What the heck does the boarding school angle have to do with anything? Journalism sucks these days.
This boarding school has been in a lot of trouble recently. 5 staff members going to court for assault and recently their doctor? Dr. David Smock went on the run for sex offenses. He was caught in Arkansas hanging out with the Fouke Monster. He’s now back in Missouri recovering from covid with last I read about 13 charges.
From the article:
“Schrag said he, Caballero and another student were the subjects of a violent restraint by several staff members at Agape in April 2007.
Schrag told The Star in October 2020 about the incident and described it in testimony he sent to Missouri lawmakers last year as they held hearings on a bill which later passed and gives the state more oversight over unlicensed boarding schools.
Schrag also testified in person at one of the legislative hearings in Jefferson City. In his written testimony, Schrag said Caballero had been taken from the dorm into a hallway for rolling a fake marijuana joint out of paper. Then, Schrag said, he and another student were sent to the hallway as well.
“As I walked out of the dorm of about 175 boys I was met in the hallway by 5 staff members and one student (Roland Caballero) who had a bloody nose, two black eyes, his shirt was shredded and arms were bruised due to a restraint he had just received for rolling a fake joint,” Schrag wrote in his statement.
He said the three were then accused of plotting an escape and when they refused to give staffers the answer they wanted, they were restrained and repeatedly punched in the face, kicked and slammed to the floor.”
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These are teenagers...some kids as young as 7 but mostly 12 to 17 that this school does this to. Now you wonder why this happened Houston? Sounds more like Agape Fight Club than a boarding school
The number of times any news director has said, “Only use it if you can find a local angle” is infinite!