Posted on 06/07/2002 7:13:46 AM PDT by Pokey78
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:40:21 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
If Gov. Gray Davis wants to save an easy $3 million in his budget, some say he need look no further than the empty new classrooms, vacant dorms and bloated payroll of the Turning Point Academy in San Luis Obispo.
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It is a subtle way for leftists to show disrespect for our fine military personnel, traditions, and institutions.
Is anyone else offended by this?
I say, do away with parole, let them serve every second of their sentences, and make the sentences really fit the crime.
Don't smear armed forces recruit training, which is a really noble thing to do for your country, with reform school for t\rd delinquents.
Don't call prison "boot camp".
No, not really. I served in the Marine Corps. Boot camp isn't fun for anyone (okay, maybe for a few sadistic drill instructors!). I don't have a problem putting borderline kids through programs that can instill discipline and teamwork and hopefully keep them out of prison. I do have a problem when it costs taxpayers $500,000 per kid!
Don't call prison "boot camp".
Good point, I think this sort of program has a subtle way of teaching distain for our armed services.
Participating in the service of our country is a PRIVALGE not a punishment.
That's ONE-FIFTH. In just how many months since graduation? This program is a failure.
Unfortunately, these programs don't do that. They instill displine to listen to the gangleader, teamwork to work with the gang, and the self-confidence to try anything they want.
It's kinda like DARE, which does little to curb drug use, and instead becomes a drug show-and-tell and how-to class.
LOL! You'll excuse me if I disagree?
Whenever government and government-paid program people get together with a large budget, the principle of the "Unintended Consequence" is sure to come into play. Cops see this every day with newly strong criminals, who are back in action after a short stretch in the slammer. The recidivists are bulked up from regular meals, intensive body building, and of course their drug and alcohol intake will have been somewhat curtailed. They become too strong for the cops to subdue.
Ditto anti-drug commercials, which have the unintended effect of glamorizing the forbidden.
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By the time the kids are sent to the boot camps, they've already been in and out of juvi hall several times, gaining more and more criminal knowledge each time. Also, most (50-60%) people arrested (wether juveniles or adults) are never arrested again, and the number of times arrested continue to half with each arrest, so by the third time someone is arrested, they are among the top 10-15% of all offenders.
So, they went from an 'F' to a 'C' at the cost of half a million dollars?
I think this proves no matter how much money the government spends on public schools, they will fail. If they spent half a million dollars on every school child in the nation, say several trillion dollars, they would still fail.
The anti-smoking commercials are even worse. The only decent anti-smoking commercial was put out by ydouthink.com. It said showed a teenage girl waxing her moustache, and said "Girls who smoke are 7 times more likely to have excessive facial hair." The target audience was narrower than most, but it was alot more effective IMO than the "rat poison" or "dog urine" commericals.
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