It didnt even make them afraid to being criminals, it just made them afraid of going to prison.

I mean the idea made for great entertainment, but from a practical standpoint, putting your unruly kid on a tv show to punk them in front of the world, isnt a good idea for their mental lol

my brother went to a camp for bad kids and the fker came back worst xD and even more scary was the fact that he was big and buff lmaoooo

Only real OGs will remember her reaction to those hour long scared straight video 😭

I remember a 5 year old boy going to the intervention program for stealing money for sweet from his mother and being thrown in a cell full of men 10x bigger than him and when he got out, he was suspended by the school for bad behaviour. This shows how ineffective these programs are. These programs made children afraid to go to prison and for that, they would find ways to commit crime and break the rules and not get caught at the same time

I feel like the program would’ve actually helped the kids if they just sat down with the inmates, and the inmates share their real life stories and hardships and actually give the kids a reason not to wanna be in that life anymore..but screaming at them and spitting in they face is just not gonna work it’s just gonna have them more angry and wanna fuck some shit up after the program..because me I would be pissed if I had a bunch of people screaming in my face for hoursss 😭

Ngl if a kid is super fuckin bad there’s something in the environment that’s probably makin that happen. A damn prison themed haunted house being used to fix it is ridiculous

I worked for a juvenile treatment facility and i did a paper on the effect of these programs on recidivism. The problem i found was that you can teach these kids the skills they need but once they return to their environment and don't have a support system, they go back to how they were. Alot of the kids in the program I worked in had absent parents, abusive parents or caregivers, neglectful as well as some belonging to gangs. They don't have wrap around services when they return home. There were a few that came back more than once. From what I know, one of the girls I worked with became a meth addict. Several of them are doing well and a few have kids. I've run into a few. One of the girls works in a group home and is now a supervisor. I'm not sure where alot of the boys are but I know at least one of them was killed by gang violence. Nothing is 100% But the home I'd EXACTLY where these issues start. If the families aren't willing to change then they can't expect their kids to change.

Once they started constantly making seasons, at that point it was all about content and money to them, and the fact that they knew it most likely wouldn’t work just makes them greedy

no because i used to watch this show for entertainment and bc it was funny to be but i remember always thinking that this show was the most impractical thing I've ever seen even at a young age 😭😭😭 they basically embarrassing these kids for millions of people too see 💀💀 shi i would want my lick back too

The moment that got me was when the one inmate was like “Not me gworl” 😭🤣💀

The show also failed to realize that most of these kids know someone who has been in jail or prison so they think they will be okay.

Therapy DOES work. But not every therapist is a GOOD therapist. Therapy is something that you have to be consistent with and some people, including kids, struggle with talking about their trauma. Hell I've been in therapy for 8 years and there's still things I haven't scratched the surface of. But I've learned how to deal with my anger and be a better mother and person. But when the parents are the ones causing the trauma and the child is still in that environment it can't work.

Usually it’s their environment making them act like that so sending them there to scare and then bringing back home to the same environment won’t change shit

Dee still quick with the skipping of ads 😂😂😂😂😂

It's really hard and sad that some of these kids on this program didn't change their ways and some of them ended up in jail and some of them died

I was bout to say, yeah they act tough but they’re like 12, but then you said they’re kids.

The issue with it, in particular for the lower middle class black kids just speaking from experience and just from real world knowledge, alot of those kids needed therapy, and somebody to actually give them mfs a hug and actually be patient in understanding them not just trying for a couple hours then giving up and telling them theyre gonna be failure, they didnt need be threatened with jail which majority of them have probably already be threatened with their entire life just off the fact that they are black

I went to therapy when I was a kind and we only played with stuff I liked. It really helped me and I didn’t realize I was going to therapy for me it was just playing. Even if kids can’t understand it. It still helps them ❤

Baltimore is such a sick place.

This wasn’t done for the benefit of the kids on the show. They were already lost. Forgone conclusion. It’s to the benefit of the kids watching at home.

Im from Jersey and my grandma made all my older siblings go through the program I was almost going to go but it just doesn't work especially growing up in Elizabeth NJ. We had to fit to our environment as we gotten older we calmed down but it didn't work just like the dare program.

I wonder if it;s less likely to work on kids with messed up home lives, and more likely to work on those that have a stable situation at home. But then there are a bunch of other variables like if the kid has mental health issues or if the kid was just negatively influenced by someone. It's a lot of moving parts. So, I'm glad it's not my job to find a solution, not even for my own kid ('cause they don't exist).😅

3:07 if y’all ain’t watched this reaction yet y’all missin outttt

Scared Straight Is Like Motivation Speaches. Result May Last For days, weeks, or months, But is soon fades

17:11 and that is why some parents shouldn't be parents, like if y'all can't handle your kids, why have them in the first place they didn't ask to be in this world.

Not surprised

my sisters friends dad was one of the officers on this show lol

I love dee and imdontai’s reaction to this

I was wondering what to them as well

Supernanny handles shit like this way better than BSS

nahhh is it just me or the old school scared straight scene remind me of boondocks

Fear tactics work better if it's paired with actual steps on how to get out of the situation. The fact that BST had an increase in chances of them going to jail tells me they didn't do that part. Fear alone is not as effective. And these kids prolly needed thearpy more than anything. Weird these parents would rather pay to put them through trauma than to get them that help. And the fact that they crying in most episodes says a lot about underlying issues they dealin with...

It didn’t do what it advertised so it it doesn’t deserve funding.

i can see sunnyv2 doing a vid on this

I watched your reaction to that

They beed to sending them to Beyond Scared Straight and send their child to therapy. If thet are willing to pay for anything.

I remeber my first episode seen one girl instantly thought damn I can fix her 😂 shawty prolly in jail now n shi

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That guy talking on the video is boring,i nearly fell asleep.