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Carlbrook
Anonymous:
Thanks for the good post, Carlbrook grad. Good luck at Bryn Mawr. My teen left Carlbrook a year before you and has been very successful even though he didn't finish the Carlbrook program.
Anonymous:
I am a graduate from Carlbrook School. This place gave me the second chance that I always needed. I may have not liked it a lot, I mean while you're there you don't really like it. But the friends I made there are eternal, and the lessons about life about respect about love about hope are just what any teenager needs to get through this world today. I have a future now because of Carlbrook. I have my family back and most importantly, I have myself back. I had lost love and respect for myself over the years and when I went to Carlbrook I realized that I deserve better than what I had been giving myself. You see, I have had a lot to deal with in my life, and I don't really want to go into the details, but if Carlbrook hadn't had been there to support me, I don't know where I would be today. Even NOW, I still have Carlbrook. I keep in touch with all of my close friends and staff members. If I need help with anything, I know that they will always be there to support me, NO MATTER what. The most amazing thing about Carlbrook is that there are so many teens there with so many issues and problems that they must deal with, but the school as a whole is just so welcoming. I mean, it doesn't matter what the hell is "wrong" with the kid, everyone is treated equally and with just as much love and compassion as the other. Its like no matter what has gone on in your past, its your past and you need to work through it because you've got a future to live and that future could change the world, even if its just a little. This school is based on integrity, yea, but it is also based on a strong foundation of friendship and love and hope, and if anyone says differently then they obviously have no clue what they are talking about and should just butt out of something that they don't even have first hand experiance with. I promise, this school has opened so many doors for me and helped me realize the potential I have. I hope you seriously consider Carlbrook. Its not only a beautiful campus but it is also a beautiful family. I still consider it my home away from home.
Anonymous:
Ok, so all of the grads are posting something on here because they care. Thank god, people care. When it comes down to it, its about love. Love of life, love of understanding, of peace, of people. Its simple...this is what I learned at Carlbrook, how to trust myself in a world full of people that dont want me to, in a world full of people that trust no one. How to love myself and love others. its simple. Some un-trusting person is probably reading these replies and thinking "God, these people are really under cover Carlbrook staff, trying to brainwash the world" This whole thing, is so human of us, to bash one of the things in this world that is tring to love and help. Because Carlbrook isnt normal, and people dont like the unfamiliar. So if you dont understand, you will never unless you attend Carlbrook yourself or let your son or daughter go there if they need it, hopefully they wont. This school is the definition of beauty and trust, forgivness and hope.
Ps...Likayou is a strong woman, not some brainwashed freak, she knows what she is talking about!
Anonymous:
I am an alumni, i graduated in December of 04. And i think that dude needs to shut the hell up, he has no idea what he is talking about. You cant really say things about carlbrook until you actually expierience it. :flame: i was sent to carlbrook for various things. From sneaking out, skipping school, i thought i was pregnant, i ran away, i always lied. I left with honor, and with a sense of direction. I was able to get comfortable enough to admit why and realize why i did certain things and acted in a certain way. My dad and i never really got along before i went to carlbrook and now he is like one of my best friends. i have the best friends i have ever had at that school, ones i will have forever. Some of them have written on here. ITs like one huge family, that just tries to take you back to a simpiler time and work your way back and figure out why you started to do some bad things. For example for me it was when my parents got divorced i started to feel like i was alone and not loved, so i started lashing out at my parents and not caring about much of anything and one thing led to another. Thats what carlbrook does it takes you through those steps and you work with your parents in straitening things out and so they can understand and they can work too. It was the best thing that ever happened to me. I think in a way every child should go through some of program like this. And that person who keeps commenting who doesnt knoew what they are talking about please stop i take offense to it.
Anonymous:
I think maybe the reason some people in this thread are getting bent out of shape about Carlbrook is because the dean of Carlbrook is Tim Brace, an old faculty alum from the CEDU schools.
It might have been mentioned in this thread already, though. I read through it and didn't see it, but I may have missed it.
Ultimately, it's about choosing the lesser of many evils, in some cases. Maybe it will take a few years for Carlbrook alum to come out and say "God I hated that school, it was totally screwed up.", since the school seems to be rather new, or maybe they won't come out at all, if the school is really ok.
Maybe Tim managed to take what little good there was out of the CEDU experience and apply it to another school, without all of the other abusive, humiliating crap that went along with it, who knows? I will say, some of the student testimonials I have read about Carlbrook do sound a little on the brainwashed side, but that doesn't worry me. It's nothing a little all night college partying and a few keggers and maybe some sticky, red bud won't fix, if the school is truly as mild as everyone from the place says it is.
As for the "no locks on the doors" argument, RMA and CEDU didn't have locks on their doors, either. They didn't need them. There are other ways to keep kids in line than by pure brute force, that can be just as dysfunctional.
I'm not saying Carlbook is guilty of any wrongdoing or not, because I didn't go there, and I've never been there. But my point is that the "no locks on doors" argument holds no water in my book.
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