Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > The Troubled Teen Industry
Desisto School
Anonymous:
I went to desisto from 1987 to 1992...If you are a parent, there are better places to send you kid. Big time brainwashing. The parents, the kids, the staff. Lots of MAJOR BS!!! Stay away!
Anonymous:
I went to Desisto for three years when I ran away and made it- it took alot of tries- that was in 1997- I have 2 kids of my own now and strongly believe that there is no where worse for a child to go through their teens- I wouldn't send my worse enemy there.
Anonymous:
I worked there for quite some time. It was a hurrendous experience and would never recommend the program to anyone. It's brainwashing and inhumane. Be careful... Communication with your child is far more important than producing model behavior.
Anonymous:
Communicate with your teenager. Now there's a concept. Easier said than done, of course;
The sad truth is that parents don't have time to develop honest relationships with their children, and true to form, teenagers offer just the right excuses to send them away to let others deal with it.
My prediction is that all of the disfunctional boarding schools will soon become obsolete (this includes 99% of them from what I can tell,) and they will be replaced with good old fashioned military schools. I expect a huge resurgence of the military school, funded with tax dollars. Brainwashing under the guise of national security.
As soon as we get secure and comfortable in our rightous anger, the universe predictably gives us a brand new reality to master.
maryellen:
DeSisto was not a very good place when I was there, and has apparently gotten a lot worse. A state investigator with childen's services in MA described it as "dickensian" if that gives you any indication. The nicest thing I can say is that they've never killed anyone that I know of. Although there is an abnormally high suicide rate among it's alums. There are also a large number of Lord of the Flies Stories coming out of that school. Personally, I wouldn't send my dog there.
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