Thank you to Ursus, Guest, and FemanonFatal. I have, in the past, heard rumors about the "escort" services (thinking it was an invention of a television writer's mind), but the experience Fem has described makes my hair stand on end. Simply horrifying, and thank goodness those two places, at least, no longer exist. In the links you gave, there was no mention of either of the CALO people who used to be somewhere else. I'll go back and see if I can find a link to their previous employment. I truly would like to believe that "that was then and this is now," and that CALO uses different techniques (the dogs, for example) and has gone in a different direction, even with those staff members. Isn't it possible that the staff members left there in order to start a place with a new and different methodology?
Guest, please don't worry about me being a spy for the other side. I'm merely a bystander wanting to learn more (and so far my eyes have really been opened, aand I've just scratched the surface). I hope you'll forgive my naive questions and explain things to me -- think of me as a kindergartner who is just learning to read. I haven't jumped in here with plenty of knowledge about these places and this industry. I kind of fell into it, and I have to learn where the fight is, and whether or not it's possible that this particular school, which is new-ish, might have found a different way by people who knew first hand that the old ways are ineffective.
Somewhere, either here or in one of the links to an unrelated site, I read that rather than using the wrist bend technique, a non-touching talking-till-they're-sick-of-listening approach seems to be more effective. Certainly it would behoove schools to give that a good try. It's still unclear to me that CALO is using the restraining techniques in a way that tortures and injures teens, and until I see evidence to the contrary, I'll continue to wonder.
