Anyone on these sites from the East Coast?

[Anonymous]

I am. Don't know if I'm ready to have a coffee klatch right this second as there is a lot going on in my life.  But I sincerely hope to meet any of you guys on the site for a coffee and whatever.

How many of you styed in touch w/friends and staff at CEDU?  What are their thoughts on CEDU?

Well let me know.  -Shan

[Son Of Serbia]

i'm from chicago.

[Anonymous]

I've heard about a bunch of miserable results. Many people commiting suicide including one staff member. Who knows how many others?

[face_in_a_case]

im out here in nyc

[Anonymous]

To the one in NYC--

Which cedu did you go to? I went to CEDU-RS.  When did you go? I was there in late eighties.

I'm near Philly.

[face_in_a_case]

I was sent to RMA in 1994 then transferred to BCA about 6 months later.  I graduated the "program."

I am actually from Los Angeles, but they wanted to send me far away just enough.  I've ran into people who've been through the CEDU system back there...one ran straight into the Hare Krishna's.

I.m glad there are survivors out here on the east coast...very few people understand and it gets exhausting delving into all the minute details--which are just important.  My analyst, I think, is horrified.  I've been working with this person for almost year and I've just started to touch the beast.

[Anonymous]

IM from philly here, you can Instant message me at jmg532 if you want

[Anonymous]

im from philly too...jmg you know who i am!!!

[Anonymous]

I'm from Massachusetts. I went to CEDU MS in the early 2000's. I haven't kept in touch at all, with anyone, and I'm doing fine.

[Anonymous]

I'm glad you are OK. How come you haven't kept in touch.When I split CEDU, I wasdesperate to talk to students who undertood everything I went through in that insulated, intense environment.  Civilians don't.

--shanlea

[Anonymous]

OK. Well we should arrange something; I went to CEDU-RS in 1987. When did you all go?  Did you guys in Philly live in center city or in the 'burbs?  

To Mass--I lived in Brookline and the North End for awhile. LOVED IT. still kicking myself. what are you doing out there?

NY--love it there. I took my 4 year old there to visit my friend during the December blizzard and he had a ball.  His favorite restaurant is MARS.

Right now things are tough here, but I would love to set up a coffee meet or whatever on the east in the Fall sometime.

[mad]

My name is Mark, I live in Boston and went to RMA from 91-93. I'd welcome meeting Cedu/RMA folks who are out my way.

Best, M

[Anonymous]

"I'm glad you are OK. How come you haven't kept in touch.When I split CEDU, I wasdesperate to talk to students who undertood everything I went through in that insulated, intense environment. Civilians don't.

--shanlea"

Because I didn't need to. I went to Cedu for false reasons in the first place, so it was was a combination of reasons... to prove to myself and Cedu that I didn't need them, when I went there or now. Also, I have plenty of friends, do well in school, wrestle, maybe play football this year... And I'm living with the parent that DIDN'T send me to Cedu (I went to CMS when I was 12, under the guise that I did poorly in school and was unresponsive to adults.

A) Show me a middle schooler that DOESN'T slack in school and test their boundaries and I'll be incredibly surprised.

B) The file he (my father) sent said I "was on a course of drugs, jail time, and probable death". I was 12 fricking years old.

C) I was 12 fricking years old. Maybe if I was older, but to send me to brainwashing strangers who desperately attempted to ruin any chance I had at athletic or scholastic success? Thank God they failed in that attempt.

D) My father REALLY sent me there so his girlfriend could move in, who I disaproved of immensely. Last year, I guess, she left him and she is a cocaine addict and he is on speed. And I needed intervention?!?!)

So that about does it. Despite what Cedu and every other psychiatric facility says, pretending it never happened is good for me right now. Who knows, maybe I'll have to go to therapy when I'm older because of what that inhuman "school" did to me, and others, but I'm pretty happy and well-adjusted now, so why bring it up? I beat their system. That's the biggest gratification I can receive regarding Cedu.

[Anonymous]

It really blows my mind that you were sent to CEDU at age 12 for such bogus reasons.  AGE FRICKIN' 12!!!! They should have turned you down.  Did you actually stay for the duration?

Well, I'm glad you are enjoying life now.  I would be really pissed at your Dad, especially since he is on speed. How do you learn to forgive him?

[Anonymous]

Yes, I stayed, and "graduated". They really kind of realized that I didn't have any problems, at least none that such an intense "program" calls for, and aside from the regular bs I was pratically ignored. Some may say forsaking Ascent, full times, etc. was a boon of hope, but remember I was one of the few well adjusted kids... I had to deal with the kids who went to Ascent, full times. Plus, just staying there for 2 years is awful enough. Towards the end (last two monthes), they realized that I hadn't been tortured to the full extent and was put on a full time. I could speak to no one, run everywhere (it has not been mentioned yet that I was 205 pounds upon entering Cedu, quite rotund, and was emasciated to 90 pounds in the course of 7 monthes. I made my way to 110 towards the end, but malnutrition and dehydration were two very large factors in the abuse of children that we don't talk about here enough), work all day, etc. The friends who weren't either insane children or rule obsessed, brainwashed freaks kept me sane and I could not speak to them. There's Cedu for you. As for my father, he lives in Florida and has colon cancer. He will die within the year, and that's a whole other ball of wax.