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MutantMandias Perverse and Often Baffling
Location: Atlanta, GA Gender: Male Total Likes: 268 likes
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| | | | Re: Institutionalized for being athiest? < Reply # 3 on 2/27/2012 10:52 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | It's simply the religion of Capitalism. The facility exists to play on the fears of the ignorant and scam them for piles of money, promising to deliver whatever it is that the parents want to hear... and as time goes on, the story and presentation changes to keep the money coming in. I'm not sure about the state of teen drug rehab facilities these days, but I know that there were plenty of them popping up in the 80s and 90's that operated like this. The bottom line was all that mattered. "Participants" were little more than dollar signs to the people running them, and the presentations made to parents were almost like extortion, convincing them that they would be neglecting their children's welfare by not having them locked away, doing everything that they could to increase fear, panic, and hopelessness.
I have no idea about Horizon Academy, but they certainly throw around a lot of the key phrases "willing to do whatever it takes to help your child" - Don't you want your child to succeed? "defiance, school troubles, drug or alcohol issues and anger-management difficulties, disrespectful to parents and authority figures with entitlement mentality" - seems to describe most kids to some extent And, my favorite... they offer unofficial advice about how to treat their exorbitant tuition as a tax write off. These kinds of places are a godsend for some people. It is exactly the kind of environment that would work wonders for kids with specific challenges. But it doesn't take long before the people running a place like this realize that they could do so much more to help the kids if they only got more participants, and it doesn't take much longer before getting new participants is the most important part of their business model, whether the program is the right fit or not.
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| MutantMandias Perverse and Often Baffling
Location: Atlanta, GA Gender: Male Total Likes: 268 likes
Are you a reporter? Contact me for a UE interview! Also not averse to the the idea of group/anal.
| | | | Re: Institutionalized for being athiest? < Reply # 9 on 2/28/2012 2:24 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | And yet, the content of the worst reality tv show is not nearly as brain damaging as the majority of the commercials that reality shows exist to shove down the watcher's throats, like geese being force fed for foie gras. But, to get back on topic, America is an institution already. So sayeth Wonko the Sane.
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Location: General Area Gender: Male Total Likes: 2 likes
| | | Re: Institutionalized for being athiest? < Reply # 18 on 3/1/2012 3:59 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by MrGreenJeans So blame your parents, they must have had something against you to send you to some concentration camp where you're forced to eat your own vomit. I'd be looking into emancipation. Like I said, I'd never send my kids to one of these places. For every good one theres one or more bad.
| I haven't been in that system for some years, cupcake. You're typing to someone that has some measure of experience in a world you know little about. You might gain some insight by hearing out that perspective. Not all parents are so well informed and this is an institutional issue as much as a profit driven social problem. I wasn't sent to the camps, but I was at a school that had a large student body in and out of those types of places. I was kicked out of public schools and sent to the "non-public" district; that is, not exactly private school, not exactly juvy, not exactly continuation. Those places operate in a very real gray zone. What are schools going to do with kids that are "behavior problems" but haven't committed serious crimes? They can't keep them in the general population, but can't send them to a real prison. Similarly, some kids get sent to these places by the courts. Sometimes it is parents with the best of intentions. I do doubt that a court would send a kid to a prison camp in Jamaica or Mexico though, no matter how fancy the brochure is. It's messy, and the fault to me ultimately is with profiteers and institutions, not necessarily social rules, family units, or values. On a side note, it was the rich kids that make up the highest portion of the death toll (death from drugs, stupid shit, etc) at my school. I think there were at least a half dozen kids that died at my school of 150 or so in a period of about 4-5 years. Poors did alright, if not over achieved or stumbled into better positions a few years out.
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