On 2005-12-11 10:11:00, Nihilanthic wrote:
"I agree and that was my point a "Large group" doesn?t mean anything, its none comparative. I personally know a few people who went to and sent kids to RTC and they did fine. Does that mean all RTCs are good , not at all. But as I read some posts on this forum, if a person gets abused or dies or has a bad experience then all RTCs are no good and my response has been we cant make that conclusion based on a few occurrences. We need to compare it to other facilities, public schools, private schools etc. in order to make those assumptions. Absolutes have no place in forming conclusions, like all kids are bad, all parents are bad, all schools are bad etc. but there seems to be more of this thinking than not.
Time solving the individual problems would be better spent.
The problem is how hard it is to get the facts out of these places. Theyre too secretive and too insular. Theres no way to enforce anything and no way to see whats up as of yet, as everyone is told the children will lie and make up bad things to get out, and communication is cut off in the first place!
Youd need to put in people posing as kids, or hide wires, or bug the facilities to see whats going on IN them.
The only thing that would be feasable without the fucking CIA getting involved (as far as I know) would be finding a brave kid and putting him or her in, or seeing if edcons would put a good kid in the program (that is KNOWN to not have any issues) but not actually doing so, or simply talking to those who have been through the programs.
My point with how many people are saying bad things happened, and how over the years and spread out through all that distance in all those different programs, they're ALL saying the same thing. They're NOT lying if what they have to say all matches up!!! Thats very compelling evidence for suspicion.
The facilities are too closed up, isolated, and insular. Theres no way to find out whats going on IN them. The only way you can find out without breaking "THE RULES" is to talk to those who have been there, or resort to bugging, espionage, etc.
Surely you dont suggest I start up a program spy ring ::eek3::