The whistle blowing icon went up just after I was bounced for about the 6th time for an "objectionable" post. Jena is always polite, very formal (probably a canned letter) in rejecting and removing a piece. Any post *will* appear immediately, but it takes hours for Jena to find it, so she added the whistle-blower for "help".
BTW, the icon post was a response to a "family in crisis"...They have an adopted Korean boy (duh, didn't turn out quite like the ads?) who was giving them grief. They shipped him off to wilderness, and further promised that he would be gone at least 27 more months until he "came around". Golly gee, and he objected! They couldn't understand why he was mad, and typically they came whining to the forum for support. My post was asking them to rethink the 2+ years at BM schools, and try to give wilderness a chance and then see what happens. I suggested they not "give up on the kid" at the git-go. Ooohhhh...objectionable, adversarial post.
Surprise, surprise!!!! The kid has been a nightmare, moved several times in placements. Back to wilderness, off to some other facility when he faked an accident in the woods, back to original BM when he seemed under control... Now what would be his rationale for behaving when he knows it will never shorten his sentence? The adoptive parents are now whining to the forum about the upcoming first visit - 4½ months in (they have had to hang up on him through most of their phone calls...he's mad and verbally abusive). Predictably, the response from the long-time posters (mose, millicent, Mrs. D-VA) has been..."you're doing the best you can. Hang in there and enjoy your time away from the madness", etc.
I used to think strugglingteens was a "better" forum because people could spell and not swear as much as some of the kids' forums. Nope. Same bunch of deluded, abyssmal parents, only with a little more money than brains. I take that back. A major thread that keeps reappearing is how the federal law for educating children forces school districts to foot the major bills for an emotionally-disturbed child (ODD, oppositional defiant disorder...sort of like "the growing-up syndrome"). With huge satisfaction, these parents boast about the squirming school districts shelling out $30K to $60K a year for their own out-of-control angels. How do you suppose they justify the districts schoolrooms without enough textbooks for all the other students? AND THESE PARENTS HAVE NO SHAME ABOUT IT; THEY GLOAT AND GIVE LEGAL ADVICE!
Melissa, this is what WWASPS parents are flooding the Internet with. Pay the money; vacation; get a fixed kid back. And isn't that exactly what WWASPS tells the kids in their jails? "Your parents hate you and are on vacation without you." That is what the testimonials are all about, trying to justify what they have done. [disclaimer: lots of parents don't know what WWASPS is doing in-house...thus, the fraud suits.] And the PURE bashing has proven to be an very effective diversion, dividing the swelling wave of public disgust.
We all have found it impossible to sway cultists with their feet dug in. The next viable alternative is to force the societal rules that govern child abuse in the home to be applied to the unlicensed BM facilities. If it's illegal in suburbia, it should be illegal in remote secretive gulags. That is our best hope.
