Original story Remember, these are "schools" that parents spend thousands of dollars to send their kids to.
When you are actively starved, you'll eat a lot of things. Dysfunctional children, especially teens, are one of the most difficult mental health groups to work with. Too often are residential therapy programmes seen by parents as a convenient place to dump their wayward kids for someone else to straighten them out, and to deny and abdicate their own responsibilities in their upbringing at the same time. It is not a field for unlicensed amateurs with a penchant for wilderness camping and a belief that all a kid needs is some firm discipline.
But he wasn't starved. He had: an apple for breakfast, a carrot for lunch and a bowl of beans for dinner Ok, its not a quarterpounder with cheese, but its a lot more than a lot of the world's population get, and they're not eating their own country to stave off hunger pangs....
True but it depends what they had the kids doing, Its likely they had them doing alot of exersise and he just burnt more fuel than he was getting. (you try eating just that, for 3 days and I bet you will be hungery, as were used to a lot more food than that.)
On top of which he was doing heavy physical activity which burns off a lot of calories. What he ate would not even have covered the basic calorific requirements for metabolic processes at rest. But I think it was the dehydration that did him in. Aren't they? You have been looking at the sanitised pictures in Oxfam commercials.
Dehydration for sure. you can go a while without food but water is a different story. If I spend even one day in really hot weather I make sure to bring a lot of water with me. I feel bad for the kids, I mean sure the parents are at their wits end when they send them there but maybe if they had done a better job when the kids were younger then they wouldn't be so messed up when they get older. Of course I shouldn't judge though, I dont know the circumstances that they grew up in.
