| The public school system of the present day is not | | | | Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Your |
| entirely equipped to handle troubled teens. Parents | | | | teen will receive military style structure, physical fitness, |
| sometimes turn to military schools to discipline and | | | | leadership inputs, and overall help to become |
| educate their troubled teenagers. Military schools are | | | | successful in life. |
| generally privately owned and operated prep schools | | | | Military schools for troubled teens do not usually offer |
| modeled after United States military colleges and | | | | or make available, appropriate therapy or other types |
| universities. Military schools have been around for | | | | of psychological interventions for these struggling, |
| decades and were the answer for many parents who | | | | troubled teens. The disciplinary nature of these schools |
| had teens who were defiant, failing in school and | | | | without working on any underlying emotional problems |
| abusing drugs. Military schools were popular because | | | | could prove harmful to some troubled teenagers who |
| they inculcated two foremost characteristics that | | | | are truly suffering from emotional or behavioral |
| parents sought for their children: structure and discipline. | | | | problems. Although the child might begin to show an |
| It seems as if military schools are back in style. | | | | improvement in behavior when under the strict |
| Military schools are most appropriate and beneficial for | | | | supervision of the school authorities, parents will often |
| children and teenagers who do not struggle from any | | | | see a total reversal a few weeks after the child |
| significant underlying emotional or behavioral problems, | | | | returns home for a summer break or other vacations. |
| but just necessitate more structure and discipline in | | | | Military schools for troubled youth are effective |
| their lives. These boarding schools, however, are not | | | | alternatives to traditional military academies. In most |
| designed to deal with troubled teens? emotional | | | | cases, these schools will not accept your child if he |
| problems, and most do not have special educational | | | | she is not willing to be there, and only in extreme |
| programs for students with learning disabilities such as | | | | cases, will he/she be expelled. |