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Academy at Swift River
PA320H:
We had a terrible experience there. What has been others experience? Did anyone find a school with good academics and a nurturing mutual respecting environment. It seems most of these school are flawed.
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Anonymous:
--- Quote ---On 2006-03-04 11:32:00, PA320H wrote:
"We had a terrible experience there. What has been others experience?
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--- Quote --- Did anyone find a school with good academics and a nurturing mutual respecting environment.
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Not that I've been able to find.
--- Quote ---It seems most of these school are flawed.
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That's because they start out with a flawed premise.
Anonymous:
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Anonymous:
ASR is a good and supportive organization. It's a tough, gut-wrenching program for both the students and their parents. This is especially true for the parents during the quarterly family therapy weekends. The Peer Group members get to know each other better than most members want to be known, and the program effectively raises the participant's maturity and self-respect. This is an intense therapeutic environment, but it is not rigorous from an academic perspective.
I know that our daughter, now almost 20, benefitted from her time there. She graduated almost three years ago. The last three years have been a struggle much of the time. My daughter is very intelligent1, but she still lacks common sense, and she has a problem recognizing that rules (and laws) apply to her as well as everyone else. This being said, she is a far more capable person post-ASR than she was going in, and she is, after all, still only 19.
Overall, it was a big plus. None of the programs that you'll look at are perfect, despite their marketing propaganda, but this place will bust their butts for your child.
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--- Quote ---...the program effectively raises the participant's maturity and self-respect.
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Really? How has this been measured and quantified by research? Can you please cite any clinical research that suggests that this is true, or are we just to take your word for it?
--- Quote ---The last three years have been a struggle much of the time. My daughter is very intelligent1, but she still lacks common sense, and she has a problem recognizing that rules (and laws) apply to her as well as everyone else.
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How does this reconcile with your above statement? I was under the impression that ASR taught "follow the rules" and "the rules apply to you" first and foremost. How is it that a couple of years worth of rigorous "rule enforcement" and great "growth in maturity" have yielded a "graduate" with no understanding of rules or how they apply to her in society?
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