Edited sentence: Also, most of the people who go to Job Corps are court mandated, and therefore have previously commited some sort of crime, or have very deep issues that make them easily frustrated, thus putting people in the center at risk.Despite the fact that Job Corps is an educational program with a lot of promise, it has quite a few issues that must be pointed out.Go to job corp, keep your mouth shut, stay off the radar, trouble finds trouble.Guthrie, Oklahoma grateful graduate.I graduated job corp Health Unit Coordinator/Business Office Technologies, got my GED there and now I make 37,000.00 dollars a year working in a Hospital using the skills I learned in job corp.I may never make a million dollars off of it, but I can pay my bills, and they kept me off the streets and out of jail.If you fail the program they won't give you anything to show you even tried and there is no such thing as a safe living environment when you are in a room with three other people, and in the same dorm with more people who probably will try to jump you at one point or another.If you get terminated from the program, you will be sent to a bus station a couple miles away from your home and they won't pay for transportation back to your home after that.If you want your kid to have these people be their representation of what their life will be like when they leave there, then sure, send them.Make a few friends that are also trying to better themselve and you will get what you put in to job corp out of it.Most of Job Corps is run by people who will force people to leave simply because they don't like them.Most of the Information fed to you by the Job Corps recruiters are completely incorrect, as they get a bonus for each student they send to Job Corps.Otherwise, this is not a responsible decision.The best advise I can give to someone who really wants to make a change in their lives for the better.They advertise an independant living environment, then when you get there, you are stuck in a room with 3 other people, and you are forced into situations where you will not be able to continue the program.This is not a reliable choice.While I agree that some very dark deeds do happen at job corp, some very positive things can come of it as well