Talk:Provo Canyon School

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The term boarding school should be ommitted and replaced with Residential Treatment Center (RTC) as it is a treatment facility and in almost no way like a boarding school save that at both srudents live there. Boarding school insinuatse something entirely different than what PCS is. 71.106.89.71 19:53, 3 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"Residential Treatment Center" sounds like some marketing line. All boarding schools means is that you board or live at the school. I think it should be changed back. BJ^Talk 20:05, 3 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

After reviewing the Provo Canyon website, I support the choice of "residential treatment center" as the better terminology for this institution (although "boarding school" is not necessarily wrong). "Residential treatment center" is not a marketing term. NATSAP defines the term as follows:

Residential Treatment Centers – The focus of these programs is behavioral support. Medication management and medial monitoring is generally available on-site. These facilities treat adolescents with serious psychological and behavior issues. Most are Joint Commission (JCAHO) accredited. These facilities provide group and individual therapy sessions. They are highly structured and offer recreational activities and academics.

In contrast, NATSAP defines "therapeutic" or "emotional-growth boarding schools" as:

Boarding Schools (Emotional Growth, Therapeutic) – These schools generally provide an integrated educational milieu with an appropriate level of structure and supervision for physical, emotional, behavioral, familial, social, intellectual and academic development. These schools grant high school diplomas or award credits that lead to admission to a diploma granting secondary school. Each school will vary in their approach to the emotional and behavioral needs of the child and we urge parents to review this approach with the professional that has been working with their child to ensure appropriate placement. Placement at these boarding schools can range from 12 months to 2 years depending on the program’s therapeutic components.

--orlady 00:31, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There is only one thing. NATSAP is a private club made by the members. They are fully in their right to call the facilities in their club what they want. School, treatment facility or even hotel. Being member of NATSAP is not some kind of license. Outside the states I have not seen this term used, unless the owners are coming from the states. The term "Therapeutic Boarding School" is invented in the States.

In Denmark it is called either treatment facility or group home. We have a lot of Group homes with in-house education for either criminal youth or ill youth monitored by our department of education. What resemblance most is our continuation schools. Some of them are specific developed to care about people with ADHD, dyslexia or other problems. The only difference I can think of is that our Continuation schools lack restraints / isolation rooms, use of corporal punishment, limitation on communication with parents / friends and level systems. Covergaard (talk) 20:21, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Former Resident I went to provo canyon school in 2001. I spent nine months there. This article reads more like an advertisement for the facility. The article reviews Provo Canyon Schools success glowingly yet makes limited mention of its controversy. Upon entering the facility new residents are stripped and examined for contraband. lack of beds forced many kids to sleep on the floor. While I was there I witnessed an unruly student have his nose broke by a staffer with the staffers radio. There were also several sexual assaults by residents on residents during my tenure. The brutal nature of the facilty and its methods are not even mentioned. I dont think the article needs to be modified drastically I only ask that it be made into an honest representation of the truth. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.175.171.141 (talk) 22:00, 5 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Paris Hilton[edit]

Was it not that facility, who made Paris Hilton into that person, she is today?

Covergaard 07:56, 6 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Paris Hilton mk2[edit]

The above topic is prescient for things that came out: Hilton made strong allegations against the school that are being covered very widely. It seems to echo what exists in the "lawsuits" section but with a lot more specificity. @ZimZalaBim: removed it, stating "Her experience at the school isn't relevant to this article". I disagree. I think it's precisely what should be in an article about the school. I'm starting this thread to invite discussion on it. tedder (talk) 15:14, 24 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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