We used to call them boarding schools or workhouses; only here, it is the state who uses them to warehouse lost and desperate kids. They have no family ever to come home to. No love, no home, no family. I can't think of a better formula to wreck a child, can you?
We have a lot of poignant literature about boarding schools. Oliver Twist, for instance. C. S. Lewis wrote angrily about his boarding school, which he called "Bergen-Belsen" in honor of the German concentration camp.
In the case of the DSS, there's little doubt the "schools" will teach welfare dependence, and it's a cinch they will NOT teach the moral values required for responsible adulthood.
Interesting development: Your link was functional but just turned into a demand for one to register for boston.com. That means I can't go back and get more quotes from this mush-mouthed fellow telling the DSS not to go so fast in getting rid of its little concentration camps.
I just noticed the same when going back to find out what a megan tench was. But I found a solution. Apparently the Boston.com-mies have found a trick to thwart revisits, but the solution is simple. Reboot your computer to clear it and recheck. Voila! c'est vachement utile..
The Los Angeles Times ran a smear piece on orphanages, way back when. There were so many letters refuting this, that they had to publish them. An orphanage isn't exactly fun, but they were safe and functional, unlike many foster homes these days. Most of the orphanages were run by churches and charities.
I wish I was up to researching exactly why orphanages were closed down in favor of this present system.