health
* Education; intellectual freedom
* Religious/spiritual practice
* Books, newspapers, television, radio, Internet
* Relationships and sexuality
* Work tasks—chores, physical labor as punishment, or part-time employment—and earnings, if any
* Access to communication with family or advocates
* Civic involvement and political action
* And approval to graduate and leave
This is a recipe for the abusive exercise of power. For child molesters and bullies, this is a dream job.
Auntie Em
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Whooter:
--- Quote from: "Anne Bonney" ---
--- Quote from: "AuntieEm2" ---Abuse is the harmful exercise of power.
In programs, staff have power over every aspect of the teens’ lives:
* Food, clothing, shelter
* Youth not permitted to leave campus
* Physical and mental health
* Education; intellectual freedom
* Religious/spiritual practice
* Books, newspapers, television, radio, Internet
* Relationships and sexuality
* Work tasks—chores, physical labor as punishment, or part-time employment—and earnings, if any
* Access to communication with family or advocates
* Civic involvement and political action
* And approval to graduate and leave
This is a recipe for the abusive exercise of power. For child molesters and bullies, this is a dream job.
Auntie Em
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Parents have all the power and control.......
That can occur to any child in any family in America by just living at home. Children dont have to travel far to get abused or bullied. Some can experience it right at home. Children dont have any rights of their own until the come of age. Many children who go to programs gain more freedoms than they had at home.
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AuntieEm2:
You make it sound like it is an every day occurrance that a child would be kept completely isolated without any accesss to outsiders--like that's normal parenting. (Maybe to you that sounds like normal parenting.)
And you blew past the issue of child molesters and bullies being drawn to this type of work/setting.
The kids are isolated for months and years, and the parents are not there to protect their children from abusers who would harm them. Further, the children have no access to outside advocates in order to report abuse. The abusers don't need to groom the children to keep them quiet--the kids are pre-branded as "liars," and can't reach law enforcement to report abuse when it occurs.
I would never place a child in such a high-risk environment. Period.
Whooter:
--- Quote from: "AuntieEm2" ---You make it sound like it is an every day occurrance that a child would be kept completely isolated without any accesss to outsiders--like that's normal parenting. (Maybe to you that sounds like normal parenting.)
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Most of the list is an everyday occurance. It is not unique to programs at all, but many here try to pretend it is. Everything applies except the communication to family.
--- Quote ---And you blew past the issue of child molesters and bullies being drawn to this type of work/setting.
The kids are isolated for months and years, and the parents are not there to protect their children from abusers who would harm them. Further, the children have no access to outside advocates in order to report abuse. The abusers don't need to groom the children to keep them quiet--the kids are pre-branded as "liars," and can't reach law enforcement to report abuse when it occurs.
I would never place a child in such a high-risk environment. Period.
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The only safe alternative is to home school your child. If you send them to a public high school then they are exposed to teachers who may molest them. They are forced to disrobe after sports practice and shower which leaves them exposed to all sorts of potential abuse from peers, coaches and assistants. We all read about this everyday. Child molesters and bullies are not unique to programs they follow kids where ever they go.
We, as a society, need to do a better job protecting these kids. But anyway, I responded because I didn’t want the readers to get the impression that programs were unique to this problem and to just be honest and say it is a problem we have at all levels of education and treatment of our children.
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