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Offline Deborah

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« Reply #210 on: August 13, 2005, 02:15:00 PM »
Andrea,
You just said, in another thread:
 I again post my name at the bottom of my posts and do it all the time so please don't confuse me with others.
Andrea

Why don't you use your PFRR log in?????
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« Reply #211 on: August 13, 2005, 02:28:00 PM »
We get a late night talk show here in Charlottesville, VA
(starts at 1 AM) called the "Joey Reynolds Show".
I've heard the host really pump Desisto School
and talk about Mike Desisto like he was some
kind of god. Apparently Mr. Reynolds put his son
in Desisto. Anyone heard of this guy?

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.


--Voltaire (1694-1778)

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« Reply #212 on: August 13, 2005, 02:43:00 PM »
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« Reply #213 on: August 13, 2005, 02:47:00 PM »
By the way, not to sound stupid, but what is a PFRR?
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« Reply #214 on: August 13, 2005, 02:53:00 PM »
BTW I once heard Reynolds say on his show that
Mike Desisto could look at someone and know what
he was thinking. Scary.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. For when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.


--Nietzsche

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« Reply #215 on: August 13, 2005, 06:20:00 PM »
Mike DeSisto is no longer an issue except in the minds of those he was able to abuse, that lingers on for life.  I am so glad they are gone but wish they were stopped for good.
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« Reply #216 on: August 13, 2005, 06:47:00 PM »
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On 2005-08-13 11:53:00, tommyfromhyde1 wrote:

"BTW I once heard Reynolds say on his show that

Mike Desisto could look at someone and know what

he was thinking. Scary.




Oh my! Some people still think that about Art Barker.

Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Here grow the wallflower and the violet. The squirrel will come and sit upon your knee, the logcock will wake you in the morning. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill. Of all the upness accessible to mortals, there is no upness comparable to the mountains.
-- John Muir

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« Reply #217 on: August 19, 2005, 10:49:00 AM »
There's a new DeSisto group on myspace

http://groups.myspace.com/desistoschool
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« Reply #218 on: August 22, 2005, 11:23:00 PM »
I was a student at Desisto during 95-96 and one of the original cast members of the show "Inappropriate". The real creators of that production were the students. It was their words, their true confessional experiences, that made up the entire script. The original director/choreographer's name was Lonni. He was a brilliant and talented man who never bought into Desisto's bullshit. Any positive experience I gained from that production I owe to him.
I feel fortunate that I was able to take part in that production because it allowed me an escape from the horrible day-to-day life--the humiliation, the punishments, and the sadness-- that the Desisto school and Michael Desisto himself surrounded us all in.
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« Reply #219 on: August 26, 2005, 12:13:00 PM »
I was there from 94-97- of course there were many terrible things- but honestly- some of the best friends I will ever know were "Desisto Kids"- no one else will ever understand what went on there unless the lived it- telling new people about it- makes us look crazy- I remember the show- I have the video- if only the whole experience could have been as helpful as some of the intensives were- alot more of us would have made it.
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« Reply #220 on: August 30, 2005, 07:18:00 PM »
I agree with you. The intensives were the best part. I wish more of us had made it. I'm glad to hear you did.
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« Reply #221 on: October 14, 2005, 12:40:00 PM »
the statements made by OCCS and the Berkshire Eagle were only partly true.  besides minor details that were lied about and altered, their representaion of Desisto was inaccurate and unfair. the only ones with the right to bad mouth this place are the ones that lived there. and even then the complaints can be unjustified
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« Reply #222 on: October 14, 2005, 12:56:00 PM »
OCCS untrue?  The Abuses and awful so called treatment were not untrue at all, as a matter of fact the persons running that place were sick in the head.  I also am miffed that a person who has a employment history of painting and no degree is running the New So Called School in Florida one of Desisto's clonies.  Really folks wake up and smell the coffee, it was a cult, it is a cult, and any parent who would send their kid there is an awful parent, and uncaring.  Any Ed Consultant who refers there is a scam artist with no morals.
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« Reply #223 on: October 15, 2005, 01:26:00 AM »
I kinda stumbled upon this forum doing a little soul searching. I went to Desisto for over a year(can't remember the dates, probably suppressed the horrible memory of the school). It was the worst experience of my life, and that comes from a person with a lot to compare it against. I am glad to hear the school is in ruin, but what does that leave for the rest of us who were truly abused there?  I was just wondering if there was legal action that I could help with or be a part of. The downfall of the school is nice, but revenge would be sweeter. I was one of the most problamatic students ever to grace the school's presence, but in normal society have flurished despite the emotional scarring it left. To any prospective parents looking to enrol their child in this school: Beware, believe the rumors, most are true, and they all hold some truth!
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« Reply #224 on: October 21, 2005, 05:28:00 PM »
Sherri- oh my god- how are you?!?!!?  "Was that before or after the coaster set"
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