<p>I have been to the schools you’re talking about. Please listen to me, as I’ve lived this stuff.</p>
<p>Do not send your son to Utah. Do not hire an escort service to take them anywhere.</p>
<p>If you can afford it, SUWS of the Carolinas is a wilderness program where your son will have a shitty time, and he’ll hate it there. I went there and I hated it. Worst time of my life. But it changes you permanently, if you can convince him to buy into it and that he needs to get his OWN life on track. I did, but along the way, I saw parents who sent their kids to Utah and dead-end schools that, in all honesty, were just very bad places. And escort services destroy your child’s trust in you – take them to a place personally, with them knowing where they’re going, rather than gooning them.</p>
<p>I did not look like I was going to graduate high school as a sophomore. I attended SUWS and understood that I would not succeed in life unless I got my shit together, and my life has never been better, over a year later. It is a life-changing experience if you let it be, and if you make sure your son knows it’s the turning point in his life – if he takes it for what it is, he will succeed, if not, he will fail. He needs to own it.</p>