Girl, 17, who died at Utah 'therapeutic boarding school' Diamond Ranch had CURABLE disease 'ignored by staff who punished her for saying she was sick,' letting sepsis kill her, lawsuit says

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[–]IMissPorn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

No sympathy for the family. You don't send a kid to a place like that unless you're trying to get rid of them. But I hope they win for every penny the "school" has all the same, because it needs to be shut down somehow.

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No sympathy for the family. You don't send a kid to a place like that unless you're trying to get rid of them.

This is certainly true sometimes, but not always. I was sent to one of these places as a teen. My parents were educated professionals who genuinely thought they were doing the right thing by putting their trust in 'experts'. I was medicated on SSRI's and ADHD drugs for the same reason. Upper-middle class parents who want to ensure their kids follow in their footsteps, consider themselves experts due to their education, and blindly trust this system of credentialism that they see as benevolent because it has rewarded them to some extent. There were other kids from families like this there, but also parents who just wanted an easy way to wipe their hands clean of problematic kids

But I hope they sue the school for every penny all the same, because it need to be shut down somehow.

So do I, these places abuse kids and get away with it because its easier than real therapy and have no oversight

[–]IMissPorn 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I guess I can believe that. But I've known about these hellholes for years... Kinda feel like anyone considering sending their kid to one ought to know better.

[–]Alienhunter 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

People get into their bubbles and just won't ever come across the circles where people talk badly of these sorts of places, plus these kinds of parents are usually busy with work and life and tend to be susceptible to the marketing tactics. Especially if they're already susceptible to it due to stress from their kid.

It's harder to imagine now, I think the issues with drug use have become so widespread now almost none of us are really spared from the effects, but back when and still in places where drug use isn't so common there's definitely a kind of ignorant fear that some guy with a joint is going to go on a murder spree after his first time. If anything good from it comes it's that people might be a bit more sympathetic towards addiction and trying to fix the issues rather than simply demonizing the person. That said, put yourself in the position of straight edge parent the pre-internet era whose entire knowledge of drugs comes from school propoganda, you might freak out and fall for one of these in that position.