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« Reply #45 on: February 17, 2004, 10:31:00 PM »
Seriously...What say some of you anons pick an identity. There's really no risk involved in doing this! Just call yourself "WWASP-Rep" or "Joe Schmoe" or "Concerned Parent" or something...ANYTHING! Just pick a name, for crying out loud!!! Then we can stop saying "Anon #1, will you please stand up?"  :lol:  

You can give a bogus email address, it doesn't matter, trust me..PLEASE! It would facilitate a MUCH less confusing mode of discourse here if you were to (ahem) comply with this suggestion...
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« Reply #46 on: February 17, 2004, 11:20:00 PM »
fod, the reference to civil rights movement, crapping your pants due to limits, and bruises was me.  no longer anon
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« Reply #47 on: February 17, 2004, 11:22:00 PM »
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« Reply #48 on: February 17, 2004, 11:25:00 PM »
geez i keep trying to edit my posts.  
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« Reply #49 on: February 18, 2004, 06:33:00 PM »
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On 2004-02-17 18:14:00, Anonymous wrote:

With the staff, outside professionals and parents on the campuses every day and night, tell me why they would ALL turn a blind eye?


This statement has been offered a lot lately, perhaps just since you, Anon, started posting.  Since you seem to be The Only One convinced that 1) staff, 2), outside professionals, and 3)parents are around everywhere, all the time, I wish to challenge you.  What has been related to me [and which I believe] is drastically contrary to your "observations".

#1) Staff isn't there all the time.  While it may be against the "rules" of employment, in many instances staffers remove themselves from the room and the only supervisorial persons are Upper Levels, kids not good enough to go home yet (even to their family, who theoretically have been "learning" how to cope through seminar attendance).  These broken children are freshly-minted sadists with random authority to punish to gain status, to feel revenge for their own recent treatment, or just for the fun of it.  In Mexico, there are two distinct levels of official staff who deal with the kids: The "Mamas", who spend 3 days hand-running living and sleeping with their charges before a day off, and "Mamas al pollo", [assistant guards] who only work for 3 days at a time, leaving each night to go home to their own families.  The "full-time" Mamas make substantially more...about twice as much, which I have been told is still only $2.50/hr.  The "going-home" group takes much less pay, but does not have to exist with constant punishment-dealing for American teenagers.  The kids know the difference, and treat the assistants quite poorly, knowing their powers of punishment are less.

#2) Who do you consider to be an "outside professional", one who is constantly running around in attendance at a WWASPS facility?  The nurse at any facility (as reported by kids from Costa Rica, Jamaica, Montana, and more) is usually the bottom-of-the-barrel professionally, and if she can be contacted, makes getting medical treatment very difficult. A doctor is seen *in town* and his charge ends up being billed to the parents as horribly inflated...with a $75 additional transport fee for the 3 miles from Casa into Ensenada. If a doctor arrives on premises, it is just a perfuntory once-over, and in Ensenada, the recurring medical advice from this physician (for problems with diarrhea, headaches, pulled muscles...anything) is "Drink more water".  The psychiatrist, Dr. Mark Chappius (called "...not the brightest star in the Utah psychological sky" by the state licensor in a Salt Lake Tribute interview) spends 2 weeks a month at Tranquility Bay, according to Jay Kay, interviewed in the London Guardian.  That leaves 2 other weeks during any month in which to give in-depth personal psychiatric treatment to 600 kids at Casa by the Sea alone.  Other than attorneys, law enforcement, or regulatory inspectors (zero presence), am I missing a large segment of the professional community who frequents WWASPS facilities?

