They often cannot get services locally, cannot get kids into anything in patient, cannot get discipline going.
It's a weird dichotomy. You let your kid walk to park alone, you could face jail time. You send them to one of these camps, no issues.
In addition to criticizing these program's I'd love to see better suggested options for often desperate parents, especially for kids who are a bit older.
A lot of bad actors, but these schools have an opening sometimes where other systems are not stepping up.
After reading this and the previous thread on these programs, I really get the impression that this is the fundamental driver behind it. Some people in comments try to paint a picture of desperate parents at their wits end taken in by the program's lies, but these kids didn't wake up one day and decide to have a lot of problems. I strongly suspect that most were simply neglected and abused by horrible parents that had them and didn't want them and did a shit job being a parent to them because they are narcissistic assholes, the sort of shit people that American society churns out with ever increasing frequency. That sort of people believe things that sound like easy fixes for their years of failure to actually be a good parent, and the child suffers even more for it.