Now the boy has finished his Kamp Krusty 3 day "Leadership Training Course". And it was pretty much what you'd expect, standard cult-indoctrination techniques, being shouted at, broken down, every free moment of every day filled with challenging "assignments" and "leadership" exercises, short sleeping patterns (5 hours a night), metrics that change from the beginning of the camp to the end, which culminates in the children accomplishing such great feats as breaking boards and such, (the boards weakened first in an oven), emotional and tear-jerking moments where they read their "love letters" from their parents...
If I was any other parent I'd be damned concerned, most of the exercises meaningless brainwashing techniques, unrelated in any meaningful way to the task at hand, the only reason in this instance I'd overlook it is that the boy is astute enough to see through most of it, describing it as being of "limited value" - which is probably fair. All life experience is of value. But he states that a lot of the other pupils rated it highly, thought it was a "life changing" experience, which worries me. And the other parents are the ones that are so indoctrinated and uninvolved they won't question it...
And so the madness continues.