I'm amazed something hasn't exploded right in their own ranks. It's really a dictatorship. A school recently closed because of the above action. Like the town that encircles it, Colorado City High School is a blend of the modern and antiquated. Adobe blocks, stacked four decades ago, still support one end of the school's roof.
New computers blink in one classroom.
In another, boys barely old enough to shave learn without the distraction of girls, who typically drop out of school around the age of 15. Now, if townsfolk agree to follow the word of their prophet, the boys, too, will disappear from the Utah border area's public schools, leaving educators and experts in child welfare struggling to understand life inside the largest polygamist group in America. Until recently, Huth was the person tearful husbands and wives those who rarely seek help beyond the redrock desert turned to when their complex and nuanced plural marriages fractured. She did not pander to the polygamists nor did she advocate monogamy. Her goal, as always, was to heal the family, regardless of internal structure.