Stories like this make my blood boil. The concept of sending a troubled child to a boot camp is a little iffy in the first place, especially when such camps are not regulated in any meaningful way.
Here's the ugliness:
Here's the camp's web site, which may or may not crash your browser.
A couple of questions for my fellow Orgahs: Is it possible my tax dollars went to support this camp? I'm worried about the Faith Based Initiatives, and the haphazard way the money's been sloshed about. I would be outraged if this group received Federal money.
Secondly, is there any mechanism for keeping an eye on these boot camps for kids? In theory, they sound fine, but the potential for abuse is so high, I just don't know about them. Troubled, misbehaving kids, taken away from all parental supervision, put under the care of adults who may or may not be psychotic ... I just don't know.
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