Don't you get it yet? Take a look at the press in Bonner's Ferry about CEDU shutting down. Not a word of concern for why it shut down or the kids and staff who have been complaining for years about that mad house. Just "Oh, those poor people who suddenly lost their jobs!"
I think the Nephi area community standards are like that. They just issued a license to Mark Wardle again.
I think that is the mindset and Chris Gentile has probably stated it as well as anyone. "Eh, so some kids get roughed up, humiliated, threatened, intimidated, indoctrinated, etc. So what? At least they don't have a 300lb Jamaican twisting their arms out of joint."
Of course, I'm paraphrasing. But that is the state of the industry in the great western states today.
The worse part of it is that some of the people who send kids to these places know all about it and tacitly or even overtly approve. I don't know what to do about those types except maybe to try and shed light on the fact. Maybe their neighbors and families will shame them into better behavior or at least take seriously the fact that their kids have valid complaints and need some help and support. But for those who don't know, who assume that the friendly and charming edcon is telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but, at least we can try and give those ones a heads up.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-- Robert Heinlein
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