Perhaps in the midst of your distress at being tortured, you had the presence of mind to inquire about the teachers' certification. All that angst must have caused you to miss the twelve teachers who have been here since before you arrived---including myself.
Stop exaggerating; if you genuinely had an awful time at SCL, offer ideas for improvement and keep it honest.
tor-ture (t-rchr) n.
1. Infliction of severe physical pain as a means of punishment or coercion.So long as the hobbit, or any form of isolation exists at SCL, torture will continue. I have been at many psych hospitals, and I have experienced the difference of being placed in isolation in a professional environment, and SCL.
In the hospitals, a kid is placed in isolation only if they are endangering themselves, or others. There are strict regulations, time limits, video cameras, etc.
At SCL, they utilize isolation as punishment. You say the wrong thing to staff, you get sent to isolation for a few days. If you don't cry enough for Gilrease, and "choose out" you spend a few nights in isolation. This is true for a variety of "Cat 5's" and other offenses. Running gets you a stay in isolation. In isolation you recceive a severely lacking diet (only two meals a day, banana and plain bagel for breakfast, tortilla, spoonful of black beans, and handful of lettuce for dinner, toiletry cup for water). No access to clean toilet facilities (portapotty with 50 foot 'walk of shame') for your entire stay. A shower only every three days. The staff are completely isolated and physical violence commonly occurs. It is freezing in winter, you are only allowed one layer, and only a sleeping bag at night. It was freezing, it literally hurt my body as I tried to sleep. Sleeping on a hardwood plank hurts. Kids with mental disorders (girls pulling hair out, boy banging head against wall) spend too much time in isolation, when they should be sent to a professional medical environment. Spending a week straight in a space no bigger than a vanity bathroom hurts your body.
This is, by definition, torture. SCL put us in an extremely uncomfortable physical environment, which abuse commonly occured (I was restrained several times while in the hobbit for no reason, but they find a reason anyways) to ensure our compliance. This is coercion, based on physical and psychological pain. Is this treatment?
Yes, you are right, I had no idea if the teachers were credentialed or not. That was not my point, my meaning was that even if they were qualified, they didn't teach. I don't know if this was your choice or SCL policy, I have no personal animosity towards you. I am not angry, I am sharing my own experience with the only audience who understands. I wish you guys could have actually taught us like normal teachers, and interacted with us. Our class was completely silent all day, my brain went into neutral while there, as I am sure many others do.
From my experience, the entire program is designed to ensure compliance, utilizing whatever means necessary. I no longer think the lack of proper facilities, educational tools, licensed professionals, etc. is a mistake. I think it's all part of the plan, which is for the higher-ups to get rich and richer, without care for those of us entangled in it's mess.
I don't really have any advice for parents seeking alternatives to these programs. All I am hear to say is I was treated like shit at SCL, and came out ten times worse psychologically than when I went in. I still have issues from that place, and I was only there seven months. I can only imagine what is was like for those locked up for years and treated badly.
I have been completely honest, I have nothing to hide. I'll take your word for it I was wrong about the teacher credentials, I hope you are in a place where you can utilize your ability now.
The wretchedness of religion is at once an expression and a protest against real wretchedness. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the feeling of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of unspiritual conditions. It is the opium of the people.
--Karl Marx, German economist and political philosopher
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[ This Message was edited by: Exit Plan on 2006-04-04 19:45 ]