Carey - How did you come in contact with Sue Scheff and/or PURE?
I found an article in the news about WWASP that had Tom Burton's name in it. My attorney contacted Burton and was given Sue's name, number and email address by him. I contacted her. She would not talk to me at first. She had others on her list talk to me, I guess to kinda feel me out, see if I was for real.
Did you pull your boys from Dundee Ranch in Costa Rica because of what they told you about it, making it sound a lot worse than it was?
I was not at all comfortable with the fact that first, it was a program out of the country and second, Dundee was very uncooperative with giving me the information I was seeking about the program and its staff. Sue, and others, did make it worse than it was by bloating the truth. You see, I was frightened anyway, and I think they played upon those fears, feeding me with horror stories.
I've been reading both here and on the voy site, and get that they didn't beat kids.
I was not there, so all I have to go on is what my boys tell me. They say they never witnessed any beatings, however they did see kids being restrained.
Dundee was/is a Behavior Modification program and is meant for the more serious "behaviorally challenged" teens. From what I've read of your boys, another wwasp program would have been more well suited. I get that they are not all the same.
I don't know about that. I could not and would not agree to the communication, or lack there of, that the WWASP programs insist upon between parent and child. Also, I don't want to be cut off from my children, I want to be invovled in and informed of the day to day care and treatment of my children.
I also realize that your ex made this decision for Dundee.
That is correct. We had joint custody. When he signed that contract between him and Dundee, he was basically signing over his parental rights to the staff at the program. The problem is, he did not have a right to sign over mine.