The truth about Darrington Academy

[Anonymous]

Nobody* but a Program Drone says "my experience of."

Your expeirence must be limited.  I am not a program parent, kid, or have anything to do with programs.  I came here looking for religious view points and stuck around 'cause it's like a soap opera, addictive.  But I often use the phrase in my experience.

[Anonymous]

On 2005-05-08 09:58:00, Anonymous wrote:

"Nobody* but a Program Drone says "my experience of."



Your expeirence must be limited.  I am not a program parent, kid, or have anything to do with programs.  I came here looking for religious view points and stuck around 'cause it's like a soap opera, addictive.  But I often use the phrase in my experience."

Lots of people use "in my experience."

Virtually *nobody* but program drones uses the phrase "my experience of."

We've had people post before who were the made-up alter-egos of program drones, trying to advocate for their program or system, so while I may be wrong, I simply don't believe you.

I've said up front who *I* am and why I'm interested in this issue---all over the site, basically.

Now, you can be anonymous if you want.  But the downside of anonymity is that when you say you're *not* making up who you are, and you look like you *are*---well, you may not be believed.

Them's the breaks.

You can tell a lot about someone from how they write, and the words they choose, and how those words interact with the positions they take.

You walk like a duck and talk like a duck, so I just don't buy your allegation that you're really a fish.  You have *some* sort of agenda wrt this industry.  Everyone here does.  You've advocated a program in rather glowing terms.  You use program jargon.  Maybe you *did* just pick up some habits of speech from your neighbor, but not likely.

Timoclea

[Anonymous]

On 2005-05-07 08:23:00, Anonymous wrote:

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On 2005-05-07 08:21:00, Anonymous wrote:


"They do monitor these sights, and if they find any of their happy parents on here, they will receive a phone call warning them. That is a proven fact."

That is nuts! Sounds like WWASP for sure. Out of curiosity, what could they do, what do they threaten them with? "

[Anonymous]

On 2005-05-07 08:23:00, Anonymous wrote:


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On 2005-05-07 08:21:00, Anonymous wrote:

"They do monitor these sights, and if they find any of their happy parents on here, they will receive a phone call warning them. That is a proven fact."

That is nuts! Sounds like WWASP for sure. Out of curiosity, what could they do, what do they threaten them with? "

There is a post from a man around page 2; After he posted this message on here, he recieved a phone call that very night from the administrators at Darrington or whereever.  I am not sure exactly what they said to him personally, but he did pull his child out.  This information is from a VERY reliable source, although it is not my place to disclose who that was.  I do know that parents who "talk" get threatend with having their kids expelled, and if you read the contract, whether you pull your child or they expell them, you still have to pay.  Not the same amount that you would have should the child have stayed, but still a good chunk.  Once again, it all boils down to the money.  I really couldn't tell you what else they might do, but I wouldn't be surprised if it had to do with money.  Maybe someone else knows more details.

[Anonymous]

I don't know what I did up there oooooppps!!  :eek:

[Anonymous]

all I hear is some person who keeps throwing around what a hot shot professional writer he/she is but is NEVER open to hear what other people think and feel...to be so smart you are really stupid and self absorbed in your own opinion...I was being a smart ass with my expierence of because you practically castrated someone for using that phrase in an earlier post...and if you want to see the school call them yourself...I OWE YOU NOTHING...and I will waste my time no more at this site with closed minded people like you who think they are ALWAYS right...go talk to yourself in the mirror...at least then you will have some one to listen to all the garbage you are putting out about things you know NOTHING about....last post...over and out!!!!

[Anonymous]

I believe some touched a nerve :lol:

[Anonymous]

^someone

[Antigen]

On 2005-05-05 10:50:00, Anonymous wrote:

"I can't help but wonder of all of you that are against this place...have any of you actually been there...talked with any of the staff...or checked with the county to see if any reports have been made??  I just wonder how much you really know about this place since you all have such strong opinions."

Why would you have to wonder about that? Several people posting here have stated outright that they sent their kids to you. You even intimate that you know something about one of them. How dense can you be?

He that will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not, is a slave.
--William Drummond (1585-1640)

[Timoclea]

Temper, temper.  Tsk tsk.

Nobody owes me jack squat, program drone.  You're just in a snit because you didn't expect anyone to be willing or able to call your bluff.

And I ended up the person calling that bluff just because I happen to be more or less local to Darrington, that's all.

And you've exposed yourself again.  If you know *soooo* much more about the program than me or anyone else here--enough to say I know "NOTHING ABOUT" it, then you aren't just a "neighbor" who just happened to drive a program mom up for a "visit."

Drone.

Timoclea
(Oh, and yeah, you're right---I brag all the time.  I'm sure everyone here can tell you how every other word I say on everything is talking about my  job and how I've done with it.  Yep, all the time A-number-one braggart, you've sure got me pegged.  :lol:)

The bible teaches that woman brought sin and death into the world, that she precipitated the fall of the race, that she was arraigned before the judgment seat of Heaven, tried, condemned and sentenced. Marriage for her was to be a condition of bondage, maternity a period of suffering and anguish, and in silence and subjection, she was to play the role of a dependent on man's bounty for all her material wants, and for all the information she might desire...Here is the Bible position of woman briefly summed up.
--Elizabeth Cady-Stanton

[ This Message was edited by: Timoclea on 2005-05-10 06:31 ]

[Timoclea]

You know what I think you are?

I think you're a program parent who, at the time you posted it, really believed any of us could (but that none of us would) go up to Darrington and see what you believed you saw.

But whenever you're being "had" there's this little tiny awareness in the back of your head that knows you're being foolish, only you almost never listen to it because you're so afraid of whatever disaster the cult has convinced you is going to happen to you if you leave.  (My parents' religion wasn't quite a cult, but it had enough of the features that I can relate.)

And so you decided to make what you said sound better by pretending to be just a "neighbor"--maybe you did drive up a neighbor who's also a program parent, too.

Then when I started talking cameras and tape recorders and articles and made it sound as "real" as possible (and I would have gone and done it if you'd set it up--it was a bona fide offer but would have been a real pain in the ass), that little awareness in the back of your head started your adrenaline pumping a bit and came farther forward in your head as you thought twice and realized that maybe Darrington really didn't want that done.

And then you had to back down by either going away silently or saying something, and you had to *almost* face that part of you really knew that they weren't nearly as open as you'd already publicly claimed, and another part of you felt guilty for bending the truth about your relationship to the program but still full of righteous indignation because most of you believes what you're saying----and because you were embarrassed and the choice was either admit what you (on some level) already know or get mad at me, you lashed out at me.  And retreated with bad grace.

I might be wrong about some of the details, because at this point I'm building speculation on top of speculation, but I think I've probably mostly got the picture right.

You understated your connection to the Program (this program or *some* program), and you were embarrassed to be caught at it, and some part of you realized that there was no way in hell Darrington would want a critic up there with a camera and a tape recorder who was okay enough at putting what they saw into words that it might actually end up in print somewhere.

I reached that little voice of reality in the back of your head that you're so desperately ignoring, and it pissed you off.

You *could* just quit ignoring it.

Timoclea

History gives us a kind of chart, and we dare not surrender even a small rushlight in the darkness. The hasty reformer who does not remember the past will find himself condemned to repeat it.
--John Buchan

[Anonymous]

Timoclea
Have you ever talked to anyone at DA? Are you willing to post a solution for parents that have legitimately tried to assist their child?  If you have the answers post them, so people don?t have to send their children to these schools.  I know this isn?t going to stop you from posting negative ideas, although foul the language you spew and the incoherence in your writing, help everyone understand your level of reasoning.

[Antigen]

Love them. Support them. Hope for the best. But don't resort to coercion. The end doesn't justify the means. And, in the case of a teen gulag, the ends are quite often worse than any problem you set out to strong arm into compliance.

Be a paernt, is what I'm trying to get accross to you. You can't pay anybody to do that for you, no matter how much they charge or how pretty the words and images they use to get your money.

The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system.
--Thomas Paine, American revolutionary

[Anonymous]

So you are saying let them rage.  When I say give us a solution, I meant a real solution.  Here are a few:  Teach them young to have work ethic.  Teach them young to be God fearing people.  Spend time with them, and communicate with them.  ...And you do all this, but they still continue to create legal and emotional nightmares for you, then... I doubt you have ever been there, but if so what then...?  Lets be realistic, and recognize there are times when intervention is necessary.  If you can understand this and understand there are families with these resources, then we must try to save our children from themselves.

[Anonymous]

So you are saying let them rage.  When I say give us a solution, I meant a real solution.  Here are a few:  Teach them young to have work ethic.  Teach them young to be God fearing people.  Spend time with them, and communicate with them.  ...And you do all this, but they still continue to create legal and emotional nightmares for you, then... I doubt you have ever been there, but if so what then...?  Lets be realistic, and recognize there are times when intervention is necessary.  If you can understand this and understand there are families without a brother or sister to help, then we must try to save our children from themselves.