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SavannahEngineer t1_j3zlgae wrote

This place was terrible. The entire industry is awful.

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campersin t1_j41agpe wrote

Last Podcast on the Left just started a series on it. These sort of schools were allowed to do the most horrific things to students - dumping fecal matter over kids heads, rape, public nudity for humiliation in front of adults, violent ‘boxing’ matches, and straight up murder.

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SavannahEngineer t1_j41awio wrote

Netflix is working on a documentary of another school that shutdown a few years ago. It should be released late spring/early summer. I've heard that the interviews were so troubling that members of the film crew got PTSD just from filming it.

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Browne888 t1_j41sjqn wrote

I believe Behind the Bastard did a series on them as well. I can't remember the name though so perhaps they were two separate schools...

Edit: Not the same school, it was Elan School which had very similar practices.

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forestrox t1_j42kye5 wrote

Mayble Elan School. There is an incredible site done by a former inmate/student. Very much worth the read.

https://elan.school

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Browne888 t1_j42m2ss wrote

ya that's the one. Guess I just assumed it'd be the same one because it was so bad and so similar to this one.

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forestrox t1_j42myrx wrote

That’s the horrible part, these places are far too common.

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