And the Hello and welcome back to the corporate casket, a bi-weekly series where bad businesses go to die.

We will discuss any and everything from bad charities, terrible CEOs, and businesses that have a lot to hide.

I'm the Illuminati and today we're going to be talking about the Ilan School

once located in Poland, Maine.

Even though the Ilan School has since been closed, I think it's important to recognize that this school existed in the first place and learn from its past mistakes in order to avoid them in the future.

Also, a trigger warning here here child abuse will absolutely be talked

about in this episode so if you cannot handle that I completely understand and

hopefully I will see you in the next one but without further ado, let's jump right in and start with how the school was founded. According to a New York Times article, inspired by his own battle with heroin addiction, Mr. Ricci founded

Ilan in 1970 with the late Dr. Gerald Davidson, primarily as a drug

rehabilitation center. Elon's treatment philosophy was based on confrontation.

The program used shouting, costumes, and humiliation as tools to make addicts face their problems.

Over time, Elon came to accept students with a wide range of behavioral and

psychological problems.

Disorders say the facility was ill-equipped to handle.

Unfortunately, even schools with the best of intentions can have negative effects on

kids if they aren't prepared or equipped to handle those students.

But this article continues stating that Ilan School did one thing well.

It made money.

And the school cost $40,000 a year as of 2002 to attend.

So the argument that there was any negligence

was simply due to being underfunded and understaffed

won't really last long here because there's no way you're paying $40,000 a year and still

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