On 2005-12-12 15:10:00, Anonymous wrote:
"Specifically, Robert, what do you consider to be abusive conditions in the dorms? And which dorm did you stay in while there? And what conditions are you claiming that Bill stated were the students fault?"
Dorm A is a prime example. Those who've been to HLA (recently, no, put your hand down, not you Susie!) is horribly dirty and smells like human stool when you walk in. It is so bad that even the teachers and AC's and counselors walk in they know it is horrible. It is home to HLA students ages 13-16 and one of the main problems of the dorm is that 70% of the kids in the dorm don't clean themselves. Don't clean themselves? Yes -- don't take showers daily, not even every 2 days, don't wash their clothes, spit on the floor, etc. Use your imagination, and it probably has happened. Out of the 48 some odd kids in the dorm, me and about 5 other boys actually took more than one shower a day and cleaned ourselves, and we were all just about best friends and couldn't wait to get moved over to Dorm B. One morning, I woke up with 38 bug bites -- literally, because I counted them, and this was back in May -- I still have scars from some of them. As if that wasn't bad enough, my three other room mates had a minimum of 12 bites on each of them. So what did I do? Well, "I did what we're supposed to do." Tell our counselors.
Yeah, that did me a lot of fuckin good. Just about as good as a North Georgian night staff scratchin his dirty ass -- all it does is waste time and erode his ass skin.
My counselors kept "forgetting" about this important event, so I wrote a two-page email to just about any higher staff member the student computer system would let me e-mail, and then I was told by none other than my mom that thanks to my beautiful proposal, there will now be regular Terminix checks. My mom was in shock. "Your in the mountains of North Georgia and you DON'T have regular extermination checks?!?!?" Bill, yes Susie, settle down, I am saying your ex-husband's name, your big buddy Bill...said "from now on we will."
How cheap, ignorant, stupid, and wrong. It's good to know my money went somewhere positive.
Buccellato's downpayments on his new Jaguar.
Anybody who hasn't been there since the late 90's wanna run around and claim they are in great condition? Try me, I dare you. We always told the higher staff how bad of a condition Dorm A was in and the response they gave, with a look just about as dirty as the dorm itself, was "motivate your peers to change their habits". That leaves us clean ones out to dry, when our parents are droppin $6,500 a month and THAT's how we get treated. They didn't do somethin until my room (Room 18) got slammed with a bug-bite outbreak, and all that did was get monthly extermination. In the mountains, I'd think you'd need weekly, not monthly, and that still doesn't cover all the other funks and smells and rotting things in the dormitory.
Any takers?
