We were never privy to the strip searches until our return with our children from the second workshop break... there was a "slip" of the tongue, in front of me. I was in shock. It is not, repeat not , in the Parent Handbook....I never gave my permission for my minor child to be strip searched... I was never informed by HLA of the strip search policy prior or during enrollment....After that workshop,plans began to pull
our child, which we did....not only for the strip searching, but we felt during that workshop that all was not what was presented to be..along with many other parents in our group...
The parent workshops are a joke. Isn't it something that HLA tells DHR/ORS they're an academic boarding school so they can avoid being licensed by the state, but then sells HLA to parents as being therapeutic and how parent workshops are such a vital part of the "therapy". (BTW - How many "academic" boarding schools have parent workshops for the different therapeutic levels?)
It's only when the parents start talking amongst themselves do you find out things and how unhappy many of the parents are with HLA.
HLA will swear up and down they told you about strip searches and that parents support it for safety. If a parent wants to consent to strip searches, then the parent should have the right to do so. BUT a parent should be told the truth up front and to be allowed to make a choice.
