I was on a boarding school some years ago and it saved my life. When ever I feel lazy I just have to look in the mirror and see the scars caused by the whip and then I feel motivated again.
But I have a problem, which seem to have been discussed in the Troubled Teenager forum. I live with a woman in a foreign nation because I can't control myself regarding using my students (I am a teacher) to satisfy myself. I am sorry and I know that I am selfish, but due to my stay in the program I got deprived from relationship in my teenage year and my present therapist thinks that I am overcompensating as result of that.
With all this focus on female teachers in the States I had no choice to relocate to Costa Rica. Perhaps as kind of bad conscience they boarding school allowed by to have my so-to-been wife with me on weekends. (She has some years of her contract left. Complicated story. I won't go into that)
But still I don't think that the situation is perfect. Then yesterday my cusin called me. Her son has totally forgotten about school during his senior year, because preparing for spring break seems to take all his time. Of course my first thought was to recommend my former boarding school -
Stalwarts of Support - but my nephew is so stubborn. Perhaps the
Equestrian Boot Camp their short-term is called isn't hard enough. Then my thoughs came upon SIBS, but the coupons my family got from my stay cannot be used at other facilities that those belonging to
WWADS. But a short stay at another program followed by a stay at SoS could do it.
So my first question is: What do you do with your students when they dont buy into the program? Do you have a short term program in the neighborhood? I have googled boot camps in Mexico and since they closed
High Impact, the only one seems to be
HPLCMy second question is: Is your program gender separated? While I like my girls friend I belive that my cousin would like to have grandchildren one day. Gender separated programs generally makes that difficult.
Regards
Susan L