Yea, great idea, don't try to work things out with them. Go hide out with friends, I'm sure they won't get tired of you crashing on their floor eventually, I mean, I know I don't value my privacy at all either. I'd love to have some homeless kid crashing out at my place, eating all my food, trying to nail my sister every night. :roll:
But seriously, I think this is a pretty tough topic to tackle, certainly not black and white at all. I mean, if you catch wind that the escorts are coming, or manage to escape, what courses of action do you honestly have at your disposal? I'll support what you say about being lied to. My friend had the escorts come for him, but they made the mistake of letting him change in his bathroom unsupervised...he jumped right out the window and bolted, crashed with a friend for a couple days, "negotiated" over the phone, went home, and ended up right in CEDU's hands.
So I guess you can't negotiate, that apparently never works. But then what do you do? Can't go back to your normal high school, they'll be waiting for you there. Guess you could go get a head start on your life of waiting tables or pumping gas, but of course you'll have to get paid under the table because if you land a real job, they'll find you and send you away. Or you could get busy slanging drugs...oh man, what a glorious life that is. You might actually be successful at that for awhile, until you start thinking a little too big and end up doing a little state time.
Honestly, I'll challenge anyone to give me a good course of action to take if you know the escorts are coming/managed to escape from the escorts. Keeping in mind that we're talking about 14/15 year old kids (and assuming that negotiating with the parents is not an option, hell if you can work it out so you won't get sent away, go for it!!). I hate CEDU and those bullshit programs as much as the next guy, but I also can't imagine a life in this country without a high school diploma if you're a person with ambitions. [ This Message was edited by: dniceo7 on 2006-06-18 23:01 ]