People who support the Sudweeks say "there was no abuse at Whitmore--one poster even said something to the effect, there were no broken bones, or blood all over, and even went so far as to imply parents should be happy our kids got "out Whitmore alive."
Many people may need to understand just what abuse is, and just what kinds of behaviors are JUST NOT OK.
IT is not OK for Cheryl Sudweeks to spit in a student's face--that is abuse!
It is not OK for Cheryl Sudweeks to curse a student, and call her sexual names like "slut, whore," or racial slurs like "nigger" or "sand nigger"--that is abuse.
It is not OK for either Sudweeks to inappropriately touch any student on any private part of their body; or to talk to them about sexually inappropriate things--that is abuse.
It is not OK for either Sudweeks to order one student to beat up another student--that is abuse.
It is not OK to force students to watch another student who is tied and gagged being beat by a group of students who were ordered to beat this boy by Cheryl Sudweeks--just being made to observe this event is abuse.
It is not OK to punish minor children by Cheryl Sudweeks refuses to let a child eat a regular meal, and forces this hungry child to watch the other kids eat--that is abuse.
It is not OK for Cheryl Sudweeks to physically punch, or slap, or hit a kid with any object--that is abuse.
These are just a few examples. And no bones were probably broken, and no one probably bled all over the place, and everyone lived through it---but it is and WAS ABUSE, and everyone needs to stop dancing around the issue, and say exactly what these people did to their child--- while they were suppose to be offering a quality education and professional therapy in what the person who referred us there, Sue Scheff of P.U.R.E. assured us were loving, Christian, caring owners, THE SUDWEEKS!