#3) Parents seem to be conspicuously absent during a normal period.  Ask any kid from any WWASPS facility, and they will tell you they know when parents are coming in for a seminar.  There is a frantic flurry of clean-up which lasts for 2 or more days, culminating with the issuance of clean uniforms.  If a parent comes in person to visit, that parent is ALWAYS accompanied by 2 Upper Level students while on campus.  Parents are seldom or never allowed to visit lower level dorms, and in fact, are paraded only through Upper Level sleeping and eating areas when first shown the facility.  I know two parents, concerned about the caliber of fear and worry in their child's letters, who drove down unannounced to personally visit.  These parents were assured all was well, and while still insisting on the visit (after a 1000-mile trip!), were told that such a visit to a Lower Level child would void their "warranty"...a provision out of the blue, mentioned nowhere in the contract warranty statement. The frantic mother finally agreed to "observe" her son through a one-way glass window to assuage her fears...an act that continues to haunt her to this day.  The parents returned only 2 weeks later to withdraw the terribly depressed boy.  BTW, this mother remembers writing "...let me know if you need your swim suit, because the warm weather is coming up fast", believing the pretty pictures about snorkeling and beach-combing in the marketing brochures.  Her son, meanwhile, was being made to assist in "escorting" reluctant victims to OP, because of his relative size and weight among the facility's residents.

In my experience, WWASPS is an extreme case of a closed facility.  Even the attache from the Tijuana State Department office is escorted only to those portions of the facility which are deemed appropriate, and always in the company of the Director of the Facility.  There is no check available, as there would be if local regulatory inspectors, professionals, and tons of parents openly wandered the grounds, as is often the case in a "real" boarding school.

One more thing...you say:    

"Once they are clean, they need a results based program to stay clean and learn to have other passions besides self-destruction.  "

What the heck is a "results based program", and what other kind would there be?
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« Reply #50 on: February 18, 2004, 08:26:00 PM »
yes, yes, the clean up period.  empty the puke buckets and get the sick kids out of the hallway.
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« Reply #51 on: February 18, 2004, 09:00:00 PM »
The following is another students experience and some documentation of what went on at Dundee P.S. Hannah was one of the students who moved to Carolina Springs from Dundee Academy in Costa Rica. When Dundee closed, our first priority was to get Hannah home. So we got to visit with Hannah for two days before she moved on to Carolina Springs. We were blunt, we shared the rumors of abuse and negligence we had heard in Costa Rica, and we let Hannah read the newspaper reports. Hannah assured us in her own words. "None of that happened" she told us. "It's really hard" she said, "and I miss my family, but I know that I am learning some very valuable things." Hannah had only been in Dundee ranch for a few months, and was still a level one with the fewest privileges and perks allowed. If anyone were to be negative about the school it would have been her. However after being in Dundee Ranch Hannah made the choice to go to Carolina Springs, because she knew it was in her best interest!!............ Its the same over and over amberly and the Brock twins all said they didn?t actually see abuse even though they first tried to put forth that argument and kid after kid has affirmed this was the case...Could Occam?s Razor be at work here (the principle that states the simplest solution in absence of other evidence is usually the truth) and we have a simple case of false allegations purported by vested interest and dubious persons that disrupted over 200 families and destroyed the lives of over 95 more? Truth is always independent of opinions.  It is the knowledge of things as they are and were and how they are yet to be I was there and have over 100 other witnesses to the fact that abuse didn?t exist Now if there was in any form I wasn?t honestly aware and if in fact it did exist I would say let due process have its way and if a staff did something like that let them go after that person. I saw the training that went on every night where the staff would be quizzed and even sign off on the training that insured that abuse was not allowed in any form?. if some staff did something different they did so without the authorization or knowledge of the administration and if so I would be the first to say go after them but quit condemning a whole facility for the unauthorized ?theoretical  actions of some staff who chose to not follow the ethics and codes of the company and the law??Again whoa unto them with eyes but will not see...I have included the following directly from my employee manual at  Dundee that we were tested on nightly and therefore knew  very well what the standards of the company was.  I never was aware of any such violations that I personally witnessed in my 2 years there I even recall a meeting that Mr. Lichfield held with all staff and students in the cafeteria following the Brock twins accusations. Mr. Lichfield told the students that if they were being mistreated in any way to let the administration know immediately. He explained again the only circumstances directly from the testing that passive restraint could be used. He also told the Staff and students the administration would have a full investigation on any allegations of this and would not protect any staff that broke the company rules and if a staff ignored the training and chose on their own to do something else he would turn them in if they broke the law in regards to Abusing any student?

