yeah there are some good summer camps for the "not so well behaved". i hate institutions, i went to H.L.A and R.C.I, and i have nothing but bad things to say about them. but after h.l.a i went to Wolfeboro campschool in NH...and it was pretty fun. sucked in some ways - the headmaster had a drug sniffing dog, so it was impossible to get standard street drugs like weed on campus. the classes were tough, you had hours of supervised study hall every day, and alot of responsibilities around campus, but, there was plenty of other fun to go around. kids got in cigs, pills galore, among other deviant fun. and they actually treated us well....so well like 50% of the students come back year after year, and some become counselors when they go to college.
but...still issues with these camps.....the medical treatment sucks sucks sucks. i got sick there, got walking pnemonia, but they diagnosed it as a cold. by the time i got back i had fluid all up in my lungs and had to be hospitalized for 3 weeks. a few other kids got deathly sick too - 3 got whopping cough, and 2 got sallomonella. a few kids had psychotic fits there too...and they had no idea what was going on. some girl was slipped LSD at a theme park, and she got arrested for flippin out and sent to the psych ward. she was only 12, so they didnt belive the lsd story, and her urine came back negative (duh, lsd doesnt show), so they thought she was faking it, and reprimanded her harshly, while she was still tripping. another kid was going through vicodin detox at one point, and it was making him go crazy, hallucinate. they also didnt belive him so the let him suffer with no help, had to go to class everyday like everyone else.
OK. I have a lot to say about this, but holy shit. Lemme digest. Honey, sit back and read what you just wrote. Darlin'. That's not healthy. That's not therapeutic. That's abuse!
Goddamnit!! Is it just me? This is exaclty what I'm talkin about. This poor kid has been so conditioned that he believes this is acceptable on any level!!! Does this not bother anyone in Sheopleville?
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he he i think you got me wrong. you when you wake up, you have the choice of a shower or a dip in the lake. most people opted for the shower because the lake was ice cold in the morning. but...my little tent section made a bet with the counselor that if we all jump in for a week straight, we get a trip to ben&jerrys on the headmaster every day, for a week. the kids did it, and i was the only one who got sick. i guess my body cant take it. they took me to a doctor twice to try to figure out what i have, not just a school nurse. it's just that you cant expect to find a decent doctor out in the middle of nowhere, new hampshire. he got me on antibiotics and all sorts of stuff, but if he had made an x-ray he would have seen that i had pnemonia - as the doctors back home did.
as far as the lsd girl, remember, we were at an amusement park. we got weekly trips to amusement parks, waterparks, etc. they gave us cash and let us roam free, just had to meet at the busses at the end of the day. would an abusive place do that? it in a way turned out in her favor. she got out the next day, was completely O.K and since the staff didnt think she took drugs, or at least intentionally, and she had already had a hard time, she was in no trouble. life went on.
seriously, wolfeboro isnt a bad place. they've been around since the 1900's, and have 600+ students come through every summer.
the ONLY punishments you get at wolfeboro are as follows:
if you kinda fuck up, you get your allowance taken away. so you cant use the vending machines or buy stuff when they take to to the deli, ice cream, trips.
if you really fuck up, you have to stay in from the weekend trips and study or clean up trash. you have assigned tables and waiters, they might make you do waiter duty for an extra week.
if your grades suck, you have to go to supervised study instead of your tentcabin, where you actually have to study.
if your grades really suck they make you stay in and study all weekend.
very few kids get shitty grades - the classes are pretty easy, the teachers are really good and are often college professors who come from big universities across the country. and you have a maximum of like 8 kids in every class, plus the profs help you study all you need, they stick around for most of the day.
