Joyce, you're an idiot...and it make me so sad.
Our grandaughter spent a year or so in a behavior modification facility in 2003, and I can assure you that Montana Academy fits the profile of ANY BM facility or therapeutic school or residential school or....whatever...
When our kid was sent away by her mother (our daughter), we tried everything in our power to convince the mother that this was a Very Bad Thing. The mother, however, had reasons in her own life that made getting rid of her daughter and letting others "fix" her a relief and a convenience. We tried explantations (armed with copious survivors' reports), coercion, nagging, alternatives (living with us), but this mother took the easy road and swallowed the cult doctrine.
What has come to pass is the quintessential life story of behavior modification survivors. She now lives with us and goes to high school hundreds of miles from her mother. She calls home rarely, every 2 or 3 weeks, and has nothing in common to talk about, so those conversations are stilted. She cannot share the small wonders of a boy flirting with her in class, or the thrill of driving alone the 40 miles to the mall, or the pride of an aced test.
She hates her mother for abandoning her. She loves her mother for being her mother, but is drifting away, and will never have the parent relationship every child should have. She also lost her only sister, who has stayed with her mother. She has us, her cousins, her aunts and uncles, and a huge circle of teen friends. But she has lost forever the mother who sent her away to hell in order to get some breathing room while the daughter was growing up.
Joyce, you may think that your daughter is a "changed" person, and she is. I can guarantee, however, that in the coming years, your actions will turn on you and leave you without the precious gift of your child. You may not see it this month, or even this year, but eventually, you will discover the irrepairable harm you have wrought. For that, I am sad for you.
This child will be the one to select your nursing home when you are old. Are you comfortable with the selection you made for her when she was young?