Kurn Hattin Homes

Hi, I graduated from Kurn Hattin Homes about 5 years ago and the things I experienced there still affect me. I saw a post from about a year ago talking about this place and thought I would vent a little about it. Going to Kurn Hattin was probably one of worst choices my family made. I didn’t have it as rough as some others but my sister did. She was bullied out of that school within months of her being there. She decided to go because I (her older brother) went there and she wanted to see me more often. She left within 3 months because the treatment she got was worse than she had ever experienced. She was pushed into ditches, beaten, stolen from, and the houseparents did nothing for her. Hell the whole school did nothing for her. Nor any of the other victims who went there. I stuck it out solely bc I had friends I couldn’t leave behind. They say they change children for the better but do that by cutting all outside contact and punishing us for getting water without asking. The only contact you had with parents was a 15 minute call on specified days. If you went over that time you cut into other people’s time and then they would get mad at you too. For me at least bed time was when it was the worst. I got unlucky with my roommate and that experience has messed me up for years. At first it was ok but gradually he forced me to stay up with him which turned into insomnia I still deal with today. He would do this by asking me question and if I fell asleep I would get beat until I woke up. I still can’t fall asleep until like 3 in the morning. Later in the year when I started to being unable to sleep I would have to listen to his sick fantasies about things he wanted to do to the younger girls in the school. I didn’t know what to do so I would just tone him out until he thought I fell asleep. Of course that wouldn’t work bc I would get hit. Anyways, after graduating I dealt with depression, suicidal thoughts and insomnia for years. I still do to this day but not nearly as bad. I haven’t been able to go through the life the same. I can’t even imagine how those who were molested, and had prior mental health issues feel now. I hope to god they’re surviving but if I got it easy and came out with the scars I did I can’t imagine what they felt. There is so much more a Reddit post can’t explain so I’ll leave it here.

Tl;dr - Kurn Hattin sucks and it changed me and my family for the worst.