Research Paper on:
Boarding Schools and Emotional Growth

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growth schools. For the most part these schools tend to base their philosophy on what is known as the CADU schools, a type of school created in the 1960s. Now,  while many people feel these schools build character and self confidence through a unique approach to education, others argue that these schools actually succeed in harming children a great deal  and often a negative sense of self which haunts the child for years. In the following paper we examine the CADU school approach as well as other boarding schools which  follow traditional guidelines. The information provided serves to support the argument provided, that being such emotional growth boarding schools are predominantly harmful, with only a few children benefiting from them.  The paper illustrates that what is promoted in selling the schools is not what is truly provided in the schools. Boarding Schools In first discussing the emotional growth  schools we begin with an examination of the founding of the concept which started with CADU. It should be noted that perhaps all of the emotional growth schools are based  on the CADU schools, and as such we will focus primarily on those schools. According to Woodbury (1991), who apparently visits the CADU school in Running Springs, California, "The  heart of their emotional growth program is the propheet. These were evolved out of all night Rap sessions by Founder Mel Wasserman in the late sixties which used the book  The Prophet by Kahul Gibran as an inspiration" (visit02.html). As would be imagined, those who decided to implement this type of education approach found that certain questions needed to be  addressed and answered "before there could be meaningful work on other areas" (Woodbury, 1991; visit02.html). This focus on answering needs turned into what is known as the nine Propheets, "taken