The Schools that Break Children - BBC World Service Documentaries

#BBCEye investigates Chinese ​disciplinary schools found to collude with parents to abduct troubled teens, forcing them into military-style training to ‘fix’ them at a devastating cost.

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Every year across China, thousands of troubled teens attend disciplinary schools. These schools are part of a lucrative industry that promise anxious parents that military-style discipline will resolve everything from concerns over disobedience and depression, to gender and sexual identity.

Undercover footage reveals how the schools conspire with concerned parents to abduct unwilling students, often in broad daylight, by posing as the authorities.

Once inside the school, students say they are stripped of their phones and forced into months of strenuous physical activity. Many survivors talked about being beaten while some say they were subjected to sexual violence.

00:00 Inside China’s military-style disciplinary schools
01:35 Why parents choose these schools
03:34 Promises to ‘fix problem children’
04:29 Li Zheng’s growing school network
06:12 How students are tricked into a school
08:56 Military drills and discipline
10:09 Guarantee to ‘fix' their behaviour 
13:31 Enxu’s story goes viral and she escapes
18:43 Volunteers take legal action against Li Zheng
22:28 Evidence of a fake police pickup
25:19 Li Zheng’s former staff launch a new school
29:37 Former students look back

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