These places exist IN AMERICA, they’re completely legal, and they’re only growing. It’s the new solution for parents who have kids that don’t conform blindly to their religious and political views, let me explain: After the initial shock of what I thought was a kidnapping, it was explained to me that my parents had arranged for me to attend Horizon Academy (http://www.horizonacademy.us/) because I admitted to them that I was atheist and didn’t agree with a lot of their hateful views. Let me give you a detailed run-down of my experience here: To start off it’s a boarding school where there is literally no communication with the outside world, the people who work here can do anything they want, and the students can do absolutely nothing about it. The basic idea is that you’re not allowed to leave until you believably adopt their viewpoints and push them off on others. The minimum stay at these places is a year, an ENTIRE YEAR, that means no birthday, no christmas, no thanksgiving etc.; my stay lasted 2 years. The day to day functioning of this facility is based on a very strict set of rules and regulations: you eat what they give you, do what they tell you (often just pointless things just to brand mindless submission in your brain), and believe what they tell you to believe. Consequences for not adhering to these regulations include not eating for that day, being locked in small rooms for extended periods of time and the long term consequence of an extended stay. There’s a lot more detail and intricacies I could get into, but my main purpose was to spread awareness to the only group of people I feel like could do something about this.
Read more here: Former students of Horizon Academy share their experience with Reddit
Survivor Testimony – Horizon Academy
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“As a student enrolled in horizon academy and riverview academy i was constantly the subject of laughter and disrespect by the staff Yahia Irochen, He called himself a strong man homosexuality was unacceptable for him. As a ‘punishment’ for me being a gay guy he emotionally abused me on daily basis and told other students gay jokes about me which hurt a lot. Once when we went to a ‘Field Trip’ to the lake in (Southern Utah) i did not get in the water so he called the other guys and told am to pick me up and throw me in the water, even though i was screaming and telling them that i did not want to they still dropped me in a rocky area of the lake and as i got up i got pushed into the jagged rocks again this time by Yahia where i got hurt and bruised along with multiple cuts. He was just watching all of this and laughing. this was one of the most traumatic experiences in my life: “
Ok first off I went there for nine and a half months. The first post is BS they didn’t make you skip meals or isolate you in a room at least not while I was there. It wasn’t that bad it was just boring and the vast majority of staff were idiots and the ones that weren’t got fired for stealing and showing kids porn. Some were good. Anyways the second post is true. But they did that with everyone picture the way people talk in a locker room or a trashy bar and that’s pretty much how it was everyday. Meaning we all talked smack. That being sad you could either choose to live on and not let these things bother you or you could choose to take it harshly. But everyone harrassed one another daily. It wasn’t that bad though. It closed down in October by the way. Basically the only thing that made it non depressing was that I could still write lyrics and a lot of the staff were funny as hell. You either learned or you didn’t. If you didn’t learn you didn’t go home. I got picked on but I don’t choose to let that effect me I found a way to coap. It could’ ve been a lot worst. There was a closeness people felt if you started doing what they called working your program you learned to not care what people think and it helps.