Thread: Wtf

Originally Posted by Sidney

yeah borstals ran on similar lines, but had lousy re-offending rates

Worked pretty well for a couple of my cousins who lost their fathers at a young age and ran off the rails in their teens. But like the rest of us, some will respond well to one thing, others to something else. And then there are others that will just never respond to anything.

With the youth work I do, and have done for 25 years now, we get a lot of single parent kids coming along that are quickly heading in the wrong direction. They push boundaries, get disruptive, destructive, obnoxious, ... but we never give up on them. Often it will take 6-7 years but with persistence, insistence, and leadership they do respond. The difficulty is that fewer and fewer are willing to put in the effort nowadays, but having seen the difference it makes to the lives of those we deal with the only way out for me will be feet first in a pine box.