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Date Posted: 19:13:21 07/21/03 Mon
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No, my friend. It is even sadder yet thay you have not realized this program's true means of "lifesaving". It starts at the very beginning. Do you remember the first few weeks you were there? How much you hated it? How much you cried? How you thought life in this place would never come to an end? Do you remember praying to God every night that your parents might pull you? That a wall might collapse? Do you remember daydreaming about escaping, running towards the border? Do you remember thinking of exactly the right things to write to your parents so that, maybe, they might realize that your emotions are genuine and that you're not trying to "manipulate" your way out of it? If you are like any other child sent there, you know EXACTLY what I mean. And you know what they did to you? They told you every day as a lower level how bad you were. How you deserved the mistreatment, the neglect, the loneliness. They told you your parents didn't mind not having you around. They told you they were off on vacation, enjoying their life for once, without you. They told you that you're a NOBODY unless you graduate. They tell you that if you leave, and you make a mistake, you will suffer the consequences greatly. But they tell you, oh thank God you're parents sent you there, otherwise you'd be dead. Oh thank God you're safe, because now all you have to do is trade in the drugs or the bad grades or the sex for mental pain, giving up your basic human rights, neglect, and the absolute worst feeling in the world. And I think you know what that feeling is all too well. Do you remember your first 24 hours there? Do you remember the first 72 hours? What about the first week? Or that entire month? And yet, your parents still didn't pull you. You gave up hope. That's what you did. You couldn't rely on your parents, you only had yourself now. You believed everything they told you. You played THEIR game now, so that you could get the next level - the next step closer to going home. You dealt with it. You put on an act for so long, that you started to believe it. You started to believe it when they would tell you in seminars "this is the best for your", "you would be dead without this". You believed them. It's simple psychology really. You've believed it for so long that you still remain in denial about it. And that, my friend, is what is sad. I, too, "played the game" there. Do you remember "fake it to make it"? I sure as hell do. That was the only way to survive in that God forsaken hell hole. I was pulled and thought for several months after that that I needed that place. I was in denial for so long. It's taken me being home for 6 months to realize the true depths of that place. I know their scam. And you know what? They're luring desperate parents in every day. Do NOT belittle my emotions. You DO NOT know what I experienced. I am in NO WAY a drama queen, and I have every intention of bringing down WWASP, not because I'm a selfish shit who had a bad experience and wants to seek revenge. No. But because I know what they do, I know what these kids experience. And I know that there is a much better solution out there then all the pain, the money loss, the manipulation, and the psychological issues these places bring. Seventy dollars a day for what? I'm sure you've asked yourself that several times. That shit we ate? A sad mistake for food, I tell you. Pure fat. They buy cheap food in bulk.. Which means more lard on their meat. Do they care? No. They baked it up and gave it to us anyway. Beans and rice every day. Damn, that's healthy. You really think beans and rice cost very much in MEXICO?! haha. The salad? Made girls have the runs. Remember unit job every day? Remember major clean every week? Do you remember the plumbing being so bad that you couldn't flush the toilet paper after it was used? Do you remember the heat, combined with the shit encrusted paper made the smell intollerable? Do you remember having to pick out that paper, WITH YOUR BARE HANDS, and putting it in a bigger bag to throw away? Do you remember (if you were on the girls' side) the courtyard, and how the mexican street sewage would leak into the grass. Do you remember how the mama's would make us rip weeds out, again, with our bare hands? Do you remember the leeches that lived within this miniature swamp? Do you know that I have an infection on my hand, now, and am currently taking a topical treatment to try to reduce the bumps? Do you ever once remember any type of sanitation being used? Do you ever remember once getting any type of decent food? Except for when the parents showed up of course. They would take the kids out and make them clean the place up like a 5 star hotel just for the parents. We got decent food for once. How can they tell us to step out of our images, not be fake, don't manipulate, while at the same time, they are being accused of exactly that? Do you remember any proper schooling? We had books. We read. We taught ourselves. We took a mutliple choice test with 40 questions. We possibly had a mexican lady in the back of the room every other day who might be able to assist us. That was about it. Now, I don't know about you, but I do not consider that a proper education at all. Oh, you got straight A's and B's did you? Well that's because a B is getting 20 out of 40 questions right. You know what that is in American public schools? That's an F. Wow, some test. You can't get anything lower than a B or they make you retake it. It certainly makes the school look good. But in reality, they just cheat their way out. Just another thing to use to bribe to parents. This is afterall, a "5 star boarding school. Everyone here has recieved a 3.0 average or above. Yes, they're bright kids they are, once they come here, anyway. Here, sign them up." Very, very sad. I'm 18 now, attending college, have a job, and met a great man and have been dating for 3 months now. I was pulled. You don't have to graduate to be a "winner". You are sorely mistaken. To the parents: Please don't send your child there. Please look into some other option. PLEASE. I beg of you. From one bleeding heart to the next.
