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Offline Anonymous

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« on: June 29, 2004, 12:26:00 AM »
Roy S. here...

I dreamt every single day when I was in Springfield (March - November '85, moved to Boston till Jan '86) of the day someone would walk in there and announce, "You're all going home, they're shutting us down, it's been real."

CHAOS!! oh, the joyous chaos that would ensue! I would have wept, screamed for joy, said good bye to some of the people...

Or did they wait until everyone was in their host homes and quietly distribute them from there back to their parents?

What happened? Was anyone there on THE DAY when they shut down Straight?

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« Reply #1 on: June 29, 2004, 12:43:00 AM »
dig around on this site, its all here from what they tell me.
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« Reply #2 on: June 29, 2004, 12:57:00 AM »
I can tell you how it ended in my dream.  In a huge revolt that culminates in the Gandy bldg. going up in a blaze.  We slow roast Miller and Ruth Ann while dancing naked around the fire toasting each other with Dom and smoking some big ole Bob Marleys. :smokin:  :grin:  :grin:

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« Reply #3 on: June 29, 2004, 01:25:00 AM »
No its not here...I have yet to talk to anyone that knows strangely enough..

 I have asked that question many times.

 I heard at the Dallas one that all of the kids kind of walked off
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« Reply #4 on: June 29, 2004, 05:16:00 PM »
From what I remember the closings and moves occured quick to us. We would be given a day or two notice that we were in need of bringing our things to the bldg. Which usaly consisted of a paper bag containing a tooth brush comb deoderant and a change of clothing and OH YEAH! our MI's. When Atlanta opened only the oldcomers and staff moved up to be in the bldg for newcomers. When Straight Orlando closed they didn't even move, it was simple. That very day the staff arrived and announced the name changed to SAFE that was it. I believe it was the same for Pathways. LIFER'S were taken from Sarasota and  oved into the Osprey bldg. Pretty fucked-up HUH
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« Reply #5 on: June 30, 2004, 12:03:00 AM »
Nah some of them closed all the way down...
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« Reply #6 on: June 30, 2004, 07:22:00 AM »
You are right some bldgs just closed down but most of them just moved the kids from one place to another until they could find a bigger building.
Some of the bldgs closed but STRAIGHT NEVER DID. The methods and practrices are still in existance today
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« Reply #7 on: June 30, 2004, 06:26:00 PM »
Yep...But most of the Dallas kids actually got up and walked out..
 The whole group was misbehaving at this point..and I think a window was broken and they all just left..

 Theres one person that knows his story firsthand perhaps she will pop up and post it for you, I forget the details...

 (Im well aware straights still in operation under serveral names)
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« Reply #8 on: July 04, 2004, 09:40:00 PM »
"...We would be given a day or two notice that we were in need of bringing our things to the bldg. When Atlanta opened only the oldcomers and staff moved up to be in the bldg for newcomers. When Straight Orlando closed they didn't even move, it was simple. That very day the staff arrived and announced the name changed to SAFE that was it. I believe it was the same for Pathways. "

Interesting. I was in STRAIGHT Atlanta when it shut down. We relocated to a new building and were called Phoenix Institute for Adolescents. We did not have to bring anything out of the ordinary to the building, no clients were withdrawn, and ALL clients were moved. Within days we were joined by several clients from the Tampa(?) location. I could be mistaken about the city, but I know they were from a STRAIGHT program in Florida. Why would STRAIGHT move them to Atlanta if the SAFE program was in Florida? Please if you know the answer enlighten me. We received no clients from any other programs at the shutdown, though there was a client that had been in Dallas STRAIGHT and one that had been in Michigan STRAIGHT (may not have been Michigan, but was some NE state).
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« Reply #9 on: July 04, 2004, 09:41:00 PM »
Oh yeah, and the Tampa clients were both new and oldcomers. I want to say they flew? I could be mistaken about this...
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« Reply #10 on: July 04, 2004, 10:23:00 PM »
Guess they didnt wanna let their cash crop go..(kids)
  "Im sorryparent so and so, the state is closing us down for abusing your kids..but without our abuse they will DIE, omg!! So just  let us move them into our newly named program so we can keep abusing them for cash"

 What sick fucks left their kids in the program after it was shutdown for abuse??!!!
 If you guys parents did that you need to drive out and visit them and slap them in the fucking face..
 Then find a nursing home thats full of abuse allegations and check those fuckers in, one way baby, eat a dick mom and dad!!
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« Reply #11 on: July 05, 2004, 08:06:00 PM »
My parents for one did not know the program was being shut down because of abuse. The line spun to them was that higher-ups had embezzled money and double-charged medicare. Kathleen Cone acted bitter and hateful toward STRAIGHT Inc head office and gave the impression that she was glad to be free of them.
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« Reply #12 on: July 06, 2004, 03:17:00 AM »
whos Katherine Cone? Yes all of the straight heriarchy were horribly manipulative pain in the asses.
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« Reply #13 on: July 06, 2004, 07:07:00 AM »
Kathleen Cone was the Administrator of Atlanta STRAIGHT.
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« Reply #14 on: July 08, 2004, 12:24:00 PM »
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On 2004-06-30 15:26:00, Scarstruck wrote:

"Yep...But most of the Dallas kids actually got up and walked out..

 The whole group was misbehaving at this point..and I think a window was broken and they all just left..



 Theres one person that knows his story firsthand perhaps she will pop up and post it for you, I forget the details...


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Hey Brad!  Yeah, I did decide to pop in....

Heard a story about Dallas Straight when they closed the Las Colinas building....

Story was that everyone got up and just walked. And there was this misbehavior girl who walked too, and then as everyone was walking down the street, it occurred to her that she was conforming with everyone else. So she turned around and walked back to group and sat up in a blue chair and waited for staff to walk in. When staff finally did come through she started motivating. Since she was the only one who was working the program, they commenced her in a small ceremony with her parents. Thus she was the last person who commenced Dallas Straight.

I heard this story in 1992 and may have some of it wrong...

It does occur to me as well something about them breaking a window to all walk out.  Maybe was a riot type situation, I don't know.  There is an ex-staffer who was there at the time named Wes Kitchens.  Don't know where he is now, but he knows the story well.

I was working at a rehab in Carrolton called FirStep.  Wes was a staffer there and so was Heath Duncan.  The girl that was the last one to commence came to FirStep one day and assisted in one of my girls' raps that I was doing.  That's how I found out about it all.[ This Message was edited by: taureana on 2004-07-08 09:45 ]
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