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THE GREAT DIVIDE
Inside the unlicensed counseling that led Boston students to allege emotional abuse
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a Boston high school sophomore, Keondre McClay said he was pressured by
the head of a district-sponsored youth advocacy program to attend an
overnight retreat in Newton, where white adults asked the Black teenager
to wrestle out his emotions on a gym mat with them. They said it would
help him purge his trauma from experiencing racism.
The retreat was part of an unorthodox brand of group therapy that
program leader Jenny Sazama introduced to the Boston Student Advisory
Council, a prestigious student government group that advises the
superintendent and School Committee on education policy.
In a report released by the school department Monday, an independent
investigator wrote that students described the “Re-Evaluation
Counseling” sessions as “weird, uncomfortable, and cult-like.” But the
report barely scratched the surface of students’ experiences.
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