[raybbr]

All well reasoned responses. Just like the proposal they don't address the rood cause - lack of responsibility from the parental units. That must be addressed before any program can claim success in dealing with this issue.

[DugwayDuke]

These boarding schools seem to be a way of adressing those root causes, ie, dysfunctional families. I’m just not sure that those proposing these schools fully grasp the implications on the welfare system, etc.

Back in the days of my youth, when Mommy was a drug addicted prostitute, she wasn’t given welfare. She was allowed to go her own way and her children became wards of the state in strictly run orphanages where they were clothed, fed, properly educated, and installed with a spirit of discipline. These boarding schools are nothing more than the state orphanage revisited.