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Antigen:
pages bearing her phone number

From Lon's site, "FRANCES, DORE - Educational Consultant
Dore has agreed to help CEDU parents, at reduced rates, during this crisis.
866-833-6911"

CEDU closing was a crisis?!

Anybody else have dealings w/ this woman?
For more than a hundred years much complaint has been made of the unmethodical way in which schools are conducted...with what result?  Schools remain exactly as they were.
--Comenius,1632
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Anonymous:

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CEDU closing was a crisis?!



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Actually, yes, in that it left a bunch of kids and their parents "scrambling" on very short notice to pack, move, and find new arrangements for education and any other needed help.  And, courses stopped only partly completed.  You may not have liked CEDU, and there were some things less than they might have been (and others more), but the point was the closing was (or created) a crisis, not whether or not it should have closed but the suddenness of same.

Antigen:
Well, Dore, you're operating from the faulty premis that the kids were getting therapy and education at CEDU. Home was probably the best "other arrangement" possible for most, if not all, of those kids. I hope a good many of them made it there, too.  
When I started as a federal narcotics agent, the budget that we were working with, it was less than $5 million a year, and there was only 125 agents for the entire world to work the narcotic trade that we were fighting in those days.  Times have changed.  The gluttony has grown.
--Nick Navarro, former Broward, FL Sherrif
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Anonymous:
The above comment was not from me.  

I always identify myself.

Dore E. Frances

Child Right's Advocate, Educational Consultant,
Family Coach, Mediator

 :wink:

Deborah:
Frances reviews Maia's book:

Reviewer: Dore Frances "defrances" (Bend, Oregon) - See all my reviews
     
This book was a long read for me personally. It was brutal.

In my opinion, unless you are the parent of a teen who needs intervention and yuo have tried all local resources with no results, unless you have had to sit down with yourself and make that gut-wrenching decision that leaves