Lance was my counselor while I was at HLA for a while. He has a very pompous attitude and often responds to criticism from students by trying to make them feel stupid for even voicing the complaint in the first place. At least twice a week, our therapy sessions became (within the first five minutes) sessions of voicing complaints about unfair treatment from the school. Often, I was the person who was the most vocal about things that I disagreed with, and I was sent to Ridge Creek because I was "not progressing therapeutically". Lance told me that I was holding the group back because, after I had been complaining about the policies and poor treatment for a while, the group was beginning to take my side completely. Before I started my campaign to get other kids to wake up and see how ridiculous the school is, they had been convinced (by Lance) that the school was helping them tremendously. Anyway, I can't possibly express my disdain for Lance and his apparently uncontrollable need to manipulate troubled kids in a Fornits post. However, I do need to close this post with a little bit of gloating. Lance, if you are reading this, you were wrong. You told me the day before I left that I was still the "old Ed" and that I had not changed and that I would fail outside of HLA. Well guess what? I am at a respected prep school as a senior, making a 3.7 GPA and staying off drugs and out of trouble, no thanks to you. Maybe you should reconsider your pathetic and corrupt career.
