• Our Students
• Honesty
  
• Whom We Work With  
• Action Items for Chapter 1
• Zero Tolerance Policy 

 

Our Students

Typically, the School works with students who show potential, but who may be struggling in their home, school, or community.  Prior to coming to the School, many of our students are determined to “do their own thing” regardless of whom they hurt, or how they may affect their own future.  Even though most of our students come from good homes, many are unappreciative and critical of their parents.  Often, the students show very little respect for even the smallest of rules, standards, or values established by their parents.  Some are downright rude and belligerent toward their parents and siblings.  In many cases, the more the parents try to help them, the more they become resistant and openly oppositional.  Parents begin to realize that they must take some form of action, because unless they do, their child’s behavior could result in some very serious problems (perhaps with the law), or dangerous situations for the child.  At this stage, a highly structured environment such as that offered by the School becomes essential.  Without such a controlled environment, the parents’ attempts to intervene against their child’s destructive behaviors would be futile and could even result in the destruction of the whole family structure.

Does this description sound all-too-familiar?

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Honesty

As we talk to your student, will he or she accept responsibility for being here, or will he or she either be in denial or even blame you and others for being here?

Most of our students have struggled with honesty in one form or another.  Honesty issues not only include outright lying, but also many other kinds of deception. For example, does your child:

• Sneak out and go somewhere other than where he/she says?
• Pretend to have done his/her homework?
• Confess to minor misdeeds, while hiding major ones?
• Do something that he/she knows you would strictly forbid?
• Take or borrow something without permission?
• Misrepresent the truth to you?

All of the preceding examples are examples of unacceptable, dishonest behaviors.  It is one of the School’s major goals to work with students to develop high standards of honesty and integrity.

Has honesty ever been a problem for your child? Does he or she ever misrepresent the truth?

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Whom We Work With

The School is not recommended for students who are suicidal, psychotic, violent, assaultive, diabetic, schizophrenic, highly depressed, and/or who have significant mental and emotional problems, drug addictions, or traumatic brain injury.

We can recommend good treatment programs for these types of students.  Some of these types of issues are hard to identify, but in the rare cases where we identify them after the student has been enrolled, we may need to refer the student to a treatment program (please refer to the Zero Tolerance Policy). Such referrals are rare, especially when students understand that their extreme misbehavior will not result in them being sent home, but instead may actually delay their return home.

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Action items for Chapter 1

Please FAX or email to the School one or more paragraphs that describe

1. Your reasons for enrolling your child in the School, and
2. The kinds of honesty problems that your child has displayed. 

The school has a zero tolerance policy against acts of violence and physical aggression as well as other dangerous, severely disruptive, or extremely defiant behavior exhibited by any student.  These behaviors are not tolerated at the school for the following reasons:

• Endangers students, staff, and the School
  
• Distracts and significantly impedes the progress of others
• Destructivbe to the general environment and positive peer culture
• Consumes staff time and attention, cheating the other students
• Allows negative role models for new or impressionable students
  
• Influences other students to similarly misbehave or act out
  

• Students who are physically aggressive or seriously threaten other students, staff, or property.
• Students who have to be physically restrained for their own safety or the safety of others.
• Students that require staff one to one intervention for longer than 8 hours or have numerous episodes requiring staff one to one intervention over a period of three days or more.
• Students who leave or are intently determined to leave the facility without permission.

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