Q&A: Bachelor Academy Students Talk About Their Experience

Published 5:00 pm Sunday, July 10, 2011

Nine former students of the closed Mount Bachelor Academy are suing over their treatment there. 

The boarding school was meant to turn troubled teens around with a therapeutic process called Life Steps.  It involved re-enacting traumatic events.  

In 2009 the state of Oregon found evidence of child abuse and neglect at the school.  Its license was  suspended, and the school closed. 

The allegations of abuse never resulted in any prosecutions, but Mount Bachelor Academy never re-opened. 

Critics and supporters spoke to host David Miller on OPB’s Think Out Loud

Monday morning.  We’ll hear excerpts of that conversation.

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