Just want to say I don't think DRA was the first choice. My guess is that it was Alpine Academy. We don't hear a peep about the name if the school during the search and as soon as it's chosen, the name of the school comes out publicly. While the practices if programs might be relatively similar, it's very clear which programs have no ethics when it comes to marketing or confidentiality.
She might have gotten a more individualized treatment at Alpine which consist of a number of small group homes near Erda, but I question their ability doing a good background check when hiring employees. A "house parent" was sentenced to prison for various indecent acts against a student committed in 2009.
Second taking the media into consideration combined with the marketing of the facility it would have been difficult for Alpine to handle her case. Remember a girl was killed by the police after she fled the facility staying with a criminal which happened to be her boyfriend. Can a girl escape the media would also be able to take photo after photo of her from public road.
Of course now where DRA’s campus is located on Sand Hollow Road in a national park with public access instead of the deserted place the old campus was located the media will still be able to monitor her from distance. Maybe that could be a kind of safety against punishments like “Homeless” as they called it because websites like TMZ could very easy make a story of her pushing a Mormon handcart all day. I guess that they no longer use that kind of punishment now where they are trying to rebrand the program on sport and performance instead of ranching. The question remains what kind of punishment they use instead because it cannot all be sport and cheering. The teenagers are sent there against their will and they must have a kind of punishment system to control the facility.
I fear that her health will be forgotten in the DRA machine. It does not look like a place where the needs of the individual teenager are given much room. It seems to be a kind of group focus they have and many teenagers need a very individual treatment plan for them to succeed.
Surely the stay did no good for Michael Blosil. DRA had 50 percent success curing same-sex experiments by Rachael and Jessica. So if you take a family like the Osmond’s the facility had only 33 success-rates. The two Jackson boys are proper better to play happy where they focus on various sport activities looking at what kind of fate their sister now may endure. Let us just hope that the grandmother can keep herself alive until they both are adult so the greedy extended family doesn’t send them to Utah also.
