One thing I want to tell you guys, you angry ppl making threats. You probably don't have any real idea what the Sudweeks and the edcons tell the parents. I understand that you probably either take their word for it or pretend to. Been there and I did and would do just exactly the same. No blame there.
But I've heard the same complaint from numerous families now over the years. Not just the families of Whitmore kids, but from a lot of the programs going all the way back to The Seed in 1971.
While we were unable to communicate w/ our families, we were told that whatever they did to us was our own fault. "You did the necessary things...." was a mantra which was often followed by just exactly the type of language and disparagment that I've seen you kids use against each other. It's hard to watch, but I think I understand.
What I didn't know then, not for many, many years later when I finally had an itch to look up other program people, is that they were not telling the parents exactly the same thing. They were telling the parents whatever they wanted to hear until they could gain enough influence over them to get them to go along w/ the program.
So when one after another of these parents come along and tell us that they were told something vastly different from what was going on, I tend to believe them. And when you kids respond w/ such rage and indignation, I understand that too. But you can't all be right and you can't all be wrong. I would suggest that you figure out a way to speak privately w/ your parents and ask them what they've been told and sold and you see for yourself whether or not the stories add up.
Faith is believing something you know ain't true.
--Samuel Clemens "Mark Twain", American author and humorist
