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Chelular07 t1_j61ol7a wrote

The first time I heard about the shit that goes on at troubled teen facilities it was in Teen Vogue and I was 17. Why the fuck is it that at 34 I am still reading that these places have little oversight, are harming children, and denying any wrong doing?

Also, I’m sorry but any place that charges $12000 per kid per month, then pays employees $13 and hour, is shady as fuck imo. They could pay 3 employees $25 an hour for a 40 hour work week on one student’s tuition. Yeah I know there are other costs to these facilities but they have 150 kids. That is 1.8 million dollars a month in tuition payments. Where the fuck is that money going???

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dak4f2 t1_j62cirb wrote

>Also, I’m sorry but any place that charges $12000 per kid per month, then pays employees $13 and hour, is shady as fuck imo.

Yes, and this applies to nursing homes too.

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maddieterrier t1_j63lbuv wrote

“Only medical staff members could recommend that a child be taken to a hospital, but to do so generally would have required a staff member to leave campus, putting them out of sync with state-mandated ratios of adults to children, the former staff members said.”

This kid died because they had the bare minimum number of staff.

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torpedoguy t1_j645z5p wrote

While they did have a skeleton crew they shouldn't have had, ratios like that are for normal operations.

In an emergency, taking a kid to the hospital takes priority - you're not gonna lose your accreditation or get fined for something like that... well, maybe soon under Abbott or Desantis but even then not yet AFAIK.

Otherwise you'd have to toss kids back onto the fire when the building's burning down if any of the teachers got stuck in. Which, again, entirely feasible with the legislators we have, but to my knowledge not law yet; even DeVos didn't manage to make that official.

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orbital_narwhal t1_j63rlny wrote

> $12000 per kid per month

My thoughts when I read that: they better have a staff to student ratio greater or equal to one.

For that kind of money you could easily hire a good teacher with special education qualifications that comes to your home to teach your only child for 4 hours 5 times per week.

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Chelular07 t1_j63v69i wrote

You could pay a special needs trained medical assistant to care for your child for 40hrs a week $75 and hour for that.

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Harley_Quinn_Lawton t1_j64v0u7 wrote

The schools are all about money. That much we know and understand.

My question is why are parents still sending their kids to these places and getting away with it?

In 2023 they absolutely know what kind of crap happened here and should be blamed just as much as the facility administrators if something goes wrong.

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