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When I was 12 years old, I went to a 2-week art and music summer camp, run by Methodist nuns. It wasn't a military school or for troubled kids, just a fun camp for anybody.
These nuns would routinely paddle kids with a wooden spoon, in front of everbody else. You'd be required to bend over, then she'd hit you as hard as she could with it at least 3 times for various misbehavior, including being too loud at night (it's a 10 acre facility with cabins).
One day, apparently a boy pulled a girl's dress up to embarrass her. The nuns responded (1) by paddling the boy 10 times, and (2) by forcing him and all 14 of the boys in his cabin to strip down to their underwear and parade through the entire camp for 15 minutes, while all the other kids from the other cabins, both boys and girls, were lined up fully dressed watching. During the parade they had to perform various chores like pick up litter, and weren't allowed to cover themselves in any way.
And these were all self-conscious adolescents. This is the kind of thing that goes on in just run-of-the-mill summer camps. You can imagine how much worse military-style discipline camps must be.
I hope they shut down Thayer "learning center" and win a several million dollar settlement. It sounds like the camp has deep pockets.
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