Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > The Ridge Creek School / Hidden Lake Academy
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Anonymous:
Well, I'm glad he's going to be shedding some light on the situation, but he's dead wrong on the "concept" of HLA.
Anonymouse:
I graduated the program and all it did was waste 22 months of my life and get me further behind than ahead. I learned nothing. Ive been on restrictions for about 1/4 to 1/3 of my time there. Some staff are ok but if they want to keep there job they must bassically fill a quota of write ups. It makes no sense to send a kid there. Its just a huge waste of money.
Anonymous:
Maybe your situation was different or you just had sadistic counselor, but I can assure you that there is no "quota" for write ups. Most counselors would prefere not to put people on restrictions because it means more paper work for them. I will grant you, however, that some counselors lacked the common sense to know what was worth writing up and what should be let go or dealt with without a write up. Because they had no common sense they would write up everything.
Just clarifying what the reality probably was.
Anonymous:
You're trying to clarify reality through the eyes of an adult. The "reality" is much different in the eyes of a teenager who is going through normal ups and downs plus some - have that compounded by counselors who, for the most part, were incompetent and unskilled jumping down a teenager's throat everyday. Of course the situation is much worse in their view because they are living it.
Deborah:
There may not be a specific 'quota', but let's say it was noticed that a counselor consistently had few write ups. Would that be questioned?
My sons PGCs weren't necessarily sadistic, that I'm aware of, and I know he was on restrictions for most of the first 4 months he was there, and very frequently throughout. Often for minor things or because someone accused him of violating a rule.
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