I did read the article and others fawning about a visit they had, and I am remain pretty dubious. These places always have huge staffing problems, particularly when they're situated in the middle of nowhere, and if you can even get the kids to go to one of few classrooms, there are no assessments of education level so they get dumped in a one size fits all basic class teaching kids aged 13 to 17. Sex segregation intensifies those problems too.
I agree the comparison to Hitler is unhelpful, particularly because everyone thinks about extermination camps and not concentration camps, of which the earlier iterations are pretty similar to most detention facilities.
I was reading that they're usually placed with family too, so it's unclear to me why more resources aren't put into that component - apparently they only just started subsiding transport to take the kids to their placements too?
I did read the article and others fawning about a visit they had, and I am remain pretty dubious. These places always have huge staffing problems, particularly when they're situated in the middle of nowhere, and if you can even get the kids to go to one of few classrooms, there are no assessments of education level so they get dumped in a one size fits all basic class teaching kids aged 13 to 17. Sex segregation intensifies those problems too.
I agree the comparison to Hitler is unhelpful, particularly because everyone thinks about extermination camps and not concentration camps, of which the earlier iterations are pretty similar to most detention facilities.
I was reading that they're usually placed with family too, so it's unclear to me why more resources aren't put into that component - apparently they only just started subsiding transport to take the kids to their placements too?