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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What a mess. look at what this 13 year old did in Georgia. These are kids in distress sending up flares with their antisocial behavior, and society doesn't help them or itself. It's time to bring back reform school, humane reform school that actually reforms. Kids go in, and don't come out until a parole type board with teachers, social workers, judge, community members -whatever- meet and assesses their progress and that they have met standards -like GED, job training, counseling - that will serve them socially.[/quote]

No, boarding school or military and integrated back into the community. I don't support permanently having the government be in control of someone's life. There should be constraints on the government as well as the child. But realistically society has depreciated because the government refuses to provide quality food production, wholistic wrap around services and money for all working mothers no matter economics and capitalism forces this country to have inequality so this is what happens when you continually punish the poor. [/quote]

That's fine - I just think that there should be conditions met for release, otherwise you get an extended stay. The problem with youth reform is there are some kids who go in, refuse to use the services, fight other kids, and are released as hardened criminals once their "time is up" who have no social,.academic or job schools compared to their peers. They are also young, and have a long criminal pathway ahead of them because they didn't learn anything worthwhile in their formative years. And that pathway will involve preying on others. Accounting for disabilities etc. , there should be at least a tacked on time (another year or two) if the kid does not pursue fruitful academic, job skills and counseling pathways  (to their best ability) while "in".. I don't care if they're at a boarding school - same applies. Not sure how you would evaluate it - maybe the same way teachers are evaluated - holistically. No one thing tanks it, but a total lack of effort would.[/quote]

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