Thank you Gina. I was there at that time also. You and I probably know some of the same people. My name is Tim Scrivener. Do you remember Russell White? Mike Moore? How about Janine Wright, or Laurie Sacket? Anyway, I appreciate your honesty.
I remember Janine very well, and I sort of remember Laurie, I never got to know any of the guys at all although the names are familiar. Honestly I just stayed focused on my goal and to that end I tried to follow the rules and I did almost two years of school work in a year in order to get out before my 18th birthday. That didn't leave a lot of time for anything else.
There is no reason to lie. No reason to make stuff up. What did go on was bad enough in some ways without dragging in stuff that never happened. I was a horrible teenager. I ran away and I didn't go to friends. I left the state with truckers and hitchhiked. Had my parents not found me and put me in Rebekah I would be dead now. I have no doubt in my mind. While Rebekah was not perfect and it had issues there are several things people are overlooking here.
One. Discipline in the 60's to 80's was radically different then it is now. (lets not get into the breakdown of society since a paddling became abuse that is another issue lol).
And two we are hearing from people who have problems and have a need to blame someone, anyone, other then themselves. I accept I was a horrible person, and I was not happy being locked up. However I think I would be much less happy if I were dead or in prison somewhere now. To blame my current problems on Rebekah totally would be not only ludicrous but unjustified. I was troubled before I went there. I wasn't put there to get a "fix" but to maybe clean up and learn some morals of which I was sadly lacking and it wasn't my parents fault either. They were good people and never abused me. It was all on me. If people will learn to accept their own problems and shortcomings, that is when they can start to heal and make peace with what they went threw.
I am sorry but I find blaming a school for your inability to come to terms with your own issues to be a way of ignoring the real problems. There come's a time in your life when you have to grow up and accept life on your own terms and forget what happened to you as a child. I don't buy into this whole "It's my parents,brother,sisters,societies,bullies,philosophy. I am not saying it doesn't impact your life. I am saying that as an adult you have the power to accept that ok, something bad happened but I am not that child/person now. And it's time to move on..
Sorry, didn't mean to get on a rant. Or to demean what anyone here feels. I'm sure it's very real. I just think that as adults it's time to accept your part in your life and move forward and stop living in the past. And making up stories might make you feel better, or powerful for a moment, but in the end it's helping no one especially not you.
Gina
ps. my email is
Ginlvm@aol.com if anyone remembers me and wants to catch up. be warned if all your emailing me for is to slam me for what I have said about the things said on here, I am not going to read it and i certainly am not going to respond to it. I've enough negative energy in my life without feeding trolls. So if you really want to chat then feel free to email but if your just being a troll that will get you ignored.
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