The Right Place at the Right Time
They are up at around 6 AM and back to bed by 10. Their day is structured, with each hour allocated either to school work or other program work. They are troubled teens who wanted freedom and their own way and have lost both.
To some troubled teens, being placed in a troubled teen boarding school will be tantamount to being imprisoned. For those teens whose parents never imposed much discipline, this will be classified as extremely cruel and unusual punishment. That is what they will tell parents in the beginning anyway.
Some teens actually believe that they would no longer have to do schoolwork. They are rudely surprised that in the majority of boarding schools and military schools, like Tipton or Meadowlark, that academics are a major part of their day with a demand for an 80% or higher grade in order to progress to each new assignment.
Some teens imagine that they will hang out in cells with their”bro”, shooting the breeze, playing cards, talking smack. These teens are especially dismayed to find themselves at the end of a broom sweeping grounds or at the end of a pair or reins helping out with the horses.
A credible and comprehensive boarding school will touch your troubled teenager’s life in all the areas that they do not want to be touched in. Freedom, authority and discipline.
If all goes well, a good treatment program will have taught the teen that if he masters his behavior in these three areas that he has written himself a very powerful check to cash in when entering back into his regular teenage existence.
Whatever your troubled teen may have imagined boarding school to be, they will find themselves wrong, but ultimately, in the end, they’ll know it was the right place at the right time.
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