Posted on Oct 10, 2015
Will taking sanctuary at a Military School help our troubled teens?
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Taking Sanctuary at a Military School will this help our troubled teens?
RP Members with all the recent shootings at schools could this be a fix?
Sometimes, rigor, structure, and healthy habits are what it takes to get a struggling teen back on track. But will the impact disappear once graduates reenter the outside world?
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/10/grizzly-school-military-discipline/409645/
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif.—For the first-time spectator, the commencement ceremony for Grizzly Youth Academy probably looks strange. The students are wearing gray uniforms instead of graduation gowns, and they’re following their flag-bearing platoon leader across a parking lot, marching in cadence, instead of following a teacher across a lawn in perfect silence. Grizzly is a public charter boarding school that, along with another three dozen or so institutions participating in the National Guard’s Youth ChalleNGe Program, uses a “quasi-military” style of discipline to help students with a history of failure at traditional schools. After 22 weeks of classes, the “cadets” commemorate their accomplishments by parading in formation, doing synchronized push-ups, and shouting out to their family members.
RP Members with all the recent shootings at schools could this be a fix?
Sometimes, rigor, structure, and healthy habits are what it takes to get a struggling teen back on track. But will the impact disappear once graduates reenter the outside world?
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/10/grizzly-school-military-discipline/409645/
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif.—For the first-time spectator, the commencement ceremony for Grizzly Youth Academy probably looks strange. The students are wearing gray uniforms instead of graduation gowns, and they’re following their flag-bearing platoon leader across a parking lot, marching in cadence, instead of following a teacher across a lawn in perfect silence. Grizzly is a public charter boarding school that, along with another three dozen or so institutions participating in the National Guard’s Youth ChalleNGe Program, uses a “quasi-military” style of discipline to help students with a history of failure at traditional schools. After 22 weeks of classes, the “cadets” commemorate their accomplishments by parading in formation, doing synchronized push-ups, and shouting out to their family members.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
Capt Seid Waddell Since our society has changed so much in the area of parent discipline it does give the "Time-Out" parents an option.
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Capt Seid Waddell
COL Mikel J. Burroughs, sir, my father instilled discipline and respect for authority in us from an early age, and it became the default condition as we got older.
Back then teachers or other parents in the neighborhood corrected us when we got out of line and my father enhanced that correction as soon as he heard about it.
Kids don't seem to get that as much today from their parents, neighbors, or schools; they seem to be more cut adrift to shift on their own without guidance. What we see today is the result of childish thinking with adult consequences.
Back then teachers or other parents in the neighborhood corrected us when we got out of line and my father enhanced that correction as soon as he heard about it.
Kids don't seem to get that as much today from their parents, neighbors, or schools; they seem to be more cut adrift to shift on their own without guidance. What we see today is the result of childish thinking with adult consequences.
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It would certainly teach them life skills many us learned through the military. But we must remember the lesson from the Army's lowering of standards in 03...when you recruit thugs and gang bangers...you wnd up with soldiers who are thugs and gang bangers.
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I believe it will help some of them, but not all of them...but it certainly is a GREAT avenue to try and get them back onto the right path.
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