Even before I was an adult and learned how terrible these places are whenever they’d show up on some daytime tv show as a solution to a kid in trouble with the law or “headed down a bad path”, it was plane as day they were just abuse centers. My parents are far from perfect but there’s no way either of them would’ve sent any of us to one regardless of what we were doing.
I’ve lived in multiple “troubled teen” centers. You are 100% correct.
And I’ve worked in them. Trauma causing to both clients/ patients and staff (if they care). So much waste, fraud, and abuse. Just keeps happening. I am truly sorry.
I did contract IT work for one where one of the staff got in very serious trouble for having CSAM on their work computer. Like a lot of it.
Sorry to hear that friend, glad you made it out though
Only because I turned 18. But it was nice, nonetheless.
I’m in my 40s, now. I still have nightmares about getting out back into a center. But I also have a strong sense of justice and sometimes compassion for strangers due to my time in those places.
Seeing people my age put their OWN kids into those places and lost me a friendship, recently. I see nothing good coming from those places
Obviously they are different levels and types of abuse, but I look at the friends I grew up in my local church with, who put their kids in the same church as soon as they can the same way. Like they weren’t talking about how fucked up it was less than 5 years ago.
I’m glad you are doing better and hope you can move past the trauma somehow! I wish you the best of luck!
Everything I’ve read about “troubled teen” camps has suggested they are torture camps.
Or cults! See autobiographical webcomic elan.school (unless you care about your mental well-being)
What a sad fucking nightmare for everyone involved.
I know parents didn’t know how bad these places were years ago, and the people running them put on a good show, but anyone still willing to put their kid in one after they’ve been pretty thoroughly exposed should lose all of their children. This shit is sick.
There are no tests to be a parent. The overlap between those who would send their kids to these camps and those who are too stupid/ignorant to know what goes on there is basically a circle.
Just to have the frame of reference, is there at least 1 on these wilderness camps that isn’t a pedo operated blood bath?
Obligatory elan.school
Jason Voorhees?
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