Washout
A washout is a boy who is removed from the Dorley programme for any of a handful of offences or conditions, any of which is taken as proof that the boy is unsuitable for rehabilitation. It is unknown what becomes of boys who are washed out[ch. 4], though Frankie refers to Declan being sent to Elle "for her little project."[ch. 28]
Washout offences include "[a]ttempting to hurt any of the women" of Dorley Hall[ch. 4] and, in the case of Declan, being an "unrepentant and persistent" rapist[ch. 14]. As the programme selects for boys whose sense of gender is flexible or malleable enough to be changed by the programme, boys with a strongly-set sense of gender are considered “practically an instant washout, as "[i]t’d be pointlessly cruel to try and get them to change.”[ch. 19]
Referenced washouts include:
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