On 2004-10-26 15:39:00, Anonymous wrote:
"Yuo don't need to be a jerk anon, so you're french and a jerk. You got the meaning and you don'thave but maybe 30 people on your side.
So who is the moron? Dreamer!"
Actually, nobody was being a jerk until *you* started being one. Sure, I'm a dreamer. I also monitor this forum on behalf of an informal group of some size (I don't even know how many lurkers beyond the active participants) who all believe the industry needs serious reform. That includes a parent who did have to put her child in residential treatment, thought the quality of care was definitely problematical, and would like other parents to have better quality of care for *their* actively self-injurious children.
I weed through the garbage (like your program cheerleading) and pass on the actual bits of news, like closings, investigations, deaths, court cases, etc.
Fornits is actually the best forum I've found on the web for up-to-date comprehensive news on the industry as that news breaks.
Unfortunately, the thing that makes Fornits so good--that anyone can post anything--also means that most of the people interested in reforming the industry don't have time to weed through all the cruft for the tidbits of real news. So I do that for them.
But I can tell already that you're not going to believe in a groundswell of support for reform until you actually see improvements in Reform, Oversight, Safeguards, Enforcement, and Sunshine for yourself.
Maybe you should ask yourself why you're so dead set against improved quality of care for teen residential treatment?
Maybe people reading your postings should ask themselves the same question.
The axe *I* have to grind I've been completely open and upfront about.
What axe do *you* have to grind? And why haven't you been as forthcoming about it?
If I was just reading this thread instead of participating in it, I'd sure be asking myself those questions.
Timoclea