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<blockquote data-quote="Fran" data-source="post: 102800" data-attributes="member: 3"><p>There are different levels of boarding schools in my mind.</p><p></p><p>Military which tends to not be for Learning disabled or unstable personality. Geared towards behavior modification and structure. Good for some(I would have benefitted) I'm not talking the schools that are cruel, inhumane and not understanding of normal growth and development at that age.</p><p></p><p>emotional growth boarding school. Tend for average intelligence and above. Very much modeled on a tier system of priveledges to be earned and a lot of peer pressure to do the right thing. Consequences tend toward loss of priveledge and what I call shunning. You are in contact with the group but aren't part of the group for a specified time. My son did little school work so after all the regular consequences failed, he was "tabled". During after school social time, he had a table to do his homework. He had one peer who spoke to him and helped redirect him to do the school work and to listen. Staff is always present and always a resource. hardly cruel. </p><p></p><p>Therapeutic boarding school where there is instability and tends to be a more hospital based program. They can attend to medications, dr. visits and all is incorporated into a tightly therapeutic program. Once a certain level of stability is attained a less hospital type program is a way to transition.</p><p></p><p>Residential Treatment Centers for substance abuse. I have no experience and can't speak of it.</p><p></p><p>There are Residential Treatment centers for behavior problems also. </p><p></p><p>There are forced programs for juvenile offenders and seem to be geared towards law breaking and teaching consequences for breaking the law. While mental illness is prevelant it is not a program for mentally ill teens.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Pretty much those of us who have been through the programs can tell you it is not a cure and he will not come out neurotypical. I wouldn't have traded the 2 yrs for anything. We did a second mortgage on our home at the time. My son was sinking into a really worrisome place and no one was offering us options. Private schools wouldn't deal with him. Public schools did the best they could with what they had but it is a bit of warehousing. No blame, just fact. medications helped but he was a big ball of over wrought emotions. </p><p></p><p>I should have moved to transitional program afterwards but I didn't want to keep going into debt and I was afraid to have him separated from us too much longer.</p><p></p><p>The program helped difficult child but it helped me tremendously. I could take a breath and regroup. My spirit was pretty empty by then. I was not devastated that he was gone. I was relieved that someone might do what I could not. Help difficult child.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fran, post: 102800, member: 3"] There are different levels of boarding schools in my mind. Military which tends to not be for Learning disabled or unstable personality. Geared towards behavior modification and structure. Good for some(I would have benefitted) I'm not talking the schools that are cruel, inhumane and not understanding of normal growth and development at that age. emotional growth boarding school. Tend for average intelligence and above. Very much modeled on a tier system of priveledges to be earned and a lot of peer pressure to do the right thing. Consequences tend toward loss of priveledge and what I call shunning. You are in contact with the group but aren't part of the group for a specified time. My son did little school work so after all the regular consequences failed, he was "tabled". During after school social time, he had a table to do his homework. He had one peer who spoke to him and helped redirect him to do the school work and to listen. Staff is always present and always a resource. hardly cruel. Therapeutic boarding school where there is instability and tends to be a more hospital based program. They can attend to medications, dr. visits and all is incorporated into a tightly therapeutic program. Once a certain level of stability is attained a less hospital type program is a way to transition. Residential Treatment Centers for substance abuse. I have no experience and can't speak of it. There are Residential Treatment centers for behavior problems also. There are forced programs for juvenile offenders and seem to be geared towards law breaking and teaching consequences for breaking the law. While mental illness is prevelant it is not a program for mentally ill teens. Pretty much those of us who have been through the programs can tell you it is not a cure and he will not come out neurotypical. I wouldn't have traded the 2 yrs for anything. We did a second mortgage on our home at the time. My son was sinking into a really worrisome place and no one was offering us options. Private schools wouldn't deal with him. Public schools did the best they could with what they had but it is a bit of warehousing. No blame, just fact. medications helped but he was a big ball of over wrought emotions. I should have moved to transitional program afterwards but I didn't want to keep going into debt and I was afraid to have him separated from us too much longer. The program helped difficult child but it helped me tremendously. I could take a breath and regroup. My spirit was pretty empty by then. I was not devastated that he was gone. I was relieved that someone might do what I could not. Help difficult child. [/QUOTE]
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