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3 books that seek to offer hope and help in dealing with life's problems
2005
Overview
To capture how teenagers break down and how they are fixed, [David L. Marcus] follows a group of troubled students at an elite, therapeutic boarding school, the Academy at Swift River in the bucolic hills of western Massachusetts. Students go to Swift River for 14 months, commencing with a wilderness experience and concluding with a five- week service-learning project in rural Costa Rica. The cost: a tidy 5,000 per month. Although Marcus does not fully underline the irony, Swift River and its corporate parent, the Aspen Education Group, reflect the same franchised, status-oriented culture that he deplores. This is, as he notes, form of parenting-by-proxy, outsourcing child-rearing to specialists. Marcus does not reject the need for such therapeutic schools, but these institutions do remind us of the failures of poorly prepared parents.
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Tribune Publishing Company, LLC
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