Why is it that 76% of the threads these days end up in a debate about AA?
YMAO (yawning my ass off)
I agree. I joined the fray on this issue a while ago, but Im out of steam.
Methinks that the reason it's become so hot-button recently is because of the fifth estate article, in addition to the fact that a lot of these programs that did not initially institute stepcraft are now doing so. (Including the old CEDU schools, such as NWA and BCA.)
I attended in the 80s, back when the cow creek campus housed RMA, and had no stepcraft whatsoever. Still, my mom says to this day that she feels the place wasn't appropriate for me since it seemed to her from the outside that the place was geared more towards kids who had serious drug problems. She's right. It did focus on drug use, but a lot of the kids in there, as most people on this site know, since its consistent with a lot of programs, housed many kids who had only experimented with drugs or who hadn't done drugs at all. I had only been a drinker, but I sure picked up some drug habits after I got out, lemme tell u.
Compare this with my previous time at the children's home, where I hung out with kids who did drugs (mostly pot), and I never had a desire to, even though sometimes I'd even chip in on a dime bag, despite the fact that I wouldn't partake. (They'd always hit me back later by springing for lunch or something.)