Beyond Scared Straight is a TV series where children with severe behavioral problems are taken to a jailing facility, and forced to live like a prisoner. They are treated like prisoners, they experience prison life, and they also get chewed out by current prisoners of the facility. The inmates do agree to act and fake the entire situation, but the show is not a scripted show. How do you all feel about this program? Parents that feel their children are insubordinate are able to send their children to this program, and this is what happens. Here is a short video of some of the wildest moments on the show:

 

Edited May 5, 201510 yr by PeetePanda
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I personally completely agree with this. It's useful and works most of the time.

I agree with the idea, but we also need to let rebellious teens be rebellious teens. If a teenager is just going through a phase, I think its totally wrong for their parents to subject them to a national reality TV show.

*sigh*. Just ship them off to the military. After one week they won't be able to shit without sitting on the throne at the position of attention.

 

Plus we don't have officers that are "acting" on camera. Like when the CO dumps the food tray. 

 

 

Edited May 6, 201510 yr by Pavelow

*sigh*. Just ship them off to the military. After one week they won't be able to shit without sitting on the throne at the position of attention.

 

Plus we don't have officers that are "acting" on camera. Like when the CO dumps the food tray. 

 

 

While I do understand what you're saying, I don't think they should be sent to the military. The military isn't some backup plan for a mother and fathers piss poor parenting job. You couldn't raise your children correctly, so you send them to the military? Not sure about other countries, but the military is entirely volunteer. No one was held at gunpoint under the law and forced to join with a consequence of jail if they refused. Maybe back then, but not today. If your insubordinate child refuses to join the military, then what? Are you going to send them off without their permission? That's not exactly legal, and I don't think many people would appreciate it. 

While I do understand what you're saying, I don't think they should be sent to the military. The military isn't some backup plan for a mother and fathers piss poor parenting job. You couldn't raise your children correctly, so you send them to the military? Not sure about other countries, but the military is entirely volunteer. No one was held at gunpoint under the law and forced to join with a consequence of jail if they refused. Maybe back then, but not today. If your insubordinate child refuses to join the military, then what? Are you going to send them off without their permission? That's not exactly legal, and I don't think many people would appreciate it. 

The problem I have with Scared Straight is:

1)it's entirely truly scripted in which case the kids don't learn much 

Or

2) it's not scripted,and  you're enabling felons to act like they do with no consequences. I fail to see how a 40 year old man who has committed 3 murders yelling at 13 year old that he'll kill him is anything but traumatizing. 

 

I still support military school. Sadly they've toned it down in the last 5 years. They used to yell a lot. Although, I believe the Marines still put on "mock" boot camps around the country for like 2 weeks that anybody could go through. 

The problem I have with Scared Straight is:

1)it's entirely truly scripted in which case the kids don't learn much 

Or

2) it's not scripted,and  you're enabling felons to act like they do with no consequences. I fail to see how a 40 year old man who has committed 3 murders yelling at 13 year old that he'll kill him is anything but traumatizing. 

 

I still support military school. Sadly they've toned it down in the last 5 years. They used to yell a lot. Although, I believe the Marines still put on "mock" boot camps around the country for like 2 weeks that anybody could go through. 

I said that I don't support bad parents sending their children to the military as a last resort. I have nothing against an actual military or military based school. 

 

Also, the purpose is to scare them. It's to teach them that if they go about breaking the law, they'll end up in the same cell as someone that murdered people. Plus if you had watched the entire video, most of the prisoners weren't just yelling in their faces. The prisoners were teaching them valuable life lessons. The hostilities the kids received was reinforcing the idea of " hey, you really don't want to be here". I see nothing wrong with this program, even if it is scripted. It changes people's lives and I think it should continue ten fold. This program gives some of these bad kids a wake up call to reality, and that's the most important thing. 

Edited May 6, 201510 yr by PeetePanda

I said that I don't support bad parents sending their children to the military as a last resort. I have nothing against an actual military or military based school. 

 

Also, the purpose is to scare them. It's to teach them that if they go about breaking the law, they'll end up in the same cell as someone that murdered people. Plus if you had watched the entire video, most of the prisoners weren't just yelling in their faces. The prisoners were teaching them valuable life lessons. The hostilities the kids received was reinforcing the idea of " hey, you really don't want to be here". I see nothing wrong with this program, even if it is scripted. It changes people's lives and I think it should continue ten fold. This program gives some of these bad kids a wake up call to reality, and that's the most important thing. 

Some of these kids, the ones that are in gangs already, aren't scared at all. To them it's a part of life as they know, and they'll have some of their "homies" waiting for them. I do agree that it works to an extent, but it's not teaching them anything. I think their thinking behind it is right but their execution is completely flawed. 

I couldn't stop laughing that guy made him comb his chest hair. LMAO!

 

I agree with the idea, but we also need to let rebellious teens be rebellious teens. If a teenager is just going through a phase, I think its totally wrong for their parents to subject them to a national reality TV show. 

What do you mean let them be rebellious? So I should just let my child sneak out of the house whenever he wants to, smoke whenever he wants to, sag whenever he wants to? Absolutely not, if my child is doing something I deemed not right, then it s not. 

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What do you mean let them be rebellious? So I should just let my child sneak out of the house whenever he wants to, smoke whenever he wants to, sag whenever he wants to? Absolutely not, if my child is doing something I deemed not right, then it s not. 

​I'm not going to tell you how to be a parent, but a fundamental part of growing up is making mistakes and learning from them. That doesn't mean you should let things like that happen.

​I'm not going to tell you how to be a parent, but a fundamental part of growing up is making mistakes and learning from them. That doesn't mean you should let things like that happen.

Or you can teach your child not to make a certain mistake, and explain them the consequences of making said mistake, so that they don't make said mistake to begin with. 

Or you can teach your child not to make a certain mistake, and explain them the consequences of making said mistake, so that they don't make said mistake to begin with. 

​If only that worked with most teenagers haha

​If only that worked with most teenagers haha

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