Wishing a very barbara-pit on the entire "troubled teens" industry

  • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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    1 day ago

    While I never went to one of these camps, I did spend the entirety of high school at an English style all boys boarding school on a scholarship, with the uniforms, strict rules, boarding houses and day houses, gender segregation, initiation rituals and all. The kind of school that people like British politicians and Elon Musk attended. Trust me, it's not like Harry Potter. Okay maybe it was a little bit like that, but you get the point.

    • SSJMarx@lemm.ee
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      1 day ago

      Lots of people come out of boarding school with PTSD. Shit sucks, especially because you would think that if there was one thing people would agree on it's that we should take care of our kids.

      • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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        1 day ago

        Not even going to talk about the "culture" and "socialisation" around woman teachers at these boys only boarding schools. Honestly half of those teachers need a visit from libertarian-alert. That is all I will say for now.

      • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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        1 day ago

        It's easy to agree in principle, but various traditions as well as the logic of the system of capitalism weigh extremely heavily on us, so intergenerational abuse like this keeps surviving if left alone.