229. Star Meadows Academy / Hope Ranch
Old website when it was upThis girls home was located near Whitefish, Montana. The girls were forced to wear a farm like uniform and subjected to a very Christian program. The owners had their problems...
View Article232. Mission Mountain School
The Mission Mountain School existed from 2001 to 2008. The target group was teenage girls suffering from minor problems. The employees “treated” the girls with forced labor, isolation and manipulation....
View Article233. Monarch School
A school where the teenagers have no access to television, phone conversations with their families and friends back home and where they are subjected to marathon therapy sessions against their will is...
View Article234. Montana Academy
The first thing students experience when they arrive at the boarding school is that they have to take all their clothes off. Their days are filled with forced labor and little treatment. A former...
View Article235. New Horizons Youth Ranch
New Horizons Youth Ranch is one of “We fix everything” ranches in Montana. However there is lack of qualified employees, education is not of a modern standard. The Students end up being behind their...
View Article236. Pinehaven Christian Children’s Ranch
Pinehaven Christian Children’s Ranch was founded in 1976 according to various sources and it seems like they have remained in 1976. Several teenagers have escaped from the ranch. Hard labor is used a...
View Article238. Federal Government College, Nigeria
Once again we find that it is time to mention a school where the reason for its placement in this blog is not that the teachers are abusive or the teenagers are withheld from activities which is a rite...
View Article239. Spring Creek Lodge
Spring Creek Lodge was one of the largest programs in the now almost closed WWASP chain of behavior modification boarding schools. Located in an isolated part of Montana they were the largest employer...
View Article240. Turning Winds
Turning Winds is marketed for a school for struggling teens. Having researched the history of the school it seems that the owners had to leave Idaho for Montana when they became center of a police...
View Article243. Focal Point Academy
Focal Point Academy located in Mesquite in Nevada where All of Me Child Care of Development is located now functioned as a therapeutic boarding school. However it was not licensed properly and lack of...
View Article244. Horizon Academy
In 2007 Mr. Robinson had to move out of California because the authorities had the nerves to have laws regarding the nature of therapeutic boarding schools. It posed a problem for the man because...
View Article248. Sky View Academy
Sky View Academy was one of the former WWASP facilities. It existed only for about 2 years before it lost its license due to a fight between several students caused by lack of supervision and care from...
View Article253. The Army and Navy Academy, Carlsbad
Lawsuits, culture of violence, cover-ups and inaction is some of the key-words which are mentioned when people talk about this academy. Alleged sexual molestation as another lawsuits tells does not...
View Article255. Bjerketun verneskole for jenter
Today it is called “Bjerketun ungdomspsykiatriske behandlingshjem” and the treatment methods are therapy but it wasn’t always so. In 1960 the media published a number of articles based on the testimony...
View Article256. Bastøy skolehjem
Known as the Devils Island in the Oslofjord this boarding school for truant teenagers was in operation from around 1900 to 1970 where the awareness of the use of violence put an end to this type of...
View Article263. Colaiste Chroi Naofa
Colaiste Chroi Naofa was a boarding school near Carrignavar in Ireland. A deluge a abuse testimonies have been made public. It could not have been fun to be sent to this boarding school far from...
View Article265. Shortridge Academy
Shortridge Academy was founded by a former student from CEDU who wanted to re-create the same kind of enclosed boarding school he went to. A couple of years a documentary about CEDU and the long-term...
View Article267. Rancho Valmora
Rancho Valmora was marketed as a therapeutic boarding school. It was in operation from the early 1990s to 2009 where it closed down. Officially the economy was blaimed but if newspapers are scanned...
View Article268. Tierra Blanca Ranch
Tierra Blanca Ranch was marketed as a working ranch for at-risk teenagers. The parents who sent their sons to this ranch would properly not imagine that their boys would end up in shackles but that is...
View Article269. Academy at Ivy Ridge
Academy at Ivy Ridge was open from 2001 to 2009. It was part of the WWASP organization. An investigation found that the school issued diplomas not valid in that region. The school was fined $250,000. A...
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