Military Boarding Schools vs. Christian Boarding Schools

ALA StudentsMilitary Boarding Schools for troubled teens are academic institutions that train troubled teens through military arts and sciences. Christian boarding schools are academic institutions that lead troubled teens to be more like Jesus. Both consider themselves to be leadership schools, rising up leaders of the future. Both are structured and there is a focus on personal accountability and self-discipline. However, there are many major differences.

Many families with troubled teens look for Military boarding schools as a viable option for their out-of-control troubled teen. Military Boarding Schools offer a highly structured disciplined environment to help troubled teens become upright, mature, and trustworthy teenagers. Military boarding schools for troubled teens are usually privately owned, and some even offer Christian discipleship. The strict environment offered by the military boarding school tends to assist some students in making the necessary internal changes toward maturation.

Abundant Life Academy, Christian Boarding schools for troubled teens

Most Christian boarding schools offer strict environments, but more importantly they create an atmosphere of love and support, and genuine concern for others. Christian boarding schools are much more supportive, caring, patient, and kind in their delivery. Essentially, their goal is to use love and support to bring about emotional and spiritual growth, as well as leadership training, as a way to encourage their students to faithfully serve others. Christian boarding schools work hard on developing strong leaders, not out of compulsion, but through supportive concern.

When comparing Christian boarding schools to Military schools there are very few similarities. Both school programs are academically based, but that is the end of the similarities. Military boarding schools follow a military science format, are authoritarian, and create a strong sense of group honor. As a matter of fact many Military boarding schools mimic the discipline and structural environments of the US Military academies such as; West Point, Air Force Academy, etc. Military boarding schools operate under strict policy and procedure, with rigid adherence to authority (hierarchy) and leadership. Essentially, Military boarding schools are in the business of producing leaders, with the goal to rise up future military leaders.

Abundant Life Academy, Alternative to the Military Boarding School

 

On the other hand, Christian boarding schools for troubled teens are much more passive and patient, less authoritarian, more suited for individual achievement without losing the focus on the community of students as a whole. Obviously, Christian boarding schools focus on training their students in the Bible, and teaching Biblical principles, such as “love your neighbor as yourself”. Military schools focus on military science and train their students up to be successful in battle, which would be to defend yourself against your neighbor who may attack you.

 
 



Abundant Life Academy is among Christian boarding schools with residential therapy and behavioral therapy for troubled teen girls and boys with teen counseling for girls and boys to improve behavior of teenagers struggling with anger, oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), attention deficit, attention deficit disorder (ADD), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), substance abuse, depression, reactive attachment disorder (RAD), intermittent explosive disorder (IED), obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), eating disorders, self-harm, or rebellion.

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Abundant Life Academy provides troubled teens with teen counseling for girls and boys and adolescent therapy. Our Christian boarding schools serve girls an boys from in Texas, in Utah, in California, in Oregon and in Washington State in the West Coast and in Arizona, in New Mexico, in Oklahoma and in Nevada in the Southwest. In the southern and central states we serve teens in Arkansas, in Kentucky, in Tennessee, in Missouri, in Louisiana, and in Mississippi, in Michigan, in Ohio, in Indiana and in Illinois and in the northern states in Montana, in North Dakota, in Minnesota, and in Idaho in the north, and along the east coast from in Georgia to in Florida, in Virginia, in New York, in North Carolina, in Pennsylvania, and in New Jersey.