Personal Growth of Students:
Staffs are not allowed to treat students in the following manner:
1.   Swearing at them
2.   Making fun of them
3.   Name calling or using nicknames
4.   Belittling or demeaning them
5.   Shouting at them
6.   Refer to them in a derogatory manner
7.   Using physical force other than for appropriate restraint according to training as taught in the Mandt or TLC      trainings and only in cases of endangerment by students of property, themselves, staff or others.
8.   Orders or commands should be replaced with request or invitations to cooperate.
9.   Threats or intimidation

EMPLOYEE CODE OF CONDUCT

Definitions:
For the purposes of this rule:

1.   Abuse to students will include but is not limited to:
A.   A strike with open or closed fist, slap, tap, spank, kick, push, shove.
B.   Any type of physical hitting or any type of physical punishment inflicted in any manner upon the body.
C.   Physical exercises, such as running laps or performing push-up, except in accordance with an individual's service plan when such activities are approved by the physician and carefully supervised by the facility administration.
D.   Requiring or forcing the individual to take an uncomfortable position, such as squatting or bending, or requiring or forcing the individual to repeat physical movements when used solely as a means of punishment.
E.   Chemical, mechanical or physical restraints except when authorized by individual's Personal Growth plan and administered by appropriate personnel or when threat of injury to the client or other persons exists.
F.   Assignment of unduly physically strenuous or harsh work.
G.   Encouragement to engage in or failure to attempt to deter behavior inherently dangerous.

2.    Maltreatment will include, but is not limited to:
A.   Group punishments for misbehavior of individuals except in accordance with the program's written policy.
B.   Verbal abuse; using language that impacts the well being of the individual.  This may include but is not limited to name-calling, teasing, humiliation, ridicule, use of foul and abusive language etc.
C.   Withholding any meal.
D.   Excessive denial of ongoing program services or denial of any essential program service solely for disciplinary purposes.
E.   Denial of visiting or communication privileges with family or significant others solely for disciplinary purposes.
F.   Denial of sufficient sleep.
G.   Requiring the individual to remain silent for long periods of time.
H.   Denial of shelter, clothing or bedding.
I.   Extensive withholding of emotional response or stimulation.
J.   Exclusion of the individual from entry to the residence.
K.   Failure to provide adequate supervision; including impairment of employee resulting in inadequate supervision.  Impairment of an employee may include but is not limited to use of alcohol and drugs, illness, sleeping.
L.   Failure to provide medical care and/or medical Personal Growth as prescribed or instructed by a physician.

 
3.    Sexual abuse and sexual exploitation will include, but not be limited to:
A.   Engaging in sexual intercourse with any student.
B.   Touching the anus or any part of the genitals or otherwise taking indecent liberties, or causing an individual to take indecent liberties with the intent to arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person.
C.   Employing, using, persuading, inducing, enticing or coercing an individual to pose in the nude for the purpose of sexual arousal of any person or for profit.
D.   Employing, using, persuading, inducing, enticing or coercing an individual to engage in any sexual or simulated sexual conduct for the purpose of photographing, filming, recording, or displaying in any way the sexual or simulated sexual conduct and includes displaying, distributing, possessing for the purpose of distribution, or selling material depicting nudity, or engaging in sexual or simulated sexual conduct.
E.   Committing or attempting to commit acts of sodomy or molestation.

4.   Exploitation will include, but is no limited to:
A.   Utilizing the labor or power of an individual without giving just or equivalent return.
B.   Taking or using property belonging to clients.
C.   Selling items to clients.
D.   Acceptance of gifts as a condition of receipt of program services.

Abuse, Neglect and Maltreatment Prohibited
1.   No contracted individual, agency, or employee shall abuse or neglect any student.
A.   No person shall cause physical injury to any student.  All injury to clients (explained or unexplained) shall be documented and immediately reported to supervisory personnel.
B.   Any person having reason to believe that any student has been subject to abuse shall immediately make a report to the Administrator.
C.   No person by acting, failing to act, encouragement to engage in, or failure to deter from will cause any individual to be subject to maltreatment physically, emotionally, socially, or intellectually.
D.   Any person having reason to believe that any student has been subject to such maltreatment shall document the situation and immediately make a report to the Administrator.

Sexual Abuse and Sexual Exploitation Prohibited
1.   No contracted individual, agency, or employee shall sexually abuse or sexually exploit any student.
A.   No person shall engage any individual as an observer or student in sexual acts.
B.   Any person having reason to be believe that any student has been subjected to sexual abuse or exploitation shall document the situation and immediately make a report to the Administrator.

