i was in pg57.
the claim that kids on restrictions are not outside for more than 1 1/2 hours is a blatant lie. On the weekends restrictions conventionally lasts from around 8:15 am to 10:00 pm.... thats way more than 1 1/2 hours.
My description of students avoiding restrictions in air conditioned classrooms eating candy- What im saying is if YOU ARE ON restriction, u can get out of about 1 1/2 hours of the work if u make urself "incomplete".
The sugar passing broke a "manipulation" rule, because i was "manipulating" the kitchen staff by taking sugar i didnt want and giving it to a friend....doesnt make much sense. anyhow- they soon got rid of the rule, which they never announced its presence in the first place.
Your contact with your parents is greatly skewed- when I first arrived at HLA, during winter - I was on restrictions for a straight 1 month duration- during this time my diet was horrible, and I lost many pounds: I chose to write about this in a letter and I was put on restrictions for manipulation. Basically all you can do in letters is talk about the good aspects of HLA and about how u have problems.
I was sent to HLA as a last-second resort because I was ditching school too much and approached the failing absence limit.
All information at HLA is skewed by staff/teachers/and students who are currently there willing to bend the truth to become members of such groups as "stars" "Student council" in which they get free off campus trips.
I won a mathematics competition for HLA, 1st place meet score, I was asked to write an article for the paper and to make a speech. The article i submitted was replaced by one written by a teacher- and I was told right before my speech exactly what I had to say to the student body.
edit: Annie hall, if your son was "perfect" he wouldnt of been there in the first place. "Perfect" is a word that has no meaning when it comes to teens. For your information I personally have had contact with 4/5's members of "STARS" (highest priviledge group based on how they work with the program) and most of them are doing drugs behind their parents backs, and lives are maybe even worse before HLA took part on them.
HLA is a school that will not only fail to fix your childrens problems, but will show them a world of loneliness, tyranny, hatred, and some of the worst youth's of america.
I was in a room for about 2 weeks and I was forced to participate in an action called "Speed dreams", I "had a choice" but in reality i didnt. I could tell on them, and then become a center of negative attention for the rest of my time there, adding more loneliness to my already shattered world. There is no way a human can go through such drama and live life in a perfect fashion.[ This Message was edited by: ap47 on 2006-03-03 11:05 ]
