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res30stupid t1_j61lah0 wrote

Reply to comment by Trixgrl in Boarding school ignored teen’s sickness complaints before she died, ex-staff say by ninjascotsman

There's also a really fucked-up webcomic which is the author's autobiographical account of being forced to go to one of these. It's called "Joe VS Elan School" and the school is sadly still open.

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NovaNebula t1_j61lj5z wrote

Elan closed in 2011.

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res30stupid t1_j61lylq wrote

Well, thank fucking God. When I read it, the author warned the school was still open at the time of writing (and a friend he tried to rescue was now a drug addict and recruit for the school).

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RSquared t1_j62510f wrote

The behind the bastards podcast on Elan drew heavily from the comic but gave greater context to just how horrible the "schools" were, including the kidnapping tactics used on children to get them there.

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ninjascotsman OP t1_j61nye9 wrote

that is correct the crazy thing about elan is that it was accredited by National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs which acccredits most of troubled teen programs

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Fryceratops t1_j63g7of wrote

It is almost as if that organization lacks credibility.

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Great_Hamster t1_j6698ek wrote

But didn't it reopen under another name?

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NovaNebula t1_j66j2wa wrote

Not that I can tell. There's no record of it doing so. That may have happened to a different school.

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