 
Student Exploitation Prohibited
1.   No contracted individual, agency, or employee shall exploit any student.
A.   No person shall make unjust or improper use of an individual or their resources for profit of advantage.
B.   Any person having reason to be believed that any client has been subject to exploitation shall document the situation and immediately make a report to the Administrator.

Reporting Requirements
1.   Any contracted individual, agency, or employee is responsible to document and report abuse, neglect, maltreatment and exploitation as outlined in this Code and cooperate fully in any resulting investigation.
A.   Any person will immediately report abuse, neglect, maltreatment or exploitation, in writing, to the Administrator.   During weekends and on holidays such reports will be made to the District Office of Community Operations On-Call worker.
B.   All reports and documentation made regarding situations of abuse, neglect, and exploitation will be made available upon request to the Administrator.

2.    Any person, including, but not limited to, any social worker, physician, psychologist, chaperone, teacher, or employee, who has a reason to believe that any person has been subject to abuse, neglect, or exploitation, shall immediately notify in writing to the Administrator.

3.   Anyone who, in good faith, makes such a report shall be immune from civil liability in connection with the report.

4.   Any person required to report a suspected case of abuse, neglect, or exploitation, who willfully fails to do so, is guilty of a class B misdemeanor.

5.   Any person, who abuses, neglects, or exploits, is guilty of a third degree felony.
With any violations of these, the student has a right to file a grievance and disciplinary action would occur where appropriate.
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« Reply #52 on: February 18, 2004, 09:18:00 PM »
Talk is cheap.  Dirt collects in dark corners.  Sunshine is the best disinfectant.

If you program supporters didn't have dirt in your dark corners, you wouldn't be fighting oversight tooth and nail.

It continues to amaze me to talk to law students -- college
graduates all and smarter than the average bear -- who will
seriously tell me about how dangerous mj is and how it
destroys the lives of those who use it and who, in the
very next sentence, will tell me how they and their
friends -- now CPAs, engineers, med students -- used
pot regularly through high school and college.  And
they don't see the contradiction between these statements.

We're not just talking ignorance here -- we are talking
deep down, serious, religious indoctrination.


--Buford C. Terrell, Professor of Law, South Texas College of Law

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« Reply #53 on: February 18, 2004, 09:26:00 PM »
Dear folks,

Allow me to reiterate who I am:  my name is Christopher Riner, and I attended Dundee (as a student) from January of 2002, until May of 2003.  I have sent one email to you in the past in response to an article that you had posted about the Academy, and received no word from any staff at Tico Times.

I want to start off by asking that you please not throw away my opinion just because I am an advocate of the school- something I learned from the school was that the key to understanding a lot of times is by not letting emotions get in the way; take a neutral approach to what I have to say.  And also, I do not consider myself an advocate of Dundee; I simply disagree with how you are going about portraying the school.  

I understand that interesting writing has conflict in it.  I understand that the more controversial the school sounds in writing makes it more interesting to read, and I understand that you all are a profit center.  So was Dundee.  I understand this, and I am 19 years old.  When I look back on all of the time I spent in the dorm rooms with 6 or 9 people in it (which is the true, unexaggerated amount), I was uncomfortable at first.  It was difficult for me to place myself in that entirely new environment.  But throughout all of the hardships that I had at Dundee (that didn?t include abuse or malnutrition), the only thing that I had to fear was my childhood slipping out from under me back at my home 3,000 miles away.  The first three months I would have done anything just so that I could get back home and snort cocaine with my old friends.  I missed having control of my life.  I went from doing whatever I wanted, to being on schedule 24/7- I couldn?t go watch a movie when I wanted to, or go to the beach whenever I wanted to (but I did go enough times to be able to take YOU around Costa Rica).  And everyday I focused on all of these bad things and I wanted out?if you would have approached me at Dundee and said, ?I will give you a ride to your house in the states right now, will you take it??, I would have said yes every single day but one- the day that I actually did leave.  I believe this is consistent with every other kid that attended the school- not a single one of us will look back and think that it was all a waste of time.  We all learned a lot from there, and we all know it.

In conclusion, I see myself as a much stronger person now, thanks to myself.  It wasn?t Dundee that fixed me, it just gave me the environment I needed to get my life in order before I lose it.  When my parents decided to send me to Dundee, they knew it wasn?t a guarantee that I would be ?fixed,? they sent me because they knew it was my best opportunity to it.

I asked in my last message that you please refrain from targeting Dundee, but evidently you did not hear my pleas and so I am proposing a new method for handling the conflict between you at Tico Times, and us at the Dundee community:  allow us to make posts in your paper about the school.  If you agree to this, then you can have the final say over whether you will place it in the paper or not, based on if you think it is showing malice towards you at Tico Times?because this is not what we want to do, we just want to put in a good word so that all people are hearing is one side of the story.  Please respond to this request as soon as possible.  Thank you again for your time.  

Christopher F. Riner
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« Reply #54 on: February 18, 2004, 09:44:00 PM »
Come back in five years and say whatever you have to say about your TBS experience.  Too often the accounts of fresh program leavers or grads are bare of detail compared to their accounts in later years, and too often we hear from program grads five to fifteen years on who say that when they were fresh program leavers or grads they either thought what they went through was okay when it wasn't or they were still too scared to talk about everything that happened.

Because of that phenomenon, those of us outside the program inmate/parent/owner/staff world have to give more weight to the accounts of people who left the program several years ago than to the accounts of people who left the program less than a year ago.

It's a bit like talking to someone fresh out of Scientology, the Unification Church, or TM.

I believe that human beings arrive on this Earth wanting to know absolutely everything, and the best thing we can do as parents is to get out of the way -- just be there to let them know what opportunities are there
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« Reply #55 on: February 18, 2004, 10:02:00 PM »
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Mr. Lichfield held with all staff and students in the cafeteria following the Brock twins accusations.


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Brock twins all said they didn?t actually see abuse


How do you define abuse?  

Didn't the Bock twins say that they had to kneel for certain periods of time in OP and that it was painful.  Do you think that constitutes abuse?

I think before we can determine if someone has been abused we have to determine what abuse is.
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« Reply #56 on: February 19, 2004, 12:00:00 AM »
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On 2004-02-18 18:44:00, Timoclea wrote:

"Come back in five years and say whatever you have to say about your TBS experience.  Too often the accounts of fresh program leavers or grads are bare of detail compared to their accounts in later years, and too often we hear from program grads five to fifteen years on who say that when they were fresh program leavers or grads they either thought what they went through was okay when it wasn't or they were still too scared to talk about everything that happened.



Because of that phenomenon, those of us outside the program inmate/parent/owner/staff world have to give more weight to the accounts of people who left the program several years ago than to the accounts of people who left the program less than a year ago.



It's a bit like talking to someone fresh out of Scientology, the Unification Church, or TM.

I believe that human beings arrive on this Earth wanting to know absolutely everything, and the best thing we can do as parents is to get out of the way -- just be there to let them know what opportunities are there
-- Dorothy Werner, media liaison for the National Homeschool Association

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Okay, everyone wanted a grad to share something and now you don't care to hear or acknowledge it unless he's been home for 5 years.  Hey, make sure you tell him he was abused and didn't even know it.  That's your M.O., right?
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« Reply #57 on: February 19, 2004, 12:04:00 AM »
P.S. - I had to kneel on wood in church 6 days a week for 8 years and then some.  I know it's not the same thing.  BUT, I am saying that if we chose not to, the consequences were rougher.  If know the consequences for not following the rules, then we made the choice to kneel if that was the consequence....  no one is a victim, but that's the easy way to justify your ignorance.
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« Reply #58 on: February 19, 2004, 08:18:00 AM »
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P.S. - I had to kneel on wood in church 6 days a week for 8 years and then some.


Did you have to kneel in church for punishment? Or, were you kneeling in Church because of your faith or beleif in something and it was your choice to do so?

What would have happened to you had you not kneeled in church vs. what would have happened to the Bock twins had they not kneeled in OP?
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« Reply #59 on: February 19, 2004, 09:34:00 AM »
Christopher,

do you believe that anything else-another program, therapy, or just growing up would have helped..or is it only Dundee that could have saved you?
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