14 Year old Dies at THAYER LEARNING CENTER

[Anonymous]

Folks, remember that this is Christmas vacation time, and the world seems swamped with 13yo's with a computer, no parents at home, way too much time, and way too little education to speak or write coherently.

If these Thayer plaudits (don't worry, our poster doesn't know the meaning of that word) are an example of Thayer's $4000-a-month education, then this "student" really is in for trouble in later life.

[Anonymous]

I'm not going to say what I think of the postings of  the girl who thinks she knows me.  It would be too cruel, even for someone who throws around the word "loser" as though she's actually qualified to pass judgement on other people's lives.

I wonder if Thayer taught her that arrogance, or she learned it at home?

In any case, chick, you don't know me.  You almost certainly have never even met me.  And on a public website that Willa Bundy certainly knows exists, nothing anyone who was actually at Thayer says about them exactly qualifies as "behind her back."

Grow up.

Timoclea

[Anonymous]

SO QUIT TALKING SHIT YALL ARE LITTLE FUC**** KIDS AND YALL REALLY NEED TO GROW UP AND GET A LIFE, YOU UNEDUCATED KIDS! :mad:

[Anonymous]

On 2004-12-22 14:00:00, Anonymous wrote:

"SO QUIT TALKING SHIT YALL ARE LITTLE FUC**** KIDS AND YALL REALLY NEED TO GROW UP AND GET A LIFE, YOU UNEDUCATED KIDS! :mad: "

This coming from a, what?....19 year old???  Honey, we've been where you are and THEN some!!!

[Anonymous]

On 2004-12-22 14:00:00, Anonymous wrote:

"SO QUIT TALKING SHIT YALL ARE LITTLE FUC**** KIDS AND YALL REALLY NEED TO GROW UP AND GET A LIFE, YOU UNEDUCATED KIDS! :mad: "

Wrong again, Shouter.  I'm 37, and a wife and mother, and I'm on here because I work all day at my computer and am working in another window.  And since I'm self-employed (successfully, I might add), I'm the boss.

I graduated with a bachelors degree and an above average GPA from a nationally ranked public university.  I was a database programmer for five years, and now I teach and write (and sell my stuff, which has sold well to the public).

The problem with the "life skills" you say Thayer taught you is that they apparently taught you that the way to win an argument is to shout the other guy down and swear and hurl insults.  Now, there's nothing especially wrong with a little colorful language, and typing in all caps is just rather unattractive.  I'm certainly not above telling people what I think of them now and then.

It would just be nice if in all that hot air you spout there was occasionally an actual *point*.

You *didn't* learn how to get along in life from Thayer, because you clearly still don't know how.  You *could* have presented your point in a way that was a *credit* to your position.  You haven't.  And I'd think that if you knew any better you'd be doing a better job.

So all I can conclude is you *don't* know any better.  

Since you're touting yourself as one of Thayer's success stories, that says that their high school English, History, and Civics classes are lousy---because you should have learned in those classes how to pick a position on some topic and write a couple of paragraphs supporting your position.

You clearly didn't learn how.

If *I* was paying several thousand dollars a month to send my child off to a private school, I'd want stronger academics than that for my money.

You'd probably do a better job if you'd calm down and try to stick to words with a number of letters other than four.

Timoclea

[Anonymous]

By the way, if you really think the people you're talking to are children, what does it say of your morals that you're swearing at them?

If my daughter said what you did, the way you said it, in public in front of and to other people's children, I'd turn her over my knee.

You kiss your mother with that mouth?

Timoclea

[Anonymous]

And another thing, Shouter (you've managed to hit my hot buttons)....

As a parent, I teach my child to respect her parents and respect authority *not* to give me some kind of selfish personal ego boost.

I teach my child to treat other people with dignity and respect because I want her to go out into *life* and have cultivated the deeply-ingrained *habit* of treating people that way---whether they have any power over her or not.

I think you're probably still a teenager, and some of the criticisms I could make about your not knowing how to disagree with someone and be angry, and unfriendly, but still be basically civil---some of those criticisms would be too harsh, so I won't do it.

Look, I have a thick skin, I couldn't care less what you say to me.

But for *yourself*----please learn how to be angry, unfriendly, stand up for your point, and still remain civil while doing it.  That's a vital skill for: marriage, dealing with family as a grown child, raising children, dealing with coworkers---you'll need it all your life.  Just as well to start learning it now as later.

Timoclea

[Anonymous]

Thats not my point lady!(or should i say ma'am? cause you know T.L.C thought me better than that!) i could care less what you thought of my poor choice of languge! i am not on here to argue with you, i am just trying to make a point, and my point being is that you have no idea what you are talking about! you have not sent your child to Thayer, right? ok well i am going to let you in on something ok, something that they taught me at Thayer. Dont believe everything you hear, and only half of what you see!you say your 30 something years old right? so why are you on this web site gossiping like a little teenager? i could really care less how you raise your kids, but dont sit over there and tell me "if that were my kid that said that you would ben them over your knee" lady i dont really care how you raise your kid but im going to tell you like this, MY MOMMA DIDNT RAISE A FOOL!! So please keep your partenting tips to your self! is that civil enough for you ma'am? :silly: but than again i dont care what you think! but thanks any way!

[Anonymous]

Hey by the way lady, My mom and i have a very good relationship! something that you will maybe not ever know abou cause your too busy on this web site to be spending time with your "wonderful kids!"

[Anonymous]

wow ok so i personally havent met you blair you graduated with sgt. morris right? well i came right after the graduation and i did very well there and was taken out for several reasons. i was there for the death of the boy but didnt know anything of it until i got home.  i was told by cadet williams that you were a pretty good jr. staff but strict and when you came to visit in september i was kinda scared to hear rumors of you coming back as a sgt lol. but the respect you're showing on here you didnt learn from thayer. i do feel like youve changed and i did enjoy my time there just as you did. i feel like it did change me for the better but i am confused on how the bundy's handled this situation with the boy. whats your email or sn id like to talk to people from thayer

[Anonymous]

if anyone knows sgt. gardener or heckinkamp id really like to speak with them.

[Anonymous]

Blair! email me at BHerrmann@cebridge.net

[Anonymous]

ex cadets IM me at nonesuch2890

-cadet chance rutherford

[Anonymous]

^^^start a new topic idiot instead of posting in every friggen thread

[Anonymous]

It actually takes me *very little* time to read and post on Fornits.  I have hypergraphia and I touchtype pretty fast, too. LOL

Most professional writers are hypergraphs.  Just the way it is.  One of the pluses to having to deal with all the other mental health stuff, I guess.

A lot of times when I'm writing, either on Fornits, elsewhere on the web, or actually putting out produtive words for pay, my daughter is curled up beside me doing schoolwork or reading.

You never really know what someone else's life is like from what you read on the internet.

And my point as that applies to Thayer is that, as with other places offering residential treatment, I don't necessarily want to shut them down.  I just want some regulatory oversight in place and standards in place.  I want it to ensure that kids accused of juvenile delinquency actually have the problems they're accused of having, seriously enough to require residential care.  I want children suffering from organic brain defects like brain damage or mental illness to get accurate diagnosis and proper treatment.

Personally, if I had my druthers I'd have every kid getting sent to one of these places given a SPECT scan, and the parents given a SPECT scan, so it would be clear exactly what problems the kid had and, from other scans later in the process, clear if "The Program" was improving things or making things worse.  And, of course, if the parents were the ones who were sick and dumping their problems on the kid, that would show up, too.

If you really needed residential treatment, I don't see any reason you should oppose that.  All it does is make it very clear what the problems are and whether the "treatment" is actually helping, or not.

If you're right, you have nothing to lose.

Timoclea