Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > The Ridge Creek School / Hidden Lake Academy
Controlling the Dialogue
Troll Control:
Sadly, once again the meaningful dialogue about HLA has been obfuscated by tangential discussion about Mrs. Gray, as is her intention. The more people spend wasteful time arguing with someone as uninformed and ignorant as Mrs. Gray, the more the truth about HLA gets buried.
Here are some facts about Mrs. Gray that will hopefully help others avoid trying to have meaningful dialogue with her:
1. She has no knowledge of how HLA's program is employed.
2. She has never worked in a therapeutic capacity at HLA or anywhere else.
3. She was married to an HLA employee and was a clerical staffer there as well.
4. She has never seen a "Realizations" group or seminar of any kind.
5. She has never been on a "wilderness" excursion.
6. She has never interacted with any clients on any level deeper than cursory conversation such as exchanging pleasantries or the like.
7. She puts on a dogmatic support of HLA even when proven wrong about particulars or generalities.
8. She has no education or training regarding TC's and all of the information she does have about HLA's treatment methods is second-hand or anecdotal.
9. She's capable only of ad hominem fallacies and never discusses debatable issues, as she lacks the cognitive horsepower and educational gravitas to do so.
Please, don't feed the trolls.
Anonymous:
Didn't your employment end at Hidden Lake Academy in 1995? If that is the case, what makes you anymore of an expert about the school than anyone else. The difference in the school now as opposed to then is amazing.
You are basing your opinions on out dated information.
Troll Control:
I generally don't state my opinion. I state facts. I talk about events that I have witnessed and have seen with my own eyes.
What's disturbing about your claim that the "school" is "amazing" now is that kids who have been there as recently as a few weeks ago corroborate everything I said was going on a decade ago. That speaks volumes. It says that HLA has indeed not changed the way it does business or runs its "program."
Unfortunately, for those who would say HLA has learned from its early mistakes and has corrected them, it clearly has not and continues to allegedly abuse children psychologically and sometimes physically, as was the case when I worked there. Even worse than what I witnessed there are the many accounts of sexual relations between staff and clients. This includes an executive staff who allegedly had sexual relations with a client, was fired for it and was subsequently quietly rehired and promoted after the child involved had left the program.
"The more things change, the more they stay the same." It's a shame because HLA certainly has the financial resources to treat their clients in accordance with accepted mental health practices, but they simply choose not to do that. I submit that the reason they behave this way is obvious: It's easier and they make more money.
If my "opinions" are "dated," please offer your explanation why children are currently being psychologically and physically abused at HLA. Please also explain why staff who have sexual relations with children are still working at HLA.
Thanks.
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"Compassion is the basis of morality."
-Arnold Schopenhauer[ This Message was edited by: Dysfunction Junction on 2006-01-26 15:11 ]
Anonymous:
Your facts then are based on the opinions of others. Surely you understand that there are former students who will agree with anything you say soley because they are angry about being sent to HLA in the first place. Be careful to differentiate between what you consider to be fact and what is obvious false rumor spreading by some angry former students.
RobertBruce:
And theres the rub.
How do you know they arent telling the truth about their experiences.
Your talking directly out of the parents handbook at HLA.
"Your child will tell many half truths and manipulations when placed at HLA. He/she is only doing so because they initially angry concerning their placement here, eventually they will accept it."
Isnt it possible that maybe some of the claims that students tell their parents, and some of the stories students tell when they get out has nothing to do with being angry about anything, but maybe just maybe has something to do with the fact that the events they are recalling did in fact really happen?
Isnt it just possible?
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