Got some questions for ya:
Do you know what WWASPS does, or how it does it?
We do, and we can tell you all youd ever want to know about it, too.
Do you know of any study showing that programs are effective at reducing redivism rates for anything?
We dont either. We do know plenty about bootcamps, but not programs, that show theres no change, and while one study does exist regarding a single program, "academy at swift river" it has no control group, and itself admits that theres no way to know if it was effective or not.
It also detailed how it basically abused children to make them do what the staff wanted them to do.
The only thing WWAPSS is doing is scaring, torturing and humiliating him into doing as told. As soon as hes out of there, and eventually he will be, he wont have someone forcing him to do as told, and hell do what he wants.
How likely do you think it is the first thing hes going to do is tell you and everything to do with the program, and everyONE to do with the program, to fuck off, and probably go crazy?
Do you even know about the seminars, and what they do? Do you know about the level system?
Im sure youre scared for your childs well being, otherwise you wouldnt have forfitted your child, contact with your child, and an assload of money, but youre buying smoke and mirrors - temporary piece of mind for *YOU* at the cost of his well being, and potentially his future. There is no proof these programs work, whatsoever, and if you draw an analogue to another behavior mod system, bootcamps, theyre shown to NOT work, by innumerable studies, and also to cause lots of problems for the people who are in them later on down the line.
Plus, if you care, they're abusing him. Hes living in a world of fear of punishment and is totally isolated from everything except that program, even you. If thats what you want, then fine, in this nation youre able to treat him as chattel property until he turns 18 - but this is solving nothing, and giving him more problems to deal with himself. And even if it does brainwash him, its going to wear off in a few years at most.
So, take your pick - spend thousands of dollars on a temporary fix for YOUR piece of mind at the cost of his own, or cut your losses, pull him out, and find some actual therapy for whatever problems he had before, PLUS what WWASPS did to him now.