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The measure provides that unlicensed schools would be overseen by a new board, with more than half of its members representing Christian schools, instead of the state.
“This bill raises a lot of serious concerns,” said Rep. Rudy Veit, R-Wardsville, a co-sponsor of the 2021 legislation. “It basically looks like an attempt to undo a lot of what we did three years ago. ”
So-called transport services deliver kids to boarding schools — sometimes in handcuffs.
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Many are concerned with transport companies whose agents often show up at homes in the middle of the night — with the parents’ consent — dragging scared youth out of bed, sometimes restraining them with handcuffs and threatening physical force if they don’t comply. They then cart them off to boarding schools across the country.
Campaigners who successfully got a girls' school in Missouri closed now want a nearby boys' boarding school shuttered too.