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katfish:
"Are we not better people for it??? did it teach us strength and skills for life, Are we not able to better handle what normally would be hard situations?? "

I don't feel like I am a better person for having gone to MMS- I certainly don't feel at all that MMS taught me anything about strength and skills I need for life- in fact, I feel that I wasn't at all given tools to succeed- I acquired those much later and on my own and am still acquiring them.  Especially in terms of education, MMS did me a great diservice.  
I was not able to deal with situations at all when I left MMS.  I was so confused, a real mess when I realized that I had not learned really anything about how to handle life.  I learned at MMS to do lots of physical activity and cower down to what MMS dicatated was the right way to do things and also how to feel anxious over really stupid things like not doing thing the right way, their way.
my 2 cents

Anonymous:
Okay Kat.....maybe its just time you own the fact that you were a, (excuse the language,) shit before MMS....a shit at mms and .............
you were given a opportunity to chnange your life and become a much better person, take tools that were shown and given to you and make a change within yourself. If you didn't learn what was taught how is that MMS's fault??Why is there fault you walked away with nothing????
Why is it that out of ALLLLL the girls that went to MMS you are the loudest?? you claim to be have been "ABUSED" yet you have not been specific and have yet to explain your experience at mms.
MMS was harder when you left...I remember what it was like when you were there.
Just own your own actions and responisbilites and relax....it is what 14 years now since youve been at the school??? I still remember the day at mms when the staff had planned something for us and did we do the afternoon activity?? No, why??, cause ALL 5 FOUNDING members were on the phone with  YOU.
Every founding staff at that time did exactly what they asked the girls to do...skies...bike rides,...hikes. They ALL went with us. Im just saying they didn't expect more from us that they didn't require themselves to do.
I see it this way....its been 10-14 years since some of the old timers have been there.
MOVE ON!!! BEEN THERE, DONE THAT..GET ON WITH YOUR LIFE AND GET A LIFE!!!!!!!
Thats my 2 cents

sunshine:
There is no need to get aggressive about this subject, anonymous. Just in case you havent read the hundreds  of other postings on this site, everyone has a different opinion about what happened while wewere there and we are all entitled to it. The fact remains that kat does not feel like mms is jsutified in the actions that they took in our therapy. it could have been more professional, less personal, less cussing, yelling and belittling, etc. All that shit bothered me, to be honest. And I relate to a lot of what Kat has said in lots of her posts. A lot of times i know she gets singled out for being a basher, but really she is strong, and she knows how to deal withthat type of criticism. As to the whole getting a life thing, we all have lives. Do you not have a life because you also sit here and post on this site your opinions? NO, so dont tell people that they need to get a life because they do not share your opinion. Your opinion is yours and it reflects how you have dealt with what happened there. Good for you, I am glad that you did a lot of growing there. However, many of us did not actually start growing until we actually left there and let the stigma of "having to go the mms way" behind.
All who doubted or denied would be lost. To live a moral and honest life -- to keep your contracts, to take care of wife and child -- to make a happy home -- to be a good citizen, a patriot, a just and thoughtful man, was simply a respectable way of going to hell.
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katfish:
woa, hostilities! Is that you, Betsy?  Say it ain't so! lol.  Dang, record time!

I think I'll just agree with lina oh so fina on this one.  Beyond Christians protesting against fags/dykes I don't think I've heard so much rage since...well, previous posts.

Also, don't anyone forget to sign the petition!

http://www.petitiononline.com/hr1738/petition.html

ps. this is my life, see above, among other things... I do want to, if I can, make a career out of making public harmful effects of such institutions, educating the public, getting places regulated, etc.  I don't want any other girl to have to go what I went through- not what YOU went through,  again, but me me me me me me.  Oh, and what a few others girls went through as well.

ma three cent.

Anonymous:
Everyone should consider signing the petition. I realize some people have downplayed its importance but none of us know the impact it might have on the people who will receive it. So I vote that everyone sign the petition today, because time is running out.

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