At Unregulated Christian Boarding Schools, Students Face Conversion Therapy, Abuse, And Indoctrination
What happens when the government fails to regulate Christian reform schools? One academy in Georgia is just the beginning.
This is the second in a two-part series examining the therapeutic Christian boarding school Shepherd’s Hill Academy and its founder Trace Embry. You can read the first part here.
Shepherd’s Hill Academy is a Georgia-based Christian boarding school with a history of alleged abuse, conversion therapy for LGBTQ teens, and religious indoctrination. If it were just one school, it could be viewed as an alarming anomaly.
But this is not the story of just one school.
When it comes to the state of education in this country, politicians and community leaders regularly debate the merits of charter and public school reform, standardized testing, federalized curriculums, and universal pre-K at the local, state, and federal levels. What is often missing from these conversations are reform schools, wilderness boot camps, and “therapeutic”…
