Sue's Letter to the PTA

[Carey]

Beware of Bounty Hunters for WWASP/WWASPS
From: Sue Scheff
Date: 02 Sep 2003
Time: 12:00:01
Remote Name: 64.12.96.43


Comments
Dear Donna, I have known you for several years now, and have so much respect for what you did to get your boys back home safe. I only wish I had read your statement prior being recruited by WWASP/WWASPS. My daughter ended up in one of their programs and the results were horrific. I was desperate and they took advantage of me with the misrepresentation of their program. Since that time, back in 2000, there is now a Class Action Lawsuit against them getting ready to be filed. It is being filed by The Huron Law Group, with the support of Ed Masry and Erin Brockovich. There will be justice for our children and ourselves. Since this happened, I felt a need to give parents a resource avenue to help them when they are desperate, as I once was. I have created PURE, Inc. http://www.helpyourteens.com to help parents find safe and qualifed schools and programs and also offer a listing of adolescent local therapists. We have been approved by the Broward County School District and the Better Business Bureau. Thank you for giving us an opportunity to let parents know our experiences. Sincerely, Sue Scheff Weston, FL http://www.browardpta.com/_disc1/00000002.htm

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[Anonymous]

What is she thinking?  If she is thinking at all?  I'm not a lawyer, but this looks like defamation to me...not to mention she didn't share with this school district what programs and schools she refers parents to.  What does this say about this school district- blindly posting something like this?

I hope WWASPS gets wind of this one.

[Anonymous]

Okay, I just realized this school has a forum where parents can post anything.  It still seems very wrong to allow this sort of advertisements, from any group on a school forum.

[Antigen]

Let me tell ya'll a little bit about Broward County School District! It took me 9 years to finally decide that no formal education was better than sending my kids to BCS.

I once knew a girl who threatened to slug the assistant principal at Deerfield High. I'd been hearing about this assistant principal, Mrs. Free, for a couple of years, from good kids who never got into trouble as well as the ones who always did. She was just one of those mean spirited, small minded people that loved shoving the kids around.

Well, this one day, she walks int a classroom and starts telling everyone to sit down. Nothing wrong with that, but the tone and demeanor she always used. Then she put her hands on this one girl and told her, and I quote, "You sit the fuck down or I'll knock you into next week." So cliche, I know. But there were several witnesses. She really said it. So the kid put her fist up and dared her to do it.

Did this alleged adult get called down for threatening violence on students? Hell no! The kid got arrested for threatening to defend herself, taken down to the Juvenile Intervention Facility a half hour's drive away, given Welbutrin (to manage her 'anger problem') and the mother informed that the kid would be staying till they determined how best to treat her pathology.

Then there was the day I volunteered for a book sale and heard the art teacher in the next room cursing at students, then there was a scuffle with chairs and tables scraping accross the floor followed by a loud thump on the wall. I guess he didn't get the memo that parents would be there that day. The whole room went silent in shock, except for the staff who just looked frightened and embarrased and I, who wasn't really that surprised.

I'm sure BCSD will be fertile recruiting grounds for PURE. They already regard their students as dangerous animals and I'm sure they won't have any problem at all with the tactics employed by the escort services.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use

--Galileo Galilei

[Anonymous]

Is Erin Brockovich REALLY okay with Sue Scheff name dropping to further the monetary gain she is receiving by WWASP slamming?  

I also read the BCSD Forum and see that WWASP also posted, BIG DIFFERENCE is that they didn't bash/slam anyone in the process.

When will this Sue Scheff stand on her own merit, if she has any merit, and quit bashing to make a living scaring the hell out of parents?

[Antigen]

Excerpt from "Duck in a Raincoat"

"In 1971 Joe appeared on WGAN-TV in Portland and described the new therapeutic community he was running with Sherry as "a private drug treatment center that incorporated physical, intellectual, and therapeutic components to instill self-esteem, self-reliance, and a capacity to love in the individual." Previously he had described his work at Daytop, and DARTEC in similar fashion, but in building up Elan, he criticized those communities for being violent, and damaging."

http://www.thestraights.com/articles/elan.htm

This, BTW, is just about exactly how Art Barker hawked The Seed (like Synanon, only kinder, gentler) and how the Semblers, Loenberg(sp?) and their cohorts marketed Straight, Inc., the kinder, gentler Seed. And so it goes with SAFE, KHK, AARC, CEDU -> Brown, and so on and so on till people wake up to the fact that this dog don't hunt nothing but it's own tail.

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.

--Thomas Paine

[kaydeejaded]

just remind me to stay the hell out of Florida Texas ect. because I couldn't keep my mouth shut in Straight and I am even louder and more opinionated now.

WWASP named after something that stings you (bad)
PURE just weird and finatical

who really needs treatment here

they are FREAKS finatic
                retarded
                narssacistic
                totalitarian
                ignorant
                cloned
                sociopaths

shit half the kids probably want to do drugs just to make sure they don't end up like them

PURE vs WWASP
 ::armed:: let them go at each other problem solved jeez freaky finatics

lock em in a room with me for 13months I will give the the reverse Straight treatment. Hehehehe problem there is I have a soul, I would just blast them with "rock and roll" and make them all smoke doobies.      

If we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion by education

--Thomas Jefferson

[kaydeejaded]

nice quote Mac!

The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun.
-- Patrick Henry

[tommyfromhyde1]

just wondering... I wonder if PURE is referring parents to Hyde.
After all Hyde isn't  Quite as bad as WWASP
or Straight or Elan......
                   Peace,
                       Tommy

The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad.
-- Salvador Dali

[Antigen]

Good to hear from you. I hope you're well.

I wonder if they refer to Hyde too. I heard Hyde uses Red Rock Canyon wilderness program as a stick to keep the kids inline. Don't know if that's still true or not.

But we can't seem to get any answers at all out of PURE. They got pretty bent out of shape when I posted the results of a "free info" inquery. (which was essentially just a stroke and directive to call the same number as was on the public web page)

I've repeatedly asked these folks to list some of the schools they refer to, to comment on the use of escort (kidnapping) services and to explain the difference between PURE and WWASP. All they want to do, though, is demonize critics.

Maybe you can get somewhere with them.

Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its
best state is but a necessary evil ---in its worst state an
intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same
miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without
government, our calamities is heightened by reflecting that we
furnish the means by which we suffer!


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679433147/circlofmiamithem' target='_new'>Thomas Paine, Common Sense

[tommyfromhyde1]

Hi Antigen, I'm well but my phone wires are
messed up so I'm reduced to using an
internet cafe.
I saw a post a while back by a girl from Hyde
who said she was sent to RRC on the A&E
board that started after they did some
documentery about it. She didn't post again
though. Do you ever hear about Hyde from
anyone else?
Peace,
Tommy

A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.


--Voltaire, philosopher (1694-1778)

[Antigen]

No, very rarely. Though a friend of mine had a little step brother there for a short time. She was worried about it and asked what I knew, so I pointed her at your posts on the old forum. After the first visit, the parents realized something was very, very wrong and pulled him out. This kid had gone voluntarily, looking for some military like structure or something along those lines. So he fell for it hook, line and sinker.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism--how passionately I hate them!
--Albert Einstein