Why Tipton?

Tipton Academy is different from other traditional academies for several reasons. The main difference is that Tipton Academy will take boys that are defiant and reluctant to be there. Another difference is the length of stay and the enrollment period. The majority of boys will be staying for one year. Tipton Academy has students coming throughout the year so there is not one set admission period, but ongoing admissions. This enables parents with a child in need of immediate placement to have somewhere to send them. Traditional military schools will ask a child to leave if they misbehave or if their grades slip. We will rarely ask a child to leave, but if the need arises we may assist the parents in finding another placement for the boy.

Many parents with a defiant child start seeking help with the thought that a boarding school would be a good option for their child. They then find that many boarding schools will not accept a defiant child. The internet, also known as the World Wide Web, has many options under the search term "military schools" and "boot camps." What many parents have found is that the majority of the sites that come up when they type these search terms in their browser are behavior modification schools. Behavior Modification is a very old technique that rewards a child for positive behaviors and penalizes them for negative behaviors. The majority of schools for troubled teens today use behavior modification as their main method of changing youth behaviors. When a child is totally out of control he may be restrained or physically held until he is calm enough to begin thinking rationally again. Our program uses a combination of PPC, Behavior Modification, Cognitive Thinking and Animal Training. Because Tipton is a smaller school we are able to develop a program that will help most young men.