What is the difference between juvenile boot camps, military schools, and boys’ ranches?
Juvenile boot camps, military schools, and boys’ ranches have grown in popularity and need in the past couple of decades. Juvenile boot camps were originally started as state correctional facilities, in place of detention and incarceration. Most are private now with a majority of teens being placed by families—not by courts. There are almost no state-run juvenile boot camps left. Military schools, which are at the other end of the spectrum, were originally founded to provide a specialized education for those seeking a future military life. Parents now use them to help straighten out their problem teenagers. The student body at a military school is still largely those seeking military life or parents seeking a private school setting for better and more disciplined academics. Working ranches, regularly require training and working with animals as part of therapy. They provide some hard-work chores to do and tasks to overcome in addition to academic excellence in education. (Educational A
