Military Boarding Schools Can Provide Role Models
Military boarding schools or other private boarding schools are often the only opportunity that a troubled teenager has to find and focus on a positive role model.
A program aimed at teen crisis intervention in LA has been supplying role models for their delinquent teens for over 19 years. One statement by a volunteer mentor/cop is striking.
“Police sergeant Thurman MacNeal is one of 3,000 men who have trained as Role Models. As a black cop whose interactions with black boys too often involve handcuffs, he says, it can be ”discouraging because so many of these young men have so much talent it’s amazing. But because of other things that are going on with them and because those talents are not being developed . . .” The thought trails away.”
No matter it be via troubled teen boarding school or mentoring program or a small community effort, the biggest gift you can give a troubled teenager is the gift of himself. In order to do so the teen needs an environment and role models that can help them learn what their gifts, skills or interests are and then be given the programs that will help them develop those talents.
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Troubled Teen Boarding Schools