Topic summary
Therapeutic boarding schools
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Therapeutic boarding school.
History
Therapeutic boarding schools developed in the late 1960s alongside therapeutic communities and behavior modification programs. Early examples included CEDU (bankrupted in 2005 after repeated accusations of abuse and manslaughter and the unsolved disappearance of three students), DeSisto School (closed in 2004 following multiple accusations of fraud, child neglect, child sexual abuse, and one case of manslaughter), and Élan School (closed in 2011 after public outcry, infamous for a boxing ring where students were forced to fight one another, leading to at least one death).