Alumni and advocates are pushing for more oversight of Elevations Residential Treatment Center, part of the same company as a wilderness camp where a boy died.
      • borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        1·
        3 months ago

        Yeah, my introduction to it was a random vaguely interested click some Sunday morning in a comment chain like this, only to have my entire day and evening consumed by the comic. I powered through the entire thing in basically one sitting. I think a big driver for that was because it is such a heavy read, I just wanted that baggage contained to a single reading session and not dripped out through a week or two, subsuming entire days in just melancholy.

      • SailorMoss@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        3 months ago

        I wasn’t kidnapped in the middle of the night, but I was sent to one of these kinds of schools. Some conservative parents view their kids as their property and push to keep that as a part of law. Think about Ron Desantis parents rights to know their kinds are trans bill in FL.

        Even in the best of cases it’s not like children are experts in what is and isn’t legal. So they don’t really have the knowledge to stand up for themselves. Especially before smartphones and the internet.

        Behind the bastards did a pretty good deep dive and they work though some of the ideological justifications for these kinds of schools. They certainly helped me to understand that time in my life a little better.

  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
    13·
    3 months ago

    Can we, as a society, just agree that facilities for troubled teens aren’t worth the risk of fucking abuse?

    How many times do we need to make this mistake before we fucking learn.

    • bean@lemmy.world
      6·
      3 months ago

      “No no. You don’t understand. THIS time will be different. Nothing like all that.”

      (Money flow begins)

      “Alright you little shitstains, you’re scrubbing floors with toothbrushes today in between the obvious assaults of varying horror.”