Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > The Ridge Creek School / Hidden Lake Academy
STUDENTS/STAFF from Hidden Lake Fucked up school
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--- Quote ---On 2005-11-15 09:00:00, SHH Anon Classics wrote:
"Quite a few times you have said posts were mine when they weren't. I would guess only about 15 % of them are actually mine."
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...and the rest were my multiple personalities.
Troll Control:
--- Quote ---On 2005-11-15 09:45:00, SHH Anon Classics wrote:
"Most of my posts I made it pretty damn clear who I was."
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--- Quote ---"I just wanted to point out that a lot of posts you think are mine, are not, to point out your ignorance..."
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::soapbox::
Too funny.
Ursus:
The following post is originally from 2 pages or so back in this thread, on Thu Nov 17 2005. The portion relevant to my post is towards the end of it (highlighted in red).
--- Quote from: "SHH Anon Classics" ---I have to go to work shortly but let me see if I can answer some of your twists to my statements and your questions in a few minutes.
1) It is very easy to look up staff credentials. Go to their website and click on STAFF. It lists their degrees, etc.
2) You do assume way more than you know Robert. first of all I never slept around with a vagrant and Bill didnt divorce me or kick me out. It was a mutual decision by the two of us. Why we got divorced is none of your business but you can be assured that it was for none of your sick reasons.
3) I only stated what I found on websites about licensing and accrediation because everybody keeps on going on and on about how HLA is unlicensed and in fact its not even a requirement that they be licensed. So who do you fault there? The state of Georgia? Maybe thats where you need to petition the state reps. to change their requirements. And the slur against Georgia whoever posted that was ridiculous. Guess they arent familiar with the state.
4) I know for a fact that Dysfunction is full of shit about what I look like because he described me in a previous post awhile back totally inaccurately. He described me as mexican looking and ugly and overweight when in fact I am very fair skinned, with green eyes and look more italian than anything else. I am not mexican either. And I am not overweight and wasnt overweight then either. So, again, Steve is full of shit.
5) My intelligence has been thrown into this mess more than once. When have I ever talked about your intelligence or looks or morals Robert? Low blow, but considering the source, certainly not surprising.
6) Again, I have spoken to an attorney (NOT Marty) I told you I havent talked to him in 5 years. You don't have a case at all Robert. What I posted is not illegal, and was not obtained from any file. It came from my memory because I always remember people I meet who have my son's name. Its not a common name. There was also a girl named Devon that I met a few times. Whether or not the other kid named Devon remembers me or not is a moot point. My memory is not a confidential file either so a judge would laugh like hell at your presumption of what you just stated.
7) Yes I did progress reports and report cards, and I copied and mailed them. However, at that point I gave them to another lady in the office, I believe maybe it could have been Anne Strader, and she or another person put them in the main files. I did not have access to them to get any personal information. And I only did that for 10 months, and not during the time that kid Devon was at the school. I met him after I quit working parttime there.
:cool: And one more thing before I have to log off. Dr. Buccellato didn't need this school to make money from . He was doing just fine with his other school and private practice and the other businesses and things he was involved with. He did this because he felt he could better serve kids instead of sending them off to other schools. He designed a school that is part wilderness, (or was until Ridge Creek), part boarding school and part therapeutic. This particular school was designed with different purposes so to call it one thing or another exclusively is kind of difficult. You assume the man is without any morals and since I knew him for over 7 years, and you only knew him for a few months or a year or so, I do believe I know the man a little better than you.
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Was this Anne Strader perchance married to a Mike Strader, who worked as a "wilderness counselor" at HLA around that time?
I came across the following brief bio for Mike on (CEDU-offshoot) Shortridge Academy's site:
--- Quote ---MIKE STRADER, Counselor
As a graduate of Rocky Mountain Academy himself, Mike pursued a career in mentoring and counseling youth. He brings nine years of experience in therapeutic education, beginning with his counseling experience as a Wilderness Counselor at Hidden Lake Academy in Georgia. Mike enhanced his career by becoming a Program Mentor and advancing to the level of Assistant Phase Leader for the lower school phase at Mount Bachelor Academy (MBA) in Oregon. In his last three years at MBA, he served in a role equivalent to Dean of Students as he led special projects, supported all phases and counselors, and facilitated emotional growth workshops. In recognition for his leadership, commitment, and work ethic, he was honored with the Dedication Award. He further developed his skills with youth by working with law enforcement as a Community Service Police Officer in San Bruno, CA. In his spare time, Mike is pursuing certification as an Emergency Medical Technician. Mike is also the coach of Shortridge Academy’s traveling soccer team.
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Anonymous:
"... the 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: The growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy." -Alex Carey
"The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations." -Noam Chomsky
The themes that have been prominent in our lives over the past two decades, and even more so those that have surfaced as a result of the Bush Administration; have been more amplified in our every day lives, social discourse and the media due to the importance and truly historical nature of the upcoming presidential elections. Of course, the fact that the economy is teetering on the edge of collapse and the horrendous foreign policies in themselves have been important, with or without the elections. So as i've recently dug deeper and researched many of these issues, many of them reminded me of HLA.
I think programs like HLA probably owe a lot of gratitude to President Clinton's policies and transformations that gave rise to Capitalism on this huge scale. The aftermath of these policies has been corruption on a wide scale, that has affected everything from schools, law enforcement, corporations and government (since corporations and special interests are in affect the ones pulling the strings. HLA is no exception. It's quite obvious that we're all thought of as consumers and objects to these big companies, as that was kind of the point. The idea behind it is to give people the freedom (really still in a very limited way) to live as they please and choose products as we want. And of course parents are sold this horrible idea of these boarding schools like HLA, and give their child's liberties and rights up in the process.
After September 11th, Bush passed The Patriot Act only because it was expected of them so that Bush would have powers to "protect our national security" and be able to react with military response to the terrorist attacks. The Patriot Act is almost 400 pages long and Congress was given about 5 hours to read it; so naturally it was never read before passed. (If you don't know what the Patriot Act is you should probably check that out due to it's complete disregard of the constitution and erodes our freedom and basic rights). Now enter the bill 1959: Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act. This basically builds upon the Patriot Act, but now any U.S. citizen can be named a terrorist by these standards, just for disagreeing with the government and expressing free speech. Basically it suspends the law and they can perform wiretaps, raid your home, detain you and place you in prison without a trial or any evidence whatsoever. The president can also declare Martial Law. Troops and law enforcement have been practicing this for quite some time, actually. A good book on this that is good for the average reader on the subject is “The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot” by Naomi Wolf. There has already been imprisonment of our own citizens with no evidence, who have been taken to places like Guantanamo Bay and subjected to inhumane treatment and interrogation methods.
These are all somewhat reminiscent of the rules and lifestyle at HLA (of course the government level is quite more extreme in nature as it affects the entire country on such a grand scale, and Guantanamo is obviously by far worse). I think the parallels are quite interesting and surely alarming.
And although we're already not in a very good position due to the corruption and deception by the Bush administration, at least we're not all sitting around still arguing whether or not what they've done is wrong. We all know it, it's undeniable to anyone with any type of intelligence and/or decency whatsoever. It's also obvious that what HLA has done is completely wrong and inexcusable and there should be no reason for people to still be arguing about whether or not it was oppressive, abusive, deceptive, and is corrupt should no longer be subject buying into the petty arguments with crazy immoral people who defend such a cause in these forums. I posted something here a whole ago about my experience at HLA and how horrible and absolutely illegal and how wrong I, as well as many others, were treated. If somehow these weird defenders of this Academy on the website are still in denial and would like me to share it, I'll be glad to.
One thing I didn't talk much about was the quality, of lack thereof, of the education at HLA. During an entire semester of algebra 2, we covered about 1 1/2 chapters (that's being rather generous), and went over the basics of factoring a few basic types of binomials and polynomials- using only one method (the one that's usually taught first- trial and error). If you think that is somehow good education or qualifies as an algebra 2 course in high school, then nobody should take you seriously. There was more material covered in the trigonometry course, but it still wasn't nearly up to par and definitely did not cover all of the required material. The biology class failed to even give mention to the most fundamental concept or part of biology- evolution. And of course, the material covered was no where near acceptable. And the most ridiculous part was without a doubt the world history class. There, we read from the Qur'an, were forced to learn arabic and given tests weekly on it, and watched a good amount of videos of muslims praying in other parts of the world. They weren't so much about the history of the religion as much as they were just showing the beliefs, lifestyle and rules. This was the main focus of this class. We brushed over some other things very quickly , but basically didn't spend a whole lot of time on everything else. We even made posters about the festival of Ramadan and all of the rules and pillars and what not. Of course learning about history of major monotheisms is important, in the context of history and how it affected different events and cultures. I think it was pretty inappropriate. Oh, and another thing about this religion problem is that on Sundays we often had a Rabbi come to talk to us, which was mandatory. Even restrictions got to join in on that. I respect your religion, but this is pretty unacceptable. A few times a native american came to talk about his spiritual/religious views, but it was usually the former who visited. Separation of church and state, anyone? But obviously that shouldn't apply to HLA, where freedom of speech, liberty, equality and many others of our most basic rights don't prevail.
Anonymous:
I want to add something to my post above... I'm really not against capitalism in general, there just needs to be some kind of balance and more ethics investigations on everything. For the government to set it up to give the people more freedom and then allow all of the unethical behavior to go unnoticed, it goes right back to being harmful for society. The fact that corporate lobbyists have so much power over government and policy is most certainly destructive.
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