EMERCENCY ABOUT CHERYL

[Joyce Harris]

ANON:

You may have to "register" to send a Private Message. But you can register under an ANON NAME...like "Friend of a Student" or something like that.  You do not have to give your real name.  OK?

Thanks,
Joyce

[Anonymous]

Joyce I would love to speak with you but im afraid i dont have much else to say. Their parents are well aware and are actually sticking up for the school because when they visited during a parents weekend they found great results and the boy they used to have before the drama. I havent talked to the person since they went in and have been waiting for almost a year now. I wasnt exactly sure how to contact them or if i even could so i've been patiently waiting, and its a long time to wait for me! The person moved away previous to coming back and eventually going in and it was hard during that time for onlya few short months that i could not contact them. They are a dear friend of mine and i am deeply worried. I wrote a letter to the staff of the school, not expecting any great results asking them about the allegations and about how they can still be operating when they dont have a license and how they can claim on their website its a life enhancement school but they said they are out of the teen-help business? These owners seem to need help themselves. If you are trying to get teenagers out of a depressing period in their life they need both group and private therapy sessions, its just not possible to help them fully until you go over each thing in their life. Not only that but how can sending your child away seem ok to you, if you cant just check up at any given time my mother would never consider sending me away because she would of course want to make sure the facility is fully safe at ALL times. When i wrote the staff the letter, were you aware their building codes were out dated and they needed to update quite a few things, an unsafe building housing kids! well of course what are they going to do except use the kids to change the codes! They had the students build a brand new set of stairs something i suppose they said was "life enhancing" or some bs, to me thats child labor! This place the more i hear about it the more upsets me that someone i care so much about may be hurt. I know this person WELL better than any of their friends or parents, the only way he would not cry for help is if someone if threatening him or they are showing him no one cares, otherwise his voice is ALWAYS loud and clear... Ill go ahead and sign up shortly, i just hope more people read my response and truly think about what this school is doing

[Joyce Harris]

Miss ANON,
Of course your worries are valid.
We are adult parents, and we were "conned" and believed every thing IN THE BEGINNING too--and of course we did not know that the building was not UP TO CODE. We just made the assumption that it WAS. We did check to be certain that the therapist Tim Lowe was licensed through the State of Utah--but he resigned two weeks after we enrolled our daughter. We did not KNOW then that the Whitmore was only licensed as a BED AND BREAKFAST---AGAIN, we assumed the Sudweeks had the valid licensing required.
As parents, WE ALL made very supid "assumptions" and our children suffered terribly. Whitmore was not FULLY ACCREDITED, and there were no certified teachers--my daughter had no teachers, and fellow students graded a couple of book reports she did...and the only other "SCHOOL WORK" she did was some UNGRADED math worksheets. The so-called GROUP THERAPY was led by Cheryl Sudweeks--who does not even have a college degree, much less a degree in psychology. And my little girl was humiliated, and tormented in these group sessions by this woman!
Yes--these kids are worked, and worked hard by the Sudweeks. They may call it LIFE SKILLS, but you called it correctly--it is CHILD LABOR!
Did you get a response to your letter to the Sudweeks?
The Sudweeks monitor all incoming communications--so it is up to THEM if your friend is allowed contact with you or not. We did not KNOW that all our communications with our daughter was monitored. We NEVER agreed to that, either.
And it goes without saying that we never agreed to any type of phyical, emotional, mental, or sexual abuse...but it went on.
Luckily our daughter was only there 2 months. T
Do you think your friend would like to be in contact with you? If so there are ways to gain communication with him.

Joyce

[Anonymous]

Oh boy. If you wrote a letter to the staff, then your boyfriend is probably mad. Either Cheryl got mad at him big time. Or, they had a big group on him, and your name is mud, and he will probably never speak to you again! Cheryl will convince him you are evil, causing trouble in his new "family," and that he should avoid you forever. Not a good move, and his parents will tell him to stay far away from you too.

[Antigen]

Yeah, that's probably so. But, in the end, he'll eventually come around at least to the fact that he wants out. And he probably knows by now that you haven't abandoned him like they'd like to think. When he gets out, just don't take any of his weird responses personally. I get the sense that you already know better, so I'm not telling you anything you don't already know.

It'll pay off. You're a good friend. Sure wish I had had one like you way back when.

Patience.

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
--Denis Diderot, French encyclopedist

[Friend of Student]

I never said my name or my friends name, so hopefully they had no idea, I never even gave away any information in which they could use to figure out who i was friends with... I can tell my friend is miserable, in the pictures you can see it in their eyes... I hope they will talk to me when they get home, i know at first it will be odd but they know i care about them, a hell of a lot, im one of the few that ever did care and the only one that will stick around through anything... Im not sure what to think about Whitmore anymore, all i know is i dont want my friend back there, but i dont know how i can change their parents minds, they really believe it has helped their child become the child they used to be, and that in its self is not normal! a child grows up and does just that, grows up, they change thats part of life, somemay be for the positive some for the negative but through it all it makes them who they are... why change these kids all around, keep the good and get rid of the bad thats all that needs to be done, dont take everything away and turn them to dirt!!

[Anonymous]

Is your friend coming home for good this summer, or just for a family visit? If it is just for a short family visit--then you need to talk to him alone to try and find out what HE thinks about Whitmore himself. He he doesn't want to go back-then he may need the help of another adult to help convince his parents to let him stay at home.

[Anonymous]

It will be interesting to hear how the former students who went back for Parents Weekend react to Cheryl's sense of CONTROL after being away from Whitmore for awhile. Will these students just fall back into the being controlled mode, or will they be more resistent to her? Might be interesting to hear their reaction after being away from it 24/7.

[Anonymous]

It may be time for Cheryl to take all these kids back to Provo for a  movie outing!
She is about due for a raving maniac scene!
Been awhile has it Cheryl?

Soon  my  dear  Soon!!!!

[Anonymous]

I think if the kids come back and stick to what they have "learned" at whitmore, they will get their ass kicked by all the people that they used to be friends with! Their friends will feel so betrayed n pissed... I mean if my friend comes back and really refuses to talk to me bc they were told not to, jesus christ! will i be fucking pissed! thats just gay! my friend just needed to go to a simple hospital where they could get help with their problems right then, they just needed to get some help not go off to some "school" to get an education, they could have gone to our local public school and get a MUCH better education rather then some bull shit placed in their head!!

[Anonymous]

Hope your friend comes home and just goes back to being friends with who he wants to be friends with.  Some of these WHITMORE KIDS don't do that and spend all their time on the phone to Cheryl, and their VACATION time going back to the Whitmore and the FAMILY,er cult....

[Friend of Student]

thats because the kids have no choice but to do that, they are groomed by these people that run this CULT to do all these things which normal society, wait just SOCIETY does not approve of, and they are not sure how to function in their daily lives so they must run back to them and help them bc they have no idea what to do otherwise!

[Anonymous]

Parents Weekend's over---oh my, the weather did not cooperate at all!!!
Big GROUP GROUP GROUP to relieve the stress?
Poor poor kids, the Gorillia is loose now!

[Anonymous]

Hey Cheryl, everyones really tired of the boo-hoo pitiful telephone question: "ARE YOU AGAINST US?"  GET OFF THE PHONE, LADY!

[Anonymous]

I think the fact that you wont say whou you are says more about you than cheryl.  I believe cheryl wants to help all of these teens and they want to keep there same behaviors so they try to make her like evil.  Who else has ever tried to help these kids mary gentile