The primary purpose of this requirement is to create the illusion that the school's authority over the child is absolute. Parents are not allowed to drop in at the school for an unannounced visit. Children do not have free access to a telephone. Periodic telephone conversations between parent and child are rigidly scheduled and are monitored by school staff. Mail to and from the child is screened.
Personal music is forbidden.
Reading matter that is not part of the school's program is forbidden. The school may employ people who have direct responsibility for children but have no formal training or qualifications. It is not unusual for certain students who have adapted well to remain as staff and eventually to join the network of 'professionals' who circulate to other, similar insitutions. The school induces dangerous levels of stress and disorientation by such means as forced marches, forced calisthenics, forced hiking combined with sleep deprivation and dangerously restricted diets. The school encourages students to follow caretakers' cues in scapegoating selected targets, i.e., approved bullying.