https://elan.school is a long, but very good comic about life at Elan, one of these "schools". It finished the other monthafter 100 chapters, and it's well worth the read. It's a reeeally messed up industry.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Hundreds of thousands of young Americans have endured similar harms or assaults in residential boot camps, wilderness therapy and Christian and therapeutic boarding schools, which claim to vanquish teen psychological problems like drug misuse, depression and defiant behavior.
One example is the private school Hidden Lake Academy, to which the billionaire Harlan Crow paid tuition for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s grandnephew.
In a 2008 congressional hearing, a parent described how her child was subjected to attack therapy — brutal emotional assaults and public humiliation aimed at breaking down problematic personalities at the school, which was shut down in 2011 after a lawsuit helped bankrupt it.
would authorize a study to be conducted by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine to determine, among other things, how many youth are held in residential settings for behavioral problems, how much federal money is spent on them and where it comes from.
Today a kid could die in a program.” Indeed, a Government Accountability Office investigation conducted in the late 2000s documented abuse-related deaths, as well as thousands of abuse allegations.
It is shameful that Republicans have made it impossible to pass legislation with real teeth to ban clearly harmful tactics like corporal punishment in children’s residential care.
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