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Wisdom Ranch School
Anonymous:
Jellybean, Who REFERRED you to Wisdom Ranch School? Have you checked out private schools in your own area? Why are you considering sending your child to a school away from home anyway? Have you considered all other alternatives available to you that would allow your child to remain in the home? Or perhaps have the child live with another relative? There may be other answers besides a 24-hour-a-day...7 days-a-week- YEAR LONG...live-in-program.
Troll Control:
This place looks like the typical scam. How can it be a "school" without even a SINGLE TEACHER on the staff?
What problems is your kid having? Any of the ones listed here?
Students with the following conditions are best served at a different facility.
* Severe Chronic depression
* Severe suicide risk
* Personality disorders
* Psychosis
* Antisocial personality disorder
* Multiple personality disorder
* Dissociative Disorder NOS
* Severe Self Mutilation
* Sex offenders
* Arsonists
* Excessive physical violence
Why exactly do yo uwant to send your kid there?
What it looks like to me is a big scam where people pay this guy to use their kids as free labor on a ranch.
It looks as if there are no classes, no teachers, no therapists (I could find no credentials for Mr. Monte except that he is an ex-marine and worked at some other programs).
They have other kids taking primary care of your kid ("student mentors") and seemingly no credentialed therapists or teachers.
Man, this website raises RED FLAGS all over the place. What's scarier than the stuff listed on the website is the stuff you'd expect to see, but don't ("clinical director," "psychologist," "doctor," "nurse," "teacher," etc.).
Here's a link to their "accreditation":
http://www2.boisestate.edu/nasc/directory.htm
Yet another "Specialty School." Not a high school, not a middle school, a "specialty school" (i.e. public school academic requirements don't apply). I'd also check with the state of Idaho dept of Ed to see if they are listed there as "specialty" as well.
I'd have some SERIOUS reservations about this place....
Anonymous:
AGAIN: the question--who REFERRED YOU TO THIS PLACE?
This question is asking: who wants to make money off of sending your kid to this place????
The person who referred you to this site gave you GOOOD SOUND ADVICE. I certainly hope you are reading, reading, reading.
Please do not send your son to some facility until you have given this some SERIOUS THOUGHT, and have researched this issue.
I made this mistake, and THOUGHT I was sending my child to a NICE BOARDING SCHOOL to owners that "just loved children," and I was assured that it offered therapy and a fully accredited educational school with certified teachers. That's what the referring company, P.U.R.E, and its owner, Sue Scheff told me. The owner of Whitmore Academy, Cheryl Sudweeks is now charged with criminally abusing 4 children and is facing a criminal trial.
BEWARE BEWARE BEWARE!!!!!!!
jellybean:
Nobody referred me to this school. I have done research on about 8 schools and I have a friend who has experience with Diamond Ranch. Nearly every school I have researched has come up with something scary except this one and I like the concept better than a facility that has steps and limited contact with parents, specific parent visit dates, only calls made that are monitored by staff, that don't encourage you to some see the place,etc. I have checked their accredidations through ID state and NW schools the BBB in idaho, spoken to the local chamber of commerce and the sheriff. They have given me ref's but I haven't called them yet. I chose not to use an education consultant. I am a healthcare consultant and am very used to having conversations with different types of businesses and can tell generally tell when I am being sold a used car. I understand that this is "big" business which is why I am trying to be so careful. Someone posted on here that the staff didn't have teaching credentials, but the bios on the website show those who are teaching have education and wildernes backgrounds. What site were you looking at? That's why I am asking because maybe someone else has another source of info that I can't find. I've done everything short of background checks on the staff member, which I may also do. I even checked recent loan history for the school. My son does not have any of the behavioral diagnoses listed in the post. He's struggling with self esteem issues and extreme peer pressure. He does much better when away from the pressures of his friends and specifically here in the city. I wish I had a good solid support system from family, but I don't and I am a single mother. As far as trying a facility close to home. I live in AZ and there is nothing here that I would get near. I read an article by someone named Sturdevant that was pretty positive. Anyone know who he is?
I give money for church organs in the hope the organ music will distract the congregation's attention from the rest of the service.
--Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist
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Anonymous:
NORTHWEST would certify a "school of fish" if this "school" of fish could write a check for $150 bucks....this means NOTHING!!!
Read about IVY RIDGE Academy if you want to know how NORTHWEST certifies "SCHOOLS"....The Attorney General of New York just settled with parents for $1 million for accreditation problems... would NOT GIVE A LOT of attention of NORTHWEST.
Lady: if the only problem you have with your son is "peer problems" and esteem problems--you need to be thanking your lucky stars, and patting yourself and your son on the back!!!!
DON'T Send this boy off to some wilderness program...treatment facility. BE A MOM and do your job!!!!
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