This has no actual real theory behind it, but I was just thinking how cool it'd be if prison abolitionists brought in therapeutic boarding schools into their movement too. I was rather "liberal" most of my adolescence but when I was in one of these fucked up places, I remember thinking "Wow prisons should never have existed" because it felt like that -- a prison. Going back, that's probably one of the few experiences that made me realize how fucked the system is.
Idk I just think it'd be a wonderful collab of two movements and their goals fit so well together.
Also idk where to put this with main is gone so since c/cth is the new main yall can deal with it
I went to a a really discriminatory boarding school for high school (13-18). The brainwashing is real. It's almost cult like with its policies and internal politics.
CW: racism and sexual violence, abuse, physical violence. Seriously don't read this, it's worse than you think.
The school was really racist towards black kids. Soccer wasn't allowed as a sport, because it was seen as a "black sport" they would never admit to that, and come up with 500 reasons why soccer wasn't allowed, but it ultimately boiled down to that.
Also the older kids were put defacto in charge of the younger kids, which led to regular beatings, physical violence and terrible initiation nonsense. The place tried to brainwash us into thinking it was "the best school in the world", and so forth.
Also it was discovered a teacher was guilty of statutory rape of students and the school covered it up after "letting her leave on her own terms" . Another teacher was guilty of sexually assaulting and harassing women teachers and they also covered it up after "he found another job". Absolutely vile.
Abolish strict boarding schools and the troubled teen industry. Absolutely vile places.