Catish75

What are your plans for the future?

You have a great attitude! Enjoying yourself and being with the people you love sounds like the perfect plan! Have fun at the wedding :)

The only way, in my opinion, to combat this is to increase accountability and oversight - regardless of the nature of the school.

I couldn't agree more. It's just sad that we are still struggling with this in 2014. And probably ruining lives...

I understand that you are exposing problems that affect America now and that are slightly different from what I was referring to. What I meant was that abusive behaviour towards children and teenagers was widespread in religious organizations. Which included regular schools as well as programs for troubled kids. I thought it was common knowledge that this has been happening for at least decades now. I would like to also thank you for standing up for these kids, for giving them a voice.

I'm from a mostly catholic country. In the 20th century we had a dictatorship with strong ties to the catholic church. It was very hard to get a decent education back then (and to escape poverty education was the only way out). School and religion were connected teenagers and children suffered emotional and physical abuse regularly. This isn't an exclusive of my country, it happened in Spain, Ireland and so many other places. So my question is: Did you know this happen in other countries? Why did you think it would be different the Escuela Caribe?