Tranquility Bay--"Yeah, that's not child abuse."

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FeceMan
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,11913,987172,00.html

http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,5500,987933,00.html

Also known as "That's not going to damage someone for life", "Lazy parents ought to be beaten", and "North Korea is a good role model".

I'm not sure if being sent here would encourage me to go on a killing spree or not. Probably. Especially since this line stuck out to me the most:



I hope the irony isn't lost on anyone.

It kind of reminds me of A Wrinkle in Time's retraining facility, with the kid who didn't bounce the ball correctly who was basically tortured until he got it right.

Lumanix
What.

The.

****!?

FeceMan
Quick, vote now!

Lumanix
I don't get it. erm I feel inadequate.

Lumanix
I just read that entire article and vomitted.

silver_tears
That was an amazingly well written article. I feel as if it's too late at night for me to make a coherent reply to it, so I'll let others before I have a go.

Robtard
'Parents sign a legal contract with Tranquility Bay granting 49 per cent custody rights. It permits the Jamaican staff, whose qualifications are not required to exceed a high-school education , to use whatever physical force they feel necessary to control their child. The contract also waives Tranquility's liability for harm that should befall a child in its care. The cost of sending a child here ranges from $25,000 to $40,000 a year.'

Screw that, if I am giving away 49% of my legal rights to my own child and those people are free from harm, meaning they can do whatever they like (beat, rape, molest) to my child and I am paying 25-40k a year, I want to at least know professionals and properly educated people are teaching my child.

PVS
isnt there a camp they can send unfit parents to?

Madman_V3N0M
WTF?! I knew american parents were stupid but this is like something out of a horror movie!
I mean paying someone with no training what so ever a wad of cash to brainwash your kid and make them obey by means that are not even applyed to criminals?!
I once saw something like this in a movie a long time ago and I thought that was so stupid and unrealistic(and I was 10 at that time)! WTF!?

PVS
i think this is the most sickening part:

Jim Mozingo got the result he wanted. Twenty months after sending his son Josh away, he arrived from North Carolina to collect him. Mozingo has four sons, an insurance company, and is a good example of a typical Tranquility parent. Divorced from Josh's mother, busy, wealthy, he found Tranquility by typing 'defiant teen' into the internet.
'I tell you, I was at my wits' end with my son. We'd tried military school, but he got kicked out. He never got into trouble with the police. He was one step from that. What it was is, he was going through this identity crisis. Peer pressure. Pot got involved.'

POT GOT INVOLVED fear

MY GOD!!!! LOCK UP THE NEIGHBORS' KIDS!!!! WE GOT A HARDENED CRIMINAL!!!

better send your son to prison for two years so you can open up more work time and get richer. he's a busy man, but felt it prudent to knock his ex-wife up FOUR TIMES. we're led to believe that these are all hardened criminals incapable of redemption by conventional means (functional or even attempted parenting) but in fact its lazy parenting, or a complete lack of.

i guess we should feel sorry for poor ol' dad, since he was 'at his wits end' after trying so many times to send his children away so that he wouldnt have to parent or deal with them in any way. poor poor man. this guy should have his testicles pulled off with a pair of rusty plyers...imho.

PeterGriffin
Originally posted by PVS
What it was is, he was going through this identity crisis. Peer pressure. Pot got involved.'


Like zOMG! Teenager going through identity crisis with peer pressure alert! Quick, someone kidnap them in the middle of the night and send them to a Nazi camp for a few years without any socialising so when they are released they wont have any idea on the world or public interaction! But at least they'll know when to say please and thank you! fear

FeceMan
I'm taking my favorite quotes from the article.

FeceMan
It is not my duty to decide who deserves life and who deserves death, but surely as the sun will rise tomorrow, I would give them death.

PVS
question: do you think such methods would be useful if utilised in the prison system as opposed to kidnapping children of disfuntional and negligent parents?

Lord Urizen
This is such bullshit...i cannot beleive something like that is aloud to be....Jamaica is a fkn fest of violence, isnt it ?

Grimm22
So insteed of doing ACTUAL parenting they just send their kids off to prison?!? What the f**k?

These sound like the same people who want to ban videogames

FeceMan
Originally posted by PVS
question: do you think such methods would be useful if utilised in the prison system as opposed to kidnapping children of disfuntional and negligent parents?
Useful? Yes. Ethical? I'd say it would be a case-by-case basis for judging that.

FeceMan
http://www.break.com/index/kid_almost_falls_out_of_ride.html

Speaking of bad parents...

Madman_V3N0M
I cannot post a big enough WTF!? to express what I feel.

PVS
Originally posted by FeceMan
http://www.break.com/index/kid_almost_falls_out_of_ride.html

Speaking of bad parents...

yeah, that lady just creeped the hell out of me.
nothing says "OMG FUNNY HAHAHAHAHA!!!" like a child screaming in pain and repeating "help me, im stuck" and "this hurts" over and over.

off topic though, unless the mother decided to send him to prison camp, because she feels that her kid is 'out of control' for bothering her with his petty and insubordinate pleas for help.

:edit: my god...did you read the comments? the internet has convinced me that the marority of people are not worthy of the air they breath. "ZOMG FAT LOLZZZZ!!!!111"

FeceMan
Zomg fat lolz.

I hate people.

Lord Urizen
Originally posted by FeceMan
Zomg fat lolz.

I hate people.

Now you're officially a True Conservative Christian ! big grin

FeceMan
Originally posted by Lord Urizen
Now you're a person with at least a half-functioning moral barometer.
I agree.

Lord Urizen
Originally posted by FeceMan
I agree.

How pathetic that u feel the need to reword my phrases in an attempt to dance around the statement, and change the subject. no

FeceMan
Originally posted by Lord Urizen
How pathetic that u feel the need to reword my phrases in an attempt to dance around the statement, and change the subject. no
How pathetic that you didn't understand that the rewording of the statement is more or less the same thing that I would have said anyway.

xmarksthespot
My moral barometer currently reads 78 kPa. Strange weather we're having.

PVS
urizen, why dont you stay out of political discussion. the left needs you like the right needs whob. get it?

FeceMan
Originally posted by PVS
urizen, why dont you stay out of political discussion. the left needs you like the right needs whob. get it?
I'll save him the time of a reply.

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