I just want to remind people about showing up at these seminars. There are a number of them going across the country. Please check this website to find the closest one near you.
http://www.parentsupportservices.com/se ... N=88387652You can get your message out in any way you'd like, it doesn't have to be full blown protest, if you've had little time to prepare. You can merely show up with some basic facts, and important information, that these parents deserve to have. Information that I am sure these seminars will not want to provide them with.
It doesn't matter if you are just one person, or fifty + people. What matters, is that you are being heard. How are these parents to know, unless we tell them what really happens at these places?
You can count on me to be at the one in San Jose, CA. it's only 2 hours from me. I used to live in Palo Alto so I have plenty of friends that I can stay with there. My style of approach is going to be cool, and calm. I am there to edjucate, and to get through to parents, not to be outta control, and scream in their face.
Now, if they were to kick me out of the hotel, and off the grounds, well then I do need to get loud. How else would I be heard??? Anyway, if there are people in the San Jose area that would like to show up, great! But, if you can't make it I understand. The only people who have no excuse are the people who live in the area who come on sites, such as this, and type away saying how awful it is, and then don't do shit about it. Those people irritate me!
I personally think the most important day to show up in San Jose, is 4-7 which is a Friday. We are all busy people, but this truely is the most important day for obvious reasons (1st day of seminar).