Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > Benchmark Young Adult School / Benchmark Transitions
Public letter of Response to Benchmark Tour Offer
psy:
--- Quote from: ""CCM girl 1989"" ---Redlands? I'll have to look that up. Don't know where that is?
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Redlands California. San Bernadino (aka Burn-a-ghetto) area. Just a few miles from Running Springs.
Anonymous:
--- Quote ---What if they were to deny you your identification, money, and posessions if you decided to leave program?
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Call the police, it's theft. Seriously, to compare an adult program with willing participants to teen programs where they have no choice to be there is definitely stretching it.
psy:
--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---
--- Quote ---What if they were to deny you your identification, money, and posessions if you decided to leave program?
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Call the police, it's theft. Seriously, to compare an adult program with willing participants to teen programs where they have no choice to be there is definitely stretching it.
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With whose phone? Uh... Carl. Can I use the phone to call the cops on you? If you wanted to call the cops you had to walk off property, which meant risking being forced to spend the night (or more) on the streets.
They would tell the police your posessions were your parents and you were basically SOL.
One kid actually sucessfully called teh cops after I left, and was able to make it on his own as a result after getting his ID and money back.
Most of us, however, believed the staff's claims that we had signed away our rights when entering program. It was only later I found out this was not possable.
How many students had enough of a legal background to recognize such a claim as BS, and know how to go about doing somethign about it? None while I was there.
Anonymous:
Well what do they expect, a limo to come pick them up? If you can't decide whether a night or two, or a week on the streets is better than the program you are in then maybe it's just better to stay.
What's your solution to the problem as you perceive it? Should adults now be protected from themselves by a third party, maybe the state can appoint nannies to each of us until we turn 30? ( I keed, I keed.. kinda)
psy:
--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---Well what do they expect, a limo to come pick them up? If you can't decide whether a night or two, or a week on the streets is better than the program you are in then maybe it's just better to stay.
What's your solution to the problem as you perceive it? Should adults now be protected from themselves by a third party, maybe the state can appoint nannies to each of us until we turn 30? ( I keed, I keed.. kinda)
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First off, Minors were there in program as well. See their Enrollment Contract for information on this as well as a covenant not to sue, which was not there when i enrolled.
Also. Adults are protected from misrepresentation and fraud (which i am not necessarily alleging here, Rich). What your arguing here is along the lines of "Buyer beware" which would be a valid argument were the advertised claims of Benchmark actually factual and the customer was not being misrepresented.
Well in this case, I allege, the product was misrepresented to the buyer. Although Benchmark has only one staff member who teaches high school part time, Benchmark claimed on it's California Private School Affidavit (excel format) (required to operate a school, but not an accreditaion or approval) that it has 10 full time teachers. According to their website they only have four (and none of them teach full time). They also claim to grant High School diplomas while this is not true. They bus students to Redlands Adult School so they can finish their high school education if necessary.
How many high school graduates have ever graduated Benchmark Young Adult School? 0
Read this california Law snippet on Private School Affidavits:
--- Quote ---"Filing pursuant to this section shall not be interpreted to mean,
and it shall be unlawful for any school to expressly or impliedly
represent by any means whatsoever, that the State of California, the
Superintendent of Public Instruction, the State Board of Education,
the State Department of Education, or any division or bureau of the
department, or any accrediting agency has made any evaluation,
recognition, approval, or endorsement of the school or course unless
this is an actual fact."
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Their NATSAP page is interesting in this respect.
--- Quote from: ""above natsap link"" ---Accreditation, Licensure, Approval: California Private School Affidavit
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Yes i see the technicality here (it's natsap doing the representing). Nevertheless, their only qualification they publicly claim is highly suspect IMO.
Here's another snippet of California's regulations on practice of psychology which I include for no particular reason:
--- Quote ---2903. No person may engage in the practice of psychology, or
represent himself or herself to be a psychologist, without a license
granted under this chapter, except as otherwise provided in this
chapter. The practice of psychology is defined as rendering or
offering to render for a fee to individuals, groups, organizations or
the public any psychological service involving the application of
psychological principles, methods, and procedures of understanding,
predicting, and influencing behavior, such as the principles
pertaining to learning, perception, motivation, emotions, and
interpersonal relationships; and the methods and procedures of
interviewing, counseling, psychotherapy, behavior modification, and
hypnosis; and of constructing, administering, and interpreting tests
of mental abilities, aptitudes, interests, attitudes, personality
characteristics, emotions, and motivations.
The application of these principles and methods includes, but is
not restricted to: diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and
amelioration of psychological problems and emotional and mental
disorders of individuals and groups.
Psychotherapy within the meaning of this chapter means the use of
psychological methods in a professional relationship to assist a
person or persons to acquire greater human effectiveness or to modify
feelings, conditions, attitudes and behavior which are emotionally,
intellectually, or socially ineffectual or maladjustive.
As used in this chapter, "fee" means any charge, monetary or
otherwise, whether paid directly or paid on a prepaid or capitation
basis by a third party, or a charge assessed by a facility, for
services rendered.
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EDIT: Note. Their keywords in teh page source (for search engines) include a multitude of these keywords listed above. At least it used to. But i have the page archived. I think i posted the keywords later on in this thread.
I could go into more detail but this is just one example of what is advertised, compared to what is actually offered.
If you're a program staffer or an ed-con. Please keep asking me questions. I'll be here until my face hits the keyboard (don't you wish).
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