The MHS Board, saddled with conflicts of interest, stacked with persons drawn to this charity by self-enrichment goals, and lacking any members with childcare know-how, has flat-out experimented on MHS children.
The most blatant example was so-called “Springboard Academy,” an 80-child bunker that initially housed children in 20-child bedrooms! This turned the childcare clock back one hundred years and led to shocking incidents, just as the MHS Board had been warned. This experiment violated all childcare standards as well as the wishes of the Hershey's, who wanted children to enjoy family-like homes supervised by houseparent couples.
The “Springboard” experiment was abandoned this year, barely two years after opening, and at a loss of over $40,000,000! This is money that should have been used for needy children and desperately poor families. This is arguably the single biggest waste of childcare resources in history. Yet, no one on the MHS Board is being held accountable for even one penny of it!
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