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    The 11 year-old pulled a gun on multiple people! Where TF is a 5th grade acquiring a gun?

The mom says he’s on drugs, she thinks he has psychological problems, and she can’t control him.

This kid needs to be sent to a military or remedial boarding school in the depths of Maine or Vermont for a few years to get him sorted out. Along with a full psyche eval and whatever meds are needed.

The kid is obviously a victim himself so sending him to some abusive place will not get him “sorted out” at all. If that crap worked so well we would be doing it with everyone. [/quote]

This "crap" as you call it, it EXACTLY the type of re-set that middle and upper middle class families do when they have kids going off the rails.  Yes, there are some abusive type places in that vein but there are also a lot of good ones.  We had an increasingly violent 13 yo whom we had adopted at age 8 out of a trauma background and that was exactly what we did.  After a stint in that type of environment, he came home and graduated from high school, attend trade school, and now holds down a good job.  Those type of intensive high-structure/high nurture environments are where we need to be sending youthful offenders---not re-releasing them back into the communities without consequences so their behaviors will continue to escalate.  But it has to be real therapy along with the intensively structured environment---not just a holding pen "baby" prison where kids can just learn worse behaviors from each other.   And along with shipping a kid off to a high structure environment, there needs to be a requirement that the parent/caretaker also participate in intensive therapy and monitoring, so the kid just doesn't relapse into prior behaviors once returned to the home.  Are these kinds of environments incredibly expensive to build and maintain?  Absolutely.  A good one costs as much per kid per year as sending a kid to Harvard.  But what we are doing now isn't working. 
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It sorted my stepdad out. He had gotten in a lot of trouble as a teen and was on a fast track to prison.  Instead he was sent into the army and it sorted him out and made him a decent and productive member of society.[/quote]

Doing little or nothing only  sends the wrong message and makes the situation (kid) worse. [/quote]

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