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Court ordered..HLA

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juniper:
Is there anyone out there that would know the percentage of the children on probation? and,
probation for what reasons??

juniper:
Deborah    Sorry...

Is that you or Robert re: court referred
children?

Deborah:
I don?t know what the situation at HLA is currently, but other programs that take adjudicated youth frequently have a contract with the state to ?treat? their juvenile offenders. There could also be teens there whose parents negotiated with the court for placement in a private facility rather than state run. In the latter case, parents would pay.

Some programs are open about it, particularly wilderness programs, and claim to keep adjudicated and others separated.

My older son spent six months at a marine military academy. They told parents that they didn?t take teens with criminal records or severely distressed kids. It came out during the lawsuit that indeed boys had arrived in handcuffs.

I?m not sure where you?d go to find a definitive answer to that question.

revengeofamuffin:
Most of the kids that are on probation there are on it because they have tried to "walk down the road" or "escape" from the program. They get apprehended, arrested and put on probation.

SHH:
This is what I remember from sending out report cards.....and this was 1997-1998, so I have no idea what percentage it is now, but...back then the state did not have any sort of contract with the school to send juvenile offenders there. But, there was a very small number of students who were given the option to go to a therapeutic school instead of a juvenile detention facility or military academy as terms of their sentance if you want to use that term. I only remember sending out maybe at the most 2 or 3 report cards a semester to probation officers. And as far as I know tuition was paid by parents, or guardians, or insurance, not the state. The overwhelming majority of students were there because their parents enrolled them, or through an educational consultant and parents. Now back then the school was smaller than it is now. I think that maybe it had between 60-100 students between 1997-1998. Thats a guess but should be close. But like I said, I have no idea what the ratio is now, or even if they have kids who were placed by judges anymore. YOu would have to check that out yourself if possible.

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