On 2005-03-16 16:55:00, Anonymous wrote:
I am able to talk with students on all levels of behavior, without staff present,
The same could be said of battered women, even when their abuser is not standing right over them. And it's for a lot of the same reasons, too. It's amazing the power you can gain over someone simply by demoralizing them. But it's been studied and documented. It works, at least temporarily, about 90% of the time.
When I was close to graduating from Straight, you would have thought I was just about the happiest, most grateful kid you'd ever seen. If my own father took me aside and told me he'd take me out of there right now, I would have thought it was a trick. Later, of course, Straight, Inc. became infamous. But, at the time, there were a LOT of people like you who thought everything was just peachy there. There were sort of unwritten rules about how to behave around certain people. This included the "Dr." whatever executive staff who they hired for their titles. Nobody wants to risk getting set back, having to stay longer and losing "priviledges" like adequate access to a toilet.
Of course, the power of denial is amazing. People go around thinking they see everything clearly and understand just about everything that goes on around them. But, in reality, we see what we're willing to see.
including parents and some staff.
Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself
--Jimmy Carter
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Straight South (Sarasota, FL)
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Anonymity AnonymousSome days, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps.
