Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > The Ridge Creek School / Hidden Lake Academy
Ridge Creek "School" - Serious Safety Issues/ORS Violation
Whooter:
--- Quote from: "RobertBruce" ---The tuition at Harvard is 38 thousand and change. The room and board puts the total up to 50. The incidentals aren't being counted at RC, so for this we shouldn't count them at Harvard. Either way however the total is less than Ridge Creek, and by far much less abusive.
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The payments to RCS include Room and Board.
--- Quote ---After paying almost six grand a month? Why shouldn't he take a cut? I mean what are these parents paying for right now anyway?
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Because we dont know what he is making now, Robert. Right now the accountants have it structured so that everyone gets paid at the end of the month. If they add expenses then they need to either increase their income (pass it off to the consumer) or take money away from peoples pay. Would you take a cut in pay to help pay for a night guard in your company so that the night people would be safer? Not many people would. I am sure the owner is given a salary like everyone else.
I agree that they seem to need more help (especially at night), but I dont know enough about their expenses and salaries to understand how the extra expenses should be covered.
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Whooter:
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--- Quote from: "The gatekeeper" ---$175 per day is inexpensive.
CALO (Change Academy Lake of the Ozarks)
--- Quote ---$250 - $400 per day.
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No, just one is more expensive than the other. Would either one of you stay in a Motel 6 for $175.00 a night?
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The prices are set by you and I, Robert. If people started paying $175 a night for a motel 6 and they rented all their rooms everynight then they would raise their rates until there was not a back log anymore. On the other hand if no one paid $175 a night for a Motel 6 then they would be forced to lower their price. They would continue to lower their price until people started to pull off the highway and check in. Once they get enough people coming in this will define what their rooms are worth. If there was a Motel 6 in Times Square, they would probably get $1,000 a night on New Years eve and you would have to book a year in advance.
The people set the prices for things, not the manufacturers. The parents set the price for RCS, not the owners.
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RobertBruce:
I disagree. People won't pay high prices if they know they are recieving a crap product. Program owners like Buchi use scare tactics and false advertising to lure lazy/desperate parents in and then provide a useless product. When it doesn't work they simply claim it's the parents/child's fault.
heretik:
--- Quote from: "RobertBruce" ---I disagree. People won't pay high prices if they know they are recieving a crap product. Program owners like Buchi use scare tactics and false advertising to lure lazy/desperate parents in and then provide a useless product. When it doesn't work they simply claim it's the parents/child's fault.
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Thank you.... :tup:
Whooter:
--- Quote from: "RobertBruce" ---I disagree. People won't pay high prices if they know they are recieving a crap product. Program owners like Buchi use scare tactics and false advertising to lure lazy/desperate parents in and then provide a useless product. When it doesn't work they simply claim it's the parents/child's fault.
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Its okay to disagree, this is the strength of the forum design. I think you are right in one respect, Robert, that if someone is providing a crap product then people will not purchase it. If RCS does not provide a product worth its price then it will fold. The fact that it is thriving can be considered testimony that it is providing a service worthy of the price that it demands.
This is why I suggest that parents speak to parents who have had kids go through the program. This way the new prospective parents get a chance to ask some tough questions which the program may not want to answer.
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