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The Troubled Teen Industry / Escuela Caribe ~ New Horizons
« on: June 10, 2005, 01:31:00 AM »
So, everyone else is lying then, is that it? All the students (and the one who is writing the book), that's just fiction, uh? They just don't have anything better to do with their time, 15 some years later?
You aren't honestly suggesting that a visit, in the capacity of a visitor allows you the same perspective as being a child taken away from country, family, friends, etc...are you? I am married to a former student. I have seen FIRST HAND the horrific damage the program has done, how it has affected my husband, emotionally, physically, spiritually. It is devastating. I am infuriated by people such as yourself who speak so irresponsibly about something you obviously have extremely little knowledge of. Do you know what children need? Love. Compassion. Discipline. Structure. Empathy. None of this was apparent to my husband, who suffered for 21 months. Let me tell you one thing that my husband did gain from his experience. He knows how to be a loving, good father. How did he learn this? Certainly not from the program. It is because of the abuse he suffered at the hands of so-called "professionals" or "Christians," that he is more determined than ever to never allow our boys to be hurt in the horrific way he was. If you have such conviction about New Horizons, why don't you have the character to give your name?? :wstupid:
You aren't honestly suggesting that a visit, in the capacity of a visitor allows you the same perspective as being a child taken away from country, family, friends, etc...are you? I am married to a former student. I have seen FIRST HAND the horrific damage the program has done, how it has affected my husband, emotionally, physically, spiritually. It is devastating. I am infuriated by people such as yourself who speak so irresponsibly about something you obviously have extremely little knowledge of. Do you know what children need? Love. Compassion. Discipline. Structure. Empathy. None of this was apparent to my husband, who suffered for 21 months. Let me tell you one thing that my husband did gain from his experience. He knows how to be a loving, good father. How did he learn this? Certainly not from the program. It is because of the abuse he suffered at the hands of so-called "professionals" or "Christians," that he is more determined than ever to never allow our boys to be hurt in the horrific way he was. If you have such conviction about New Horizons, why don't you have the character to give your name?? :wstupid: