From the Bend Bulletin, November 27, 2009 It’s been difficult to read recent news articles about Mount Bachelor Academy , the private therapeutic boarding school in Crook County ordered closed by the Oregon Department of Human Services earlier this month. If discussions in my office are typical, reports of what allegedly went on there leave […]
From the Bend Bulletin, November 17, 2009 The experiences of five former students at Mount Bachelor Academy formed the basis of the state’s allegations of abuse and neglect at the private school for troubled teens, a recently released investigative report revealed. The report, by the Oregon Department of Human Services Office of Investigation and Training, […]
From the Bend Bulletin, November 15, 2009 Ever unconventional, long controversial – The school’s history is a twisted one, involving atypical therapy methods and company mergers, good intentions and success stories, but also cases of what some, including the state, call abuse. The story behind the academy’s closure. An era ended when Mount Bachelor Academy […]
From the Columbian, March 19, 1998 Four ex-employees and two parents allege that high-risk students of a private academy were deprived of sleep, subjected to obscenity-laced tirades and forced to work in near-freezing temperatures overnight. Officials of the Mount Bachelor Academy, which touts its highly structured environment for troubled teen-agers, deny the accusations. But the […]
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