On 2003-10-30 04:36:00, Anonymous wrote:
"My mother and dad met with the folks from TB last Monday and they have agreed that I am on a way to death or jail based on my lifestyle. I skipp school and scream at my elders. It is time to grow up; I go in next Monday adn I'll be back on this board when I become a graduate and a man. Until then, thanks for all the encouragement I have received.
James"
I don't buy that you're a real kid, I think you're trolling for flames.
If you are a real kid, your parents are using a dangerous sledgehammer to swat something that's alittle bit bigger than a fly, but not at "death or jail" level---except for a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct for screaming at people, someday, if you don't learn better ways of communicating.
Anger management training and letting you either decide to quit school and get a job, go to alternative school, or get your act in gear and quit skipping school are the more sane and proportional solutions to that level of problem.
Being a high school dropout is bad, but it's not exactly the same thing as "jail or death."
People do survive it, get GEDs, go to community college and get an education, etc.
Sure, it's not the track to Harvard, but it's not nearly "jail or death."
When you get right down to it, the risks from being a high school dropout are less than the risks of being a psychiatric casualty from a dangerous "program" which substitutes Stockholm Syndrome and other mind control techniques on a one-size-fits-all basis for actual competent standard-of-care treatment of the individual teen's real problems in living.
If you are a real kid, I don't know what you haven't told us, and I haven't seen you, and I'm not a professional.
But I certainly would't commit MY child to an institution without trying all the less restrictive alternatives recommended by a GOOD licensed clinical psychologist, first.