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A for-profit youth rehabilitation program in Poland Springs, Maine that is designed to force its own wards to actively promote its own continuation and at the same time work, guard, and punish one another.
It uses a brutally intense work structure as well as food and sleep deprivation to keep its residents in a constant state of exhaustion, fear, and humiliation of which the latter has actually been documented by Elan as a "therapeutic tool".
The program only exist due to a complete monopoly held on the child's communication to the outside world and the complete inability of the Maine Department of Education to make visits to any institution, categorized as a school, without a 24-hour notice to said institution.
It uses a brutally intense work structure as well as food and sleep deprivation to keep its residents in a constant state of exhaustion, fear, and humiliation of which the latter has actually been documented by Elan as a "therapeutic tool".
The program only exist due to a complete monopoly held on the child's communication to the outside world and the complete inability of the Maine Department of Education to make visits to any institution, categorized as a school, without a 24-hour notice to said institution.
Damn, I remember when I was in Elan School-Poland Springs, Me. I was forced to scream and degrade other children for 18 hours a day until it seemed so normal that I was convincing the newer residents to do it. I would even turn them in if they said anything that hinted at the fact that they wouldn't or that it didn't make sense. What the hell was I thinking?
by ELAN GRADUATE January 24, 2011
Jul 15 Word of the Day
The safeguarding of Earth and other worlds from biological cross-contamination (i.e. billionaires with too much time on their hands).
Also known as “planetary protection.” Planetary protection / quarantine “reflects both the unknown nature of the space environment and the desire of the scientific community to preserve the pristine nature of celestial bodies until they can be studied in detail.”
There are two types of interplanetary contamination. Forward contamination is the transfer of viable organisms from Earth to another celestial body. Back contamination is the transfer of extraterrestrial organisms, if such exist, back to the Earth's biosphere.
Also known as “planetary protection.” Planetary protection / quarantine “reflects both the unknown nature of the space environment and the desire of the scientific community to preserve the pristine nature of celestial bodies until they can be studied in detail.”
There are two types of interplanetary contamination. Forward contamination is the transfer of viable organisms from Earth to another celestial body. Back contamination is the transfer of extraterrestrial organisms, if such exist, back to the Earth's biosphere.
Billionaires are having a dick swinging space race while the earth experiences record breaking heatwaves that cause sea creatures to literally cook inside their shells. We need planetary quarantine.
by monkeylabor July 14, 2021
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Elan School: LIES!
Elan's purpose is not to change an ill-behaved child into a well-behaved child, but rather to return home a responsible young adult.
Elan's purpose is not to change an ill-behaved child into a well-behaved child, but rather to return home a responsible young adult.
I remember as a new student (Elan School-Poland Springs, Me.), I was crying when I was told to scrub a garbage can as a punishment for something so minor that I can’t even remember the cause. I has stopped cleaning it, and that was when the staff determined that I has to be restrained and dragged to “the corner”, isolation in a room to the point when one barely feels human. I tried to fight back, as any normal person would do when one is touched and forcefully grabbed without consent. Instead of just bringing me to the corner, the staff had other students hold me up, my hands and feet restrained, as other students were forced to scream and degrade me.
by TruthSeeker76 January 12, 2011