When I was labeled a ‘troubled’ teen, I obliged
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#3If you want to read something truly horrific check out elan.school .
It was a troubled teen school in Maine that sounds unbelievable until you read multiple identical stories from students
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#4I was sent to one of these programs when i was 13. Two guys came to my house and picked me up in the middle of the night and traveled with me to a wilderness program in the north georgia mountains. That ended up turning into a 20 momth stay at their "Therapeutic Boarding School".
About 5 years later the students burned the school down and i got about $2000 dollars in a class action lawsuit because they were hiring untrained therapists and admitting students who they knew were a risk to others around them.
The schools was Hidden Lake Academy anf the wilderness program was Ridge Creek Academy
AMA if anyone is interested.
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#5I was sent to one of these programs when i was 13. Two guys came to my house and picked me up in the middle of the night and traveled with me to a wilderness program in the north georgia mountains. That ended up turning into a 20 momth stay at their "Therapeutic Boarding School". About 5 years later the students burned the school down and i got about $2000 dollars in a class action lawsuit because they were hiring un…
Only question I have is- do you still talk to the people who chose to have you sent there?
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#6If you want to read something truly horrific check out elan.school . It was a troubled teen school in Maine that sounds unbelievable until you read multiple identical stories from students
I was one of the unlucky people who spent time at elan. It was a terrible terrible time. Much like the author of the article I was awoken by 2 big dudes in my bedroom and was given the choice to get dressed and go peacefully or they would drag me out of bed and take me away in my underwear. I said I'm not doing shit until my parents give you permission to take me. They handed me a piece of paper with both my parents signatures on it that effectively signed custody over to them. I asked if I could smoke a cigarette before we left and they told me I could smoke as many as I wanted in the van.
That was the start of one of the worst times in my life.
elan was a real life hell.
AMA if you want.
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#7How do these cases not result in mass prosecutions?
It shouldn't be too hard to tie a few people to the abuse at these schools, then police say, "give us names and help us understand who was responsible at the top, or you're looking at many, many years in prison for child abuse and we'll just find someone else who'll talk"
You know, the same way prosecutors go after mobsters and drug rings
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#8At best, the article seems disjointed and confused...then suddenly sort of resolves things in one vague and creepy paragraph. Reasonably symbolic of a teen in such circumstances, but the author hasn't been a teen for quite a few years.
I finished it thinking "Yeah, the current system is a really poor fit for a lot of teens, and the 'corrective system' is crap too...but that was old news decades ago. The author offer no insight, no better idea, nothing."
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#9I was sent to one of these programs when i was 13. Two guys came to my house and picked me up in the middle of the night and traveled with me to a wilderness program in the north georgia mountains. That ended up turning into a 20 momth stay at their "Therapeutic Boarding School". About 5 years later the students burned the school down and i got about $2000 dollars in a class action lawsuit because they were hiring un…
This is so weird and could definitely identify myself, but... I was sent to a therapeutic boarding school called elan. A month or two after I got home my best friend was "taken" and did outward bound then got sent to hidden lakes in GA.
I still remember the first time I saw him a year or two later... He was home on a visit and snuck out of his house and rode his bike to our friends house. We got really baked and he got all serious and was like "Guys.... Do I have an accent now? I fucking hate how the people down there talk" lol
Re: When I was labeled a ‘troubled’ teen, I obliged
#10If you want to read something truly horrific check out elan.school . It was a troubled teen school in Maine that sounds unbelievable until you read multiple identical stories from students
I was one of the unlucky people who spent time at elan. It was a terrible terrible time. Much like the author of the article I was awoken by 2 big dudes in my bedroom and was given the choice to get dressed and go peacefully or they would drag me out of bed and take me away in my underwear. I said I'm not doing shit until my parents give you permission to take me. They handed me a piece of paper with both my parents…
Have you read the comic linked above? Is any of it embellished or is how it’s portrayed pretty close to how it actually is?