Military Boot camps a ‘failure’ but they were never supposed to work

Implementation of boot camp rushed, report concludes

The final evaluation for the government’s military-style boot camps found it was too small to provide any meaningful data, and its implementation was rushed.

The 82-page independent report says the pilot contributed to “meaningful and positive change” for the young people involved, while acknowledging the cohort was too small to draw firm conclusions. It also highlighted a range of barriers and challenges to achieving outcomes.

Those barriers included rushed implementation, challenging transitions, a lack of continuity around therapeutic support, a lack of capacity in the residential phase, and support for whānau began too late before the rangatahi returned home.

It also noted the efforts to include te ao Māori and te reo Māori were valued but “didn’t go far enough” given” all the MSA pilot participants were rangatahi Māori and several were fluent te reo Māori speakers.”

It wouldn’t publish the overall reoffending rate, but said the majority of the MSA cohort reoffended within two months of release into the community.

Silly sleepy Hobbits!

The Military Boot Camps were never supposed to ‘succeed’.

The reason National/ACT and NZF insist on calling them Military Boot Camps is because National, ACT and NZF voters hate young people and they want those who cause crime to be punished and made to suffer.

They vote to ensure young people they hate are given the bash.

THAT is the win for National, ACT and NZF

Nothing excites their reactionary voter base more than the thought of kids they are fearful of being punished in a Military Boot Camp.

Oranga Tamariki don’t like the term because after the Royal Inquiry into Historic Abuse, the previous Military Boot Camps were full of kids who were being abused and they don’t want to be tainted with their resurrection (and they don’t want to the held legally culpable).

So you see, ‘succeeding’ or ‘failing’ isn’t the point of the Military Boot Camps, they make right wing redneck voters slather with glee and for National/ACT and NZF that is the win.

Welcome to Old Zealand, this is what we is now, this is who we are.

Burn those crosses with pride.

 

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