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kk:
Hi, My son is currently at Aspen Ranch.  Ask me whatever you want.  Ijust was there.  I think the Therapists are great and the Teachers are great too.
Yes, it is corporate run and the bottom line is money and I don't like that aspect of it, but the people there do care.  The things I don't like is that the babysitters, that's what I call them, mean well, but they are just not smart enough to understand the rules and make decsions that affect are children and these are the people who are deciding what level and what punishments should be handed out.  Thank goodness most of our kids are very smart and most of the parents are very concerned and at any given time there is a parent on the property.  I also don't like the fact that for all the money that we are paying the place is pretty broken done.  there great selling point the ropes course has been inoperable for 7 months.  The selling point that the kids can excellorate their schooling is void because they do not have access to computers or the library on the weekend.
I personally spoke to Matt Alexander about this situation and he pormised me this would change.  I also feel that they slap every kid with the lable of ODD.  My kid I feel did not have ODD and after I insisted on further testing which of course I had to pay 1300 extra for they now say that he may have an Autistic spectrum disorder and they may not be able to help him, only after 5 months of him being there.  All these things are aggravating but I do believe that the people there are trying to help.  The food is pretty crappy too, but I guess if you are selling drugs and go to jail it would be worse.  By the way my son was never doing drugs or in any trouble with the law he was very depressed and his grades took a nose dive and we thought he was suicidal.  He is doing better and he actually wants to remain in a boarding school just in one that is not as strict with levels.  After reading all of this I'm not comfportable with any boarding school and am hoping to convince him to come home, or just finish his Junior year at the Ranch and as soon as he is done we will pull him.  any questions? Feel free!

Anonymous:
So I have a question. WHat the hell is wrong with you? It's nice to know you love your kid so much that you send him away to a fucked up place instead of helping him. I would wish for boarding school too.
Parents who farm out their parenting responsibilities so they don't have to deal with it are weak and pathetic.

Anonymous:
KK--are you out of your frigging mind?
Your kid has been misdiagnosed. You don't trust the people who are in charge of "babysitting" your child because they don't understand the rules or the "punishment" to hand out. Did you send your kid there to be PUNISHED? You say the equipment is broken down. You complain about the education and no access to learning tools, and about the "crappy food."  NOW, you say you hope you can "convince your son to come home?" Are you NOT the parent? You need to wake up, and take control of this situation. Your son needs therapy (perhaps, perhaps not)...and he needs to be in a REAL SCHOOL for his education, and he certainly does not need some incompetent people dishing out punishment to him. Why don't you enroll YOURSELF there awhile?

kk:
My son tore up my pictures in my house becuse I took his T.v. out of his room, becuse he stopped doing his homework.  He also took one of my paintings and urinated on it.  He also broke my thumb fighting with me when I tried to keep him from desroying more of my pictures because I asked him to please get out of my room because he was watching T.V. in my room and I wanted to go to sleep.  Also, his I.Q. is Off the charts in some areas so he is very smart and manipulitive, and when his genuis 41 year uncle commited suicide I was afraid for his life.  He told me he was going to come in my room and slit me or his dads throat.  He did willingly go to the Ranch.  We drove him there, we did not have him kidnapped.  We stayed there with him.  And have been visiting him ever since.  He doesn't hate us for sending him there.  He likes his teachers and his therapist it's just the levels and the food and the babysitters that he doesn't like.  no one has hurt him, and he is to smart to let them mentally abuse him.  He never has been in R and R.  He doesn't want to come home just wants to switch boarding schools.  I'm afraid of putting from the frying pan into the fire.  Believe me I love my son more then anything and I spend more time e mailing him writing to him and researching things everyday that he is in there trying to figure out how to help him so he doesn't end up dead.  Don't judge me if I knew it would cure my son I would sign up for any wilderness camp.  I would give my life for his health, but that's not going to happen.

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--- Quote ---On 2005-12-05 11:17:00, kk wrote:

"Hi, My son is currently at Aspen Ranch.  Ask me whatever you want.  Ijust was there.  I think the Therapists are great and the Teachers are great too.

Yes, it is corporate run and the bottom line is money and I don't like that aspect of it, but the people there do care.  The things I don't like is that the babysitters, that's what I call them, mean well, but they are just not smart enough to understand the rules and make decsions that affect are children and these are the people who are deciding what level and what punishments should be handed out.  Thank goodness most of our kids are very smart and most of the parents are very concerned and at any given time there is a parent on the property.  I also don't like the fact that for all the money that we are paying the place is pretty broken done.  there great selling point the ropes course has been inoperable for 7 months.  The selling point that the kids can excellorate their schooling is void because they do not have access to computers or the library on the weekend.

I personally spoke to Matt Alexander about this situation and he pormised me this would change.  I also feel that they slap every kid with the lable of ODD.  My kid I feel did not have ODD and after I insisted on further testing which of course I had to pay 1300 extra for they now say that he may have an Autistic spectrum disorder and they may not be able to help him, only after 5 months of him being there.  All these things are aggravating but I do believe that the people there are trying to help.  The food is pretty crappy too, but I guess if you are selling drugs and go to jail it would be worse.  By the way my son was never doing drugs or in any trouble with the law he was very depressed and his grades took a nose dive and we thought he was suicidal.  He is doing better and he actually wants to remain in a boarding school just in one that is not as strict with levels.  After reading all of this I'm not comfportable with any boarding school and am hoping to convince him to come home, or just finish his Junior year at the Ranch and as soon as he is done we will pull him.  any questions? Feel free!"

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Wow.  I read this, and by the end I was thinking "There must be some mistake.  The story didn't end with 'and because of all of the red flags of abuse/neglect/fraud I listed before, I've taken my son home and am suing Aspen for fraud and breech of contract.'"  Are you nuts or what?

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