"Sen. Tom Hatch is sponsoring legislation to crack down on unsafe group homes, but had been opposed to government meddling in private boarding schools."
This is where Hatch and others' thinking needs to change.
These facilities, RTCs, TBSs, SPSs, are NOT traditional boarding schools.
Medical Insurance doesn't cover tuition to a traditional boarding school. Nor do school districts.
Parents can't write off trips to visit their (disabled) child at traditional boarding schools.
Students of traditional boarding schools don't have contact with family severed, monitored phone call and mail, visits home based on behavior.
They really need to get it that thousands of teens are being subjected to BM- a highly controversial theory- austere and experimental 'therapy', and isolation from the world.
For all intents and purposes, these facilities are psuedo psych hospitals. Heavy on behavior modification, with the use of psychotropics varying by program. Boarding schools.... over-priced teen warehouses... but certainly, 'unsafe group homes' is a bit closer to the truth.
