My Man Dace

[Anonymous]

Typed directly from the CBS Parent Handbook & notice all of the schools this gentleman was affiliated with have closed except Casa?;

Dear Parents:

This letter is to introduce myself and to give you an indication of what to expect over the next few months.  My name is Dace Goulding.  I have had the opportunity to work with youth at many different levels and in a variety of situations.  My first formal experience with adolescents was as a youth supervisor during my enrollment as an under graduate.  I loved the interaction with the students and decided to obtain the needed education to become a recreational therapist.  I worked at Brightway Adolescent Hospital in that career for two years.  After receiving my secondary education certificate, I started teaching.  The academic director position at Paradise Cove opened soon after and I was thrilled to start the academic accreditation process.  Two years seemed to flash by in Samoa and then came the opportunity at Casa by the Sea.  I accepted the position as the director with delight.

The people are warm, loving and very family oriented.  The behavior modification program, culture and the language, perform as a magnificent multi-strand educational composition.  Our staff will expect a high standard, and we are committed creating opportunities for your student to succeed.

As your child enters Casa by the Sea, you should expect several phases.  No two situations are ever the same, but the students will usually undergo some if not all of these stages:

Denial Phase- This is typified by statements like:
        ?I can?t believe you did this to me?
        ?I don?t belong here?
                          ?I?m not learning anything, all they do is babysit me?
                          ?The kids here have problems much worse than mine?
                          ?They have criminals, kooks, and drug addicts here?

Guilt Trip Phase- This is typified by statements like:
                           ?If you really loved me, you would bring me home?
                           ?You don?t know how terrible it is here, or would get me out?
                           ?I?m going to starve, the food is disgusting?
                           ?No one cares about me, the staff do whatever they want to me?
                           ?I?m treated like a prisoner?
                           ?You can?t believe the staff, they will tell you anything in order to keep                        
                             me here?
                           ?The kids here are a totally bad influence on me, you should hear what
                             they talk about?

Anger Phase- This is typified by statements like:
                           ?If you ever want to see me again, you had better get me out of here?
                           ?You?ll wish you had never done this to me?
                           ?I don?t want to be your child anymore?

[spots]

My grandaughter returned home in August after 10 months at Casa by the Sea.  This is what happened to her in the first 2 months.  It is amazing, following the Dace Goulding Ignore-It Plan.

She was sent to Worksheets within the first 10 days, for speaking to a peer as she got dressed in the morning.  I asked last week, "Were you ever in R&R?" [Casa's Torture Chamber, for those of you who are unfamiliar]  She answered, "No."  But Worksheets were/was not a "Time Out With a Writing Assignment".  It was...

"...a room about the size of Grandpa's office [a small bedroom] with 10 cubicles maybe 2 feet square [I have heard 3X5 feet].  We had a white plastic beach chair, and had to sit with feet flat on the floor and hands at our sides.  No eye movement. Tapes played loud self-help stuff and we had to answer multiple choice question quizes.  You could only get out from Worksheets if you got the questions right.  [I advised her that no one could get the questions right, as the goal of the whole thing was to set the kid up for failure, no matter what they did.] She sat in Worksheets, day after day, doing no schoolwork, having absolutely no physical activity, eating "special" food [she had Thanksgiving dinner...mashed potatoes on a styrofoam plate and a pastic spoon, and cried, remembering the large family gatherings we had in the past].  

She did write her obligiatory Monday email, but in 6 weeks, only 2 letters were forwarded.  At Week 3, her "this place is not what you think, Mom" letter made it through.  On that Tuesday, her Family Rep, Paolo Segura, phoned home with advice to ignore the "manipulations", which her mother bought into.  When I called her mother, very concerned that we had only received 2 letters in 6 weeks, her mother said, "So have we.  But Paola is such a nice young lady, studying psychology (sic), and really interested in helping Val (double sic). Val is having some problems with the rules, but she is doing fine."  

Valerie did get out periodically, but was sent back each and every day...once for "sanitation" (hairs left in her hairbrush)", often for not lining up quickly enough, etc.  When she finally did make it back into Population, she had spent more than 2 solid months in isolation.  Her first letter to us included phrases like, "...I can't believe you won't hate me for being such a Black Hole, sucking the goodness out of everything."  She had obviously made it back into the "group sessions", where other kids could rip into her with abandon.  

She remained in Casa for 10 months, achieving only Level II (no phone calls home nor any other direct communication).  For this isolation, mental torture, and brainwashing, her mother paid about $30,000.  Mother still does not believe her daughter, because it becomes imperative for the mother's own mental stability that she discount the truth.  Ant this is the truth, told fitfully, uncomfortably, and with a sense of wonder that she, Val, was not the perpetrator of treachery to our family, but the victim.

[Antibody?]

BULLSHIT
CASA BY THE SEA IS THE WORST OF THE WORST TEEN GULAGS AND YOU ARE LIER FOR THE SS

[Antigen]

You're talking to Dace, not Spots, right?

The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it.
--  J. Robert Oppenheimer

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[Anonymous]

Worksheet is different for the boys than it is for the girls. Figure they get it easier. The boys sit on benches in structure (3" of bench, feet together, knees together, hands on your knees, looking forward, no noises, no questions, no moving.) while listening to audio tapes from the likes of Tom Sawyer to Chopin. After the 45 minute tape, you can break structure to take a test with a wooden pencil, and answer muiltiple choice questions to prove that you were listening to the tape. if you fail the test, you fail the tape, and don't get any points subtracted. worksheet has it's own point system that is seperate from the casa level point sywstem.
for a catagory two concequence, self corrected, of course, a student will lose 50 level advancement points, and will recieve 15 worksheet points. you can earn between two and three points a tape if you have a good upperlevel and/or a fair father. BUT if either the fathers or the upper levels are assholes, expect to earn about 1 point for each 45 minute tape.
The tapes a casette tapes, dual sided. The worlds 100 litereary masterpieces and 100 famous people. There are only 200 tapes that you could possibly listen to. you hear the same tapes over and over. it is customary that the same tape or a selection between two or three tapes may be played repeatedly for two to three days. shift change generally ensures different tapes being that it brings a different father and a different set of upper levels to work worksheet.
you listen to about two or three tapes between fitness. there is fitness. lots and lots of it. i went to worksheet on my fourth day and did fitness for my first time. i couldn't do more than four pushups, but it didn't matter. i was very fit when i left casa; but i damn well worked for it. fitness generally lasts about fourty five mintutes to an hour. when you are in worksheet you are not allowed to wear shoes for fitness, so when doing thousands of jumping jacks in an routine called "killers" on green carpeted cement "the big green"
kids almost inevitably wear their feet until they blister and pop. very disgutsing and painful. eventually your feet adjust, but it takes a bit. it's nothing compared to the shit they made those kids at high impact go through. they would come back to casa looking like zombies; litterally brain dead... seeminly retarded from the experience. dirt encrusted into their skin so deep that for weeks you can notice if a kid came back from high impact by the look of him.