boarding school

[Anonymous]

looking for a normal boarding school to suggest as an alternative to a therapeutic one. Must take seventh graders. Genuine replies only please.

[Anonymous]

Genuine replies for a genuine asshole!  :rofl:

[Truth Searcher]

Welcome guest~
 
This is truly a genuine response ...  :wink:

But, isn't "normal" and "boarding school" a bit paradoxical?

I would argue that "normal" and "having your child live in your home" might be a bit more apropos.

Why do you feel the necessity to send your 7th grade child to a boarding school?  Is she/he experiencing academic difficulties?  Social problems?  Looking for a more structured environment?
I feel quite assured that whatever your reasons for looking for alternative school choices ... there is probably better options than a boarding school.

[Anonymous]

Not all boarding schools are bad.

Some kids are very happy to have the chance to attend a good prep school.

I suggest that you find normal schools by Googling on "prep school."

That seems to do a reasonable job of weeding out the Behavior Mod facilities and just getting you the real schools.

Or, at least, it will until they notice they're getting weeded out and add the term to their pages and meta tags.

Still, use caution. Any place, even a Behavior Mod facility, can call itself a prep school. Caveat Emptor.

Julie

[Anonymous]

http://www.rabungap.org/  Dillard, Ga

http://www.ashevilleschool.org/  Asheville, NC

http://www.christschool.org/   Asheville, NC

http://www.tallulahfalls.org/  Clayton, Ga

http://www.cadet.com/  Gainesville, Ga

http://www.schools.cranbrook.edu  Near Detroit, Mi

http://www.chch.org .. near Boston, MA (my dad went to this one 45 yrs ago)

[RobertBruce]

Well look who's back! Susie I don't know if youve been following or not but HLA has recently been forced to apply for licensure as a...you guessed it Theraputic Boarding School. Remember when you swore up and down that they were properly licensed? Remember when you claimed if they werent properly licensed how would they have ever gotten a commendation from the state?


I guess you were wrong about everything Susie.

How does it feel to know you backed the wrong team for all those years?

[Anonymous]

I listed these traditional boarding/prep schools because I know something about them, and havent heard anything negative about them, but I will say that personally, I think kids should go to day schools normally. If, for some reason there is a bad family situation, or parents move every 6 months or something odd like that, then I think maybe boarding schools are a good thing for stability. And some boarding schools offer a great education. My dad loved his prep school in Boston. He attended for 1 year. But, for a normal household, in a normal city, for the average kid, I think they should stay at home and attend day schools.

[RobertBruce]

And we all know your opinions are rock solid! I mean you swore by HLA, claimed it was a great place and everything was on the level.......Oh wait, how did that turn out?

[RobertBruce]

No one should ever listen to this woman's opinion. She openly supports organized child abuse, is an apologist for child abusers, and is as afraid of the truth as Cindy.

[Anonymous]

Robert, I do NOT condone child abuse or child abusers, and you continuing the slander is getting old, and, dare I say, somewhat obsessive. If you don't have proof that someone is a child abuser, you cannot acuse them of it. And I have NEVER abused a child or condoned it. I am not discussing anything about HLA, or talking to you in that post. Please do not drag me into your soap opera of insults again. I am not interested. The boarding schools I posted I am familiar with to some extent, and I have not heard anything negative about them, but IF You will actually read the following post that I did, you will see that I also stated that I think a normal household with average kids should keep those kids at home. Now, please stop distracting this post with your ridiculous insults of me and let the discussin continue with the actual topic at hand.

[Anonymous]

Robert, I do NOT condone child abuse or child abusers, and you continuing the slander is getting old, and, dare I say, somewhat obsessive. If you don't have proof that someone is a child abuser, you cannot acuse them of it. And I have NEVER abused a child or condoned it. I am not discussing anything about HLA, or talking to you in that post. Please do not drag me into your soap opera of insults again. I am not interested. The boarding schools I posted I am familiar with to some extent, and I have not heard anything negative about them, but IF You will actually read the following post that I did, you will see that I also stated that I think a normal household with average kids should keep those kids at home. Now, please stop distracting this post with your ridiculous insults of me and let the discussin continue with the actual topic at hand.

I don't know about anyone else, but I believe RB and not this SH person.  

[hanzomon4]

Robert, I do NOT condone child abuse or child abusers, and you continuing the slander is getting old, and, dare I say, somewhat obsessive. If you don't have proof that someone is a child abuser, you cannot acuse them of it. And I have NEVER abused a child or condoned it. I am not discussing anything about HLA, or talking to you in that post. Please do not drag me into your soap opera of insults again. I am not interested. The boarding schools I posted I am familiar with to some extent, and I have not heard anything negative about them, but IF You will actually read the following post that I did, you will see that I also stated that I think a normal household with average kids should keep those kids at home. Now, please stop distracting this post with your ridiculous insults of me and let the discussin continue with the actual topic at hand.

I don't know about anyone else, but I believe RB and not this SH person.  

Ditto, Program supports will always support the program when only the kids are claiming abuse but once the lawsuits come around they scatter like cockroaches......

I'm not calling anyone a cockroach, not that I have anything against the cockroach............

[RobertBruce]

That would be an accurate way to describe her. She couldnt get enough of it a year ago, trying to manipulate all sorts of things, attacking people from the shadows in what she thought was anonimity, baiting people to committ libel against the school, on and on and on. All the while claiming we were all just a bunch of "disgruntled ex staff and students" who were "angry" and HLA was a great place and she knew, cause as she claimed she "lived there for four and half years and was married to the operations director for 11 years. Mind you she never attended a single class, a reals session, was with us in the dorms, ate with us, saw restrictions, add that to that she lived down the hill away from the school. With all that she paraded herself as this expert on HLA who was somehow Len's closest confidant, and knew every intimate detail about the school, better than those who actually worked there, better than those who were incarcerated there.

Then all of the sudden Bill Gray (her ex) quit and more and more staff started telling us what was really going on .Once that happened Susie suddenly got really really quiet.

She to date is still to cowardly and ashamed to acknowledge that she was wrong and apologize, even after calling us all liars and denying our experiences.