If any of the staff are American, could they by tried under the International Criminal Court?
Twisty, was that irony? Naughty.
My mistake.
Wonder if she got her mind right. :rolleyes:
I remember hearing something about this on AM radio late one night (damned if I can recall the show, but it was one of those mega-wattage ‘Superstations’ what can be heard thousands of miles away). The mother was on the line, telling the host about how she sent her son off to a place in Montana (didn’t say where, I would have remembered the town’s name) much like this one. He wound up in Jamaica before the mother conviced herself and her husband that this wasn’t right, that her son wasn’t completely lying to her, and that she absolutely had to rescue him herself 'cause the ‘Program’ wasn’t going to let him out freely.
Long story short, she wound up going down to Jamaica herself and rescuing her son from the hell she placed him in.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions and graded by denial and rationalization.
I’ve been reading some of the stories of the teens that have been through this, and they’re horrible. In some of the testimony from a court case one of the girls, Lindsey Wise, said that she was sent to what she called “Staff Watch,” which is called OP in the article in the Guardian, for 2 months for cracking her knuckles. The staff called it a “self-inflicted injury.”
To me one of the worst things about this place is that not all of the teens are sent there for things like repeated trouble with the law, but instead things like having a bad relationship with their parents. How exactly is sending your kid away for possibly years at a time going to help that relationship? If my parents did that to me, I’d get as far away as I could and never speak to them again. A newsflash for parents that would consider this: your kids will do things that you won’t approve of. It always has, and always will be this way. Think back to some of the bad things you did, and how you turned out without being sent to a place like this. Your job is to get them through to adulthood as best as you can, while letting them learn some of life’s lessons on their own, by making mistakes. Talk to them, don’t just ship them away and give up on them. That relationship that may not be the best now, may be 100% beter 5 years from now, just because you let them learn some things on their own, but were there for them when they needed it. And when it comes down to it, that’s what being a parent is all about.
I’ve been reading some of the stories of the teens that have been through this, and they’re horrible. In some of the testimony from a court case one of the girls, Lindsey Wise, said that she was sent to what she called “Staff Watch,” which is called OP in the article in the Guardian, for 2 months for cracking her knuckles. The staff called it a “self-inflicted injury.”
To me one of the worst things about this place is that not all of the teens are sent there for things like repeated trouble with the law, but instead things like having a bad relationship with their parents. How exactly is sending your kid away for possibly years at a time going to help that relationship? If my parents did that to me, I’d get as far away as I could and never speak to them again. A newsflash for parents that would consider this: your kids will do things that you won’t approve of. It always has, and always will be this way. Think back to some of the bad things you did, and how you turned out without being sent to a place like this. Your job is to get them through to adulthood as best as you can, while letting them learn some of life’s lessons on their own, by making mistakes. Talk to them, don’t just ship them away and give up on them. That relationship that may not be the best now, may be 100% beter 5 years from now, just because you let them learn some things on their own, but were there for them when they needed it. And when it comes down to it, that’s what being a parent is all about.
Wow, what an odd double-post, 20 minutes apart.
That’s a Level IV consequence, XCchick22. Report to the Staff Watch Room immediately, and hit the deck!
I. Am. Speechless.
Sort of a hijack.
I have a good friend who has spent the last 20 plus years working in various capacities for organizations that house troubled adolescents. Run away shelters, if you will. He has started various programs in various cities and states over the years (yes he IS a psychologist). He (incidentally) comes from the Caribbean. I forwarded the link to him asking if he knows about this place and what his professional opinion is. If anyone wants to know how he responds, say so and I will post his opinions (with his permission of coarse). I have also invited him to join the discussion, but lets see, as he is a very busy man.
Well, Janx the thread killer strikes again. Nobody said they wanted to know but I will post anyway.
My friend was kind enough to respond and allow me to post his e-mail to me, though I edited it, taking out personal info.
Janx wrote:
[friend], I was paruzing the message boards and came across this article:
Have you ever herd of this place? Is it real? what is your professional opinion?
I’m shocked.
Friend responds:
So, there ya go!
Now, are we going to try and do something about it? We have 37 thousand users here, all of which have e mail… Imagine the avalanche.