Archive | May 2012
30/05/2012  

4. Casa by the Sea, Mexico

Casa by the Sea was properly one of most well-known special schools run by World Wide Association of special Schools and programs known as WWASP. It opened in 1998.

It was closed in 2004 by the police in Mexico on a day where the government decided to clean up in a number of illegal run boarding schools targeted for American parents who couldn’t find a boarding school in the United States ready to go the distance to break their children, so they could have children back acting just as nice as then their children were toddlers.

It wasn’t the first time schools were closed down in Mexico. A school called Sunrise Beach had been closed down some years before. A boot camp known as “High Impact” was closed down only 3 years before. More about the boot camp later.

At Casa by the Sea the teenagers should earn the right to speak to their parents in person. Letters were censored and the parents were instructed to believe that their children were lying.

The so-called counselors were ready to fight the teenagers and violence was not rare.

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25/05/2012  

3. Solhaven – Denmark

A few miles south of here – a life journey for those who are sent there – the hamlet known as Farsoe is located.

It is a name feared by teenagers all over Denmark because there you learn to fear the word “coffee”. When a staff member calls for coffee it is a codeword for them to call musclemen so huge that they are not even seen in professional wrestling and then you experience a beating you will remember for life.

We are talking of Solhaven the most well-known behavior modification program in Denmark. Here are people employed who are happy with their work if they can jump a troubled teenager.

In my town – Aalborg – we have safe houses run by ordinary citizens and priests where runaways are kept out of sight until they become legally adults. Some of the therapists have been jumped by angry citizens when they came for teenagers after home visits. The police has been involved in high speed chases which occur when some of the teenagers try to escape by car.

The latest news is that they have finally fired their director. Maybe something good is in store for the teenagers who are sent there.

Update 2018

The group home system controlled by the owner closed down. The employees got off from the trial due to a technicality. Years later the media felt kind of sorry for the loss of jobs. However the trial was necessary because the laws in Denmark were changed for the better as result of this case. Some employees were unable to work again after the ordeal of the trial and ended up on disability. However they were not supposed to work in that line of work from the very start so only the management of the group home is responsible for hiring them into such difficult situation. The media had no responsability to take. They had the responsability to report what they heard or were told.

It is weird almost bizarre that the media shows regret. They stopped a sick system. The social services in Denmark invoice parents if the social services believe that an mental illness or criminal behavior is caused by the child’s social heritage. A depression at a child can set back a family 164,000 DKK despite Denmark having one of the highest tax-rates in the world. Then the treatment of the child should be equal a stay at a 5-star hotel with all services included. A Solhaven the children complained of violence. Still the former manager say that it was fake news.

If it was fake news, the police would not have seen any reason to ask for prosecution. They did and while the juridical system is complicated, the police should not stop short of an investigation just because it looks like it would be complicated. Solhaven closed and it is safe to say that the children who were sent there did not see it as a fun place to be.

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Update 2022

A well-known Danish author and former candidate for the Danish parliament Yahya Hassan who now has passed away attended the facility while he was a teenager. At the facility he engaged in a sexual relationship with one of the employees.

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20/05/2012  

2. DeSisto School in Massachusetts

The Desisto school was a so-called therapeutic boarding school located in Massachusetts. It was created by one of the many teenage gurus parents turn to when they experience problems with their children.

Michael Desisto may have achieved some degree at some place. Please comment if you know of one of his supposed degrees which did hold up in reality.

I am a boy and had I been placed at this school I would properly have avoid to being forced to sit on his lap as many teenage girls have experienced.

Somehow I feel that he did wrong in his approach, but because I have not have a conversation with him, I will let the readers judge him. Feel free to comment.

There are a lot of people out there who are happy to report that the school did close in 2004.

Sources:
Datasheet from Fornits Wiki

16/05/2012  

1. Unknown Koranic School in Sudan

I don’t know about religion. I don’t attend church every weekend. I just hated it on the boarding school when we had to sing every morning.

When I see this weekend I see children being forced to memorize religious texts all day. It must be as terrible as it can be.

This Koran School is number one on my list, but as I stated not necessary the worst.

16/05/2012  

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This blog is about 1000 places you don’t want to be as a teenager. They are published in random order as torment, violence, evilness and torture are difficult to measure.