Escape is the first duty of every prisoner.
— Worf
Die.
— Worf
“And people say that I do not have a sense of humor.”
Given how “therapy” programs like this are, at best, complete bullshit and, at worst, full of fraud and abuse, I’m leaning on supporting the kids here.
There was a recent case in NC where a 12 y/o was found dead with his underpants off and the camp obstructed the investigation and continues to maintain the death was accidental even after a coroner ruled it was not. It’s the second death at that camp as well, previous one was in 2014.
Honestly even if the place is totally fine and treats the kids well, they’re teens doing silly teen things, slap on the wrist at most…
Troubled teen program? Is it gay conversion or a child molestation camp?
Probably all three.
Edit: jesus they are stranded on an island in fucking Alaska. I can only imagine how little oversight there is (which is why it’s so isolated) and how much abuse must occur there because of it.
There another place in Washington state called Secret Harbor School. According to Wikipedia, there were 52 escape attempts over three years
Its probably similar to elan.school. Schools where “kidnapping” is a thing are fucking disgusting
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Passages Alaska, founded in 2020. The website is incredibly vague on whom the therapy they use is for. They claim it’s for teens who “struggle with anxiety, depression, technology addiction, low self-esteem, and failure to launch” which is, as stated, incredibly vague.
Actual medical anxiety and depression isn’t the fault of the person and needs medicine, not “mindfulness therapy”. And I have no idea what “technology addiction” is. This sounds like parents who are mad at their kid being on their phone all the time.
It seems to be some New Age-y nonsense with a bunch of meditation and yoga BS.
This is just one of numerous abusive things conservatives do to their children to “toughen 'em up”.
Conservatives should not be permitted to be around children.
I don’t think it’s meditation and yoga, it’s stuff like backpacking and survival skills.
And deprivation and abuse.
“Failure to launch”…?
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The arrested were 14 and 17. The parents must have known ahead of time their 14 year old wasn’t going to be able to get out. Faith: what we have in sky people, not those that we raise/educate. Hmm, maybe that should say something about the parents. Nah let’s blame it on the teachers first, and the kids second.
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Oh, is that what the phrase is supposed to be about? Gross.
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I grew up in the same area as this place had no idea it existed. So messed up thinking about what was happening 20 minutes from my house and it ran until like 2011!
Calling this a therapy program is like calling leeches a cancer treatment.
The picture made me think it’s a landslide news.
17-year-old from Idaho and a 14-year-old from Minnesota were attending the wilderness retreat Passages Alaska for troubled youths
Wonder if one of them is secretly a basilisk from the boiling isles?
In a situation like this, it would be good to hear what they have to say. They are cut off from social media, completely deprived of the ability to communicate with someone to represent their point of view. This is terrible and the place is likely awful for them to have tried to escape like this. I hope one day when they get out of there they let people know if it was a terrible place.
