Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > The Ridge Creek School / Hidden Lake Academy
Liscensure Questions
SHH Anon Classics:
But what if it is the truth? Something that used to happen but now has been changed or been made better? Isn't that a good thing? Isn't that the goal? To make things better for future students?
abc123:
--- Quote ---On 2005-12-27 13:26:00, RobertBruce wrote:
"I appreciate your honesty on both issues.
As to the physical labor part, I dont have an issue with students being made to do landscaping or assorted work, I agree with you that it does instill a sense of pride. However when used in the punitive sense I feel it does almost no good, and since according to state regs for theraputic boarding schools, it is in fact illegal.
Ill hold off on any further discussion of that though until you get a chance to address that point.
I may have missed it but are you willing to state when you were at HLA?"
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Are there state regs for therapeutic boarding schools? Not rtc's, but tbs's. I am not aware of any. If there are I would love to see them. Where would I find them?
I am not willing to say when I was there. Too revealing. I am getting people dumping on me for the user name that took me five seconds to pick.
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RobertBruce:
Fair enough. There are indeed regs for theraputic boarding schools. I believe they have been posted on here several times. If not they can be found by contacting the ORS of GA.
abc123:
--- Quote ---On 2005-12-27 14:17:00, Anonymous wrote:
--- Quote ---On 2005-12-27 12:13:00, abc123 wrote:
I can only tell you what students are told now. Ironically, students are specifically told now that they CAN say that they don't like it here. What they are told they cannot do is be disrespectful or lie. For example, a student CAN say, "I am so pissed off at my counselor. He put me on restriction and I don't think he even cares about me." A student CANNOT say, "My fucking counselor is an asshole. He put on restrictions for bullshit and told me to piss off because he doesn't care what happens to me." Now, if a counselor actually said that to a student (which would be highly unlikely), the student has every right to go to an administrator and let them know what was going on and the administration would take care of it.
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The problem with this is that if the counselor DID tell the student to "piss off" because he really didn't care about the kid (I agree, highly unlikely) and the student tried to go to an administrator, the student would NEVER be believed.
It's always the counselor's word against the kid's. And the counselor is always right. No matter what the issue. And no matter what the kid tells the parent about the counselor or the school in general - the kid is lying. That's what the school gets parents to believe. I'm a parent. My kid was there for a long time. They had me believing everything he said was a lie. I'm learning now that HLA manipulates parent against child. Any and all trust between parent and child is destroyed.
My kid was NOT abused. I know that. He was there for a long time and thanks to some incrediby caring and talented people he is a healthy person today. He wasn't starved, hit, locked up, made to do manual labor for hours on end, physically or sexually abused. He's been home for quite a while so I know everything that went on - the good and the bad. I'm not getting on the "TBSs are abusive facilities that should all be shut down" bandwagon. But there is alot wrong with the place."
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In a sense you are right. There is a tendency to believe the staff over the student. I do disagree with you when you say that the student is never believed. What the families and kids, perhaps unfortunately, can never see is the behind the scences investigations and follow up that happens when any allegations are made. Staff are questioned and disciplined at times when there has been innapropriate behavior(which is rare). There have been times when staff have been suspended and even let go. Those situations have to be left behind closed doors, however, for legal reasons. Have there ever been times when something has happened and a student was not beleived? I'm sure there has been, and that is unfortunate. For the vast majority of the time, the staff at HLA are extremely professional and caring.
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Anonymous:
>>>Are there state regs for therapeutic boarding schools? Not rtc's, but tbs's. I am not aware of any. If there are I would love to see them. Where would I find them?
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