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Originally Posted by raveneye
My only direct experience with someone who went to one of these schools was in 5th grade, when a serious problem student (bully, out of control temper, fought with everybody incl. teachers) was sent to military school for a year.
He came back to 6th grade into my class. Very polite, friendly, seemingly in control. For awhile anyway. All it took was a little provocation, as I recall somebody cut in front of him in a line about a month into school, and he lost it and was wrestling on the floor again.
Then he was out again and I never saw him again.
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This is usually the case. For a short period of time these "places"
seem to work. However, in the long run they are just a short-term solution to a problem that should have been handled with long term therapy, consequences for negative behavior, and family support.
A friend of mine who I went through
Straight, Inc. with in Dallas, who is a lawyer now, was lucky enough to find a counselor that realized she needed to be "deprogrammed" through "exit counseling" after her experience. Another one of the girls I was in with went to a cult specialist/deprogrammer also but still to this day, almost 20 years later, has a severe personal image disorder. The degradation, humiliation, and torture methods are enough to scar anyone for life, but especially a child.
The long term effects that these places cause due to this type of childhood trauma stays with these kid’s in the form of PTSD, and other disorders long after their experience is far from over. That's why the suicide rate of former students is so high. There were 3 suicides and 1 murder that came out of the 18-month program I went to.