Thayer Learning Center in Kidder MO

[Anonymous]

I understand that Thayer is working for you and I am happy that your child is doing better, but I have great knowledge on how the program works.  

You are exactly right, if and only if every employee knows what they are doing.  Thayer has a very large turn-over rate and that makes it hard to keep everyone on the same page.

The program is set up wonderfully and will work that way I hope sometime, so long as dictators are present everyday, not just Mon-Thurs, and off and on.

I have hope for the program and the few people who work there that actully care.

[Anonymous]

when were you there?

[Anonymous]

I was there in the spring of 2003 all the way to Christmas.

[Deborah]

The anonymous parent on page 12 who condoned the abuse of his child started a new thread at:
http://fornits.com/wwf/viewtopic.php?to ... um=9#60020

[Anonymous]

Sorry you were there at all.  I hope your life is a better one now, it doesnt matter if the reason it is better is thayer or you.  I am looking for anyone that has been there in the past 5 months.  Take care and carry on

[Anonymous]

Iwas there up until about a month ago for about nine months. That place is so poorly run i lived in pathetic overcrowded conditions very little of the employees there have ever had military training or counseler training for that matter most employees are barely older than me. I have freinds who are probably still there they choked one of my freinds out and smashed his face into the concrete (broken teeth)for not exercising, he didn't fight back didn't antagonize etc. then they made him face a corner for a little over a month!!!!!!!!!! they told us the key word in PASSIVE resistance was resistance!!! similiar incidents happen regularly!!!!!!!!!!!

[Anonymous]

I was in that program ... this is how the owners can get away with promoting there program on every sight about parenthelp.  John bundy owns parent help, his wife owns Thayer learning center (technically) although while I was there Mr Bundy ran the program just as much as Mr Bundy. Oh and the parent help center is about a ten minute drive from that place in the same office the program handles all it's financial work etc.

[Anonymous]

I think I know the person you are talking about.
They payed to have his tooth fixed right?  Is he still there?

[Anonymous]

I wasn't actually in the program, I worked at Thayer, so I know more about the truth and how the program works.  

I am not saying that Thayer is all bad, I believe they have good intensions, but their program hardly ever works as planned.  

I would say that kids in the program are mistreated, but honestly I have never seen anyone just beat a child, atleast not when I was around.  

The worst thing to me, is the lack of medical treatment.  Even a person in jail  has more rights to see a doctor then a child in Thayer.  

There were times when 5 kids or more had pink eye and instead of sending each to the doctor they would use the same medication.  I was a sargent and they expected me to distribute the meds and I refused to give someone meds that belonged to someone else.  Im not saying that happend all the time, but on weekends when there was no one to take the kids, that is what we were told to do.  

I personally would never send a child to Thayer.  I believe all problems start at home for whatever the reason, and I would fix them at home.  I know that isn't always possible, but to me, Thayer would not be an option.

The kids are emotionally stressed and have serious problems and at times, (most of the time) have no one to talk to.  A family Rep might see a child once every two weeks, that is if they are behaving.  

I learned a lot from working at Thayer and I am very glad I am no longer there.

[Anonymous]

I worked there too.  When were you there?

[Anonymous]

I was at Thayer from Spring of 2003 until right before Christmas

[Anonymous]

Do you know Kenyan?  Or Windle?

[Anonymous]

I was there from fall 2002 until winter2002/spring2003, when the program first started.I got in contact with a few people who graduated the program and they said it got a lot "softer" but "lengthier".After 2 weeks when I was there, you could be a resident...


I heard from one of my friends there that Sargent Lollar became a Drill Sargent then was crying one day and left and the cadets never saw him again, is that true?

I also heard "George" got sent back after he left and he died in August last year :scared:

I also heard that fat kid Olson became a sargent and is still there :scared: !I know they did before when I was there, we were cleaning somewhere I forget but it wasnt at Thayer, but they didnt get caught.So how did they get caught that time?

Also I heard that some guy named Marshall(who I heard completed the program 75% faster than regular  :scared:


O.K. thats enough for now, Ill ask a few more later.


BTW B.W. (his initials)(my friend who told me all this) or anyone who knows him , can you tell him to call me  :cry:

[Anonymous]

Now becomming a resident takes alot longer, some kids have been in bootcamp for 4-6 months.
None of those people are still there.  There is a new man running the place now, it was in the news paper and they are doing alot of reconstruction.  A friend of mine works there, alot of people have been fired since this new guy came.  They have a woman Drill Sergeant.  The program is more intense now but the conditions are still the same.  No medical treatment when needed.  Junior Staff now works with bootcamp and can smoke them when they see a need.  They also take notes on the sergeants to give to the directors.  Kids watching Kids not a good idea.  You know how vendictive and mean Kids can be.  All bootcampers cant wait to become residents to come smoke the one person they couldnt stand in bootcamp.
I can see where a program like this would work but it would have to be consistant, there should be no difference from one Sergeant to the next, like the militaty.  They must be making good money they are remodeling and building a new building.  Its sad to think that parents cant handle thier own children and have to resort to this.  I would like to know what the mental problems are that surface after going through something like this.  Was there a kid there named Slade when you were there?  He is back, he came back and went right into Jr. Staff.

[Anonymous]

I recognize the names, but I don't know them.  Were they sent by the Bundy family to work?  I left before christmas.  

As  for the writer with all the questions, George did leave the program and died from a four-wheeler accident.  Humphries did run with two other cadets, one was Slade and the other I can't remember.  He was a resident when that happened.

Last I knew Olsen was working as a sargent, but I believe he is older then 16.  I have no idea about the Greenleaf sex story and as for Marshall, I don't think he flirted with a sargent but if he did, the sargent with the last name "B" would be Burns.