Whoa, WTF?!

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They shopped around for a state with favorable laws and moved there when they got into trouble where they started. If they're breaking any laws they're not likely to be obvious about it, and I know this is probably too much for some of us to consider...but they probably aren't breaking any laws.

Yeah, I know but I've had a lot of dealings with the regulations for daycare and nursing homes. Though abuses exist, these places get a microscope shoved up their ass on a regular basis. Some of these rules are ridiculous. For example in the state of Maryland for an in home daycare with more than about 7 children including the children of the day care owner, each child needs to have their own mat to nap on and their own sheet. If a child happens to fall asleep on a couch, the day care used to get dinged for this. In nursing homes the staff isn't allowed to call the residents little names like sugar, sweetheart, darling. They think it's demeaning.

How is it that day care's and nursing homes get regular ass rapings but these boarding schools get away with outright abuse?

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I understand that they sort of take a military approach to reformation (which is why I think people turn a blind eye to the abuse) but If you look at it there are very few paralels between the situation that happens in the military and whats happening with these kids and their families. I will list a few of these differences:

1) Overall those who enter the military are (relitively speaking) well adjusted.
2) Those joining the military are adults therefore parental family dynamics have little to do with reforming their character.
3) Except when there's a draft, those joining the military do so by their own choice, which as I mentioned before, they made as adults.
4) From what I understand after the military "makes" a soldier they build the person back up again. The person has some amount of free choice and autonomy.
5) When it comes to troubbled children it is asinine to "fix" a child without "fixing" the whole family. Yes I understand that some children come out of the womb defiant but if you only work with a child and not with the whole family very little get's accomplished. Most of the time the parents need as much "fixing" as the child.
6) This is the most disturbing part. When the child gets demoralized, brainwashed, crushed (however you want to discribe it) what actually takes the place of what was before? How mentally healthy is a brainwashed person? Has anyone followed the graduates of these boarding homes to measure if they are behaving like mentally healthy people? Are these people able to make and maintain healthy long term relationships? Are they co-dependant? Are they able to not only keep a job but move up in a company. To prove that any program works requires long term studies. Is anyone doing this?