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Re: sarasota community school- looking for info
« Reply #30 on: May 05, 2007, 03:38:06 PM »
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Does anyone know anything about this school? Run by Chuck and Cara Kanner. The website looks like a ClubMed ad but Google Earth doesn't support the pix.

We're considering therapeutic schools for my 16 yr. old. Before you all lambast me for my insane failings as a father...save it. I've spent countless days on this site and many others....I hear you. In fact I tend to agree. We are carefully and lovingly looking at all options that will help him out of the bad place he's in.

Any and all insight is much appreciated.


Chuck Kanner 'graduated' from the closed down, law suit ridden DeSisto program.

My daughter went to that school. If you haven't already done it... DON'T DO IT! I seriously hope you didn't send your son there. If you already did, my advice would be to get him out QUICK.
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« Reply #31 on: May 05, 2007, 07:09:57 PM »
I haven't finished reading this thread. I don't know yet who bumped it or why and Bert's probably long gone by now, and Godspeed and all the best to ya, too! But I want to answer this while it's fresh on my slippery dark little mind.

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What I'm learning is that this problem is like catching a cloud...illusive and entirely inconclusive. One guy says."severe depression...take this.." the next guy says.." no..it's bipolar...take these..." the third guy ( hugely qualified from Duke Childrens Hospital) says..."it doesn't appear to be bipolar....looks like severe depression..."

Meanwhile my son is going through hell. His solution is to give me back my freedom and let me show you that I can make good decisions, etc...yet if he makes one miss-step he will likely go to jail.

While I respect everybody's right to an opinion, if your answer is to simply tell me that I suck...please don't.....


Yes, that is the major problem here. Nobody posting here knows your son well enough to know wtf to do or how to advise you to help him. Even you haven't got him all figured out or you'd have had this problem solved already. And you are likely the world's leading expert on this particular kid.

I can only take the rough sketch that you've drawn and look for matching patterns in my world and then comment very generically on what I guess you're dealing with. Your son sounds like a lot of kids I know who have grown up within the "conform or be cast out" paradigm. They've already figured out that conformity is bullshit, and it really doesn't take a mental giant or prodigy to figure it out. Just a casual habit of paying attention will do it and you seem the kind to have made sure to teach your kids well in that regard.

But what are the other options? Maybe the best thing you can do is concede that he's damned right to buck the system and then you can talk about smarter, more rewarding ways to do it.
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« Reply #32 on: May 05, 2007, 07:59:53 PM »
Hey SkyBlue, thanks for bumping this, hale and well met! Wasn't Howie In the Hills a DeSisto school? Cause my sister in law went there before the Seed, where she landed up on staff for awhile.

Anyway, I haven't researched the school, but that little quote from Niles about trust and deepest secrets and daily group therapy gave me the willies and a flashback.

I was in limbo land, staying at Fame Haven group home in Sarasota. I had been extradited from Georgia for the crime of running away from Straight in Florida 3 times. (17 was the age of emancipation in Ga then, so they couldn't call me a runaway and just have me arrested) One night, the staff decided to start trying some kind of group sessions. We were all supposed to talk out our differences and issues and such. The one girl took the floor and started talking about what some other resident should do about their life. I listened to her and thought. I was expecting to hear about room-mate issues and chores, this was sort of creeping me out! When it came around to my turn, I said something to the effect that this gal, well intended as she may be, probably wasn't going to be all that invested in the life of the kid she had just been talking about and that it seemed like a shitty idea to me to sit around and discuss our personal issues on que w/ a bunch of other transient, complicated teenagers.

The meeting broke up, I don't think they tried it again.

I can't imagine a scenario where that sort of obvious foolishness could go on w/o anyone making substantial objection unless it's coerced.

Baaaaaad idea, sharing your innermost secrets w/ random strangers you won't even know in a year!
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« Reply #33 on: May 05, 2007, 10:26:47 PM »
I think I may know who this bertc guy is..... and if I'm right.... he did send his son there. Pisses me off to think he won't log back on and read this.
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« Reply #34 on: May 11, 2007, 05:08:57 PM »
Hi there, I live right down the street from the school and it looks nothing like Club Med! It's kind of run down, two stories but not very big at all, it has a new, yet cheaply done paint job and there is an outdoor basketball court, that is it. As far as the program itself, I have no idea. It looks like they hand out outside a lot, freely, so its not one of thse lockdown types which is good.
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stupid typo
« Reply #35 on: May 11, 2007, 05:11:21 PM »
They HANG OUT outside, not hand. Stupid typos... They came over and told me and my son and the neighbor kids that it was private property (they were riding their bikes over dirt hills) but that's about the only communication I've had with anyone there.
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« Reply #36 on: May 11, 2007, 06:26:09 PM »
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Hi there, I live right down the street from the school and it looks nothing like Club Med! It's kind of run down, two stories but not very big at all, it has a new, yet cheaply done paint job and there is an outdoor basketball court, that is it. As far as the program itself, I have no idea. It looks like they hand out outside a lot, freely, so its not one of thse lockdown types which is good.


Nothing cheap 'bout luminous orange  :wink:

"Run down"... I wouldn't disagree. It looks pretty much the same inside too.

... however, imo, the looks are the least of it's problems  :exclaim:
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« Reply #37 on: May 11, 2007, 10:58:37 PM »
Spending time outside in a fenced in area doesn't mean much either way for the program.
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Curious about the Sarasota Community School
« Reply #38 on: May 12, 2007, 02:51:33 PM »
So what is the inside scoop on Sarasota Community School anyway?  I see this place every day, it's within walking distance from my house, but don't know a thing about it except the exterior appearance and the fact that they don't want my son riding his bike over their dirt hills. I love my location -  right next to an alternative troubled teen school, Sarasota High, and 2 blocks from the County Jail. Location, location, location...
My son and I actually still go there, walk through their field and explore the creek next to it every once in a while (I don't follow directions very well especially the Private Property ones). And yeah that paint job has got to go. Methinks that orange paint must have been on clearance or something....
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Re: sarasota community school- looking for info
« Reply #39 on: July 14, 2007, 07:25:40 PM »
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Does anyone know anything about this school? Run by Chuck and Cara Kanner. The website looks like a ClubMed ad but Google Earth doesn't support the pix.

We're considering therapeutic schools for my 16 yr. old. Before you all lambast me for my insane failings as a father...save it. I've spent countless days on this site and many others....I hear you. In fact I tend to agree. We are carefully and lovingly looking at all options that will help him out of the bad place he's in.

Any and all insight is much appreciated.

Chuck Kanner 'graduated' from the closed down, law suit ridden DeSisto program.

My daughter went to that school. If you haven't already done it... DON'T DO IT! I seriously hope you didn't send your son there. If you already did, my advice would be to get him out QUICK.


My question to you is why did you remove your daughter from this school? What is it about this school that didn't set right with you & yours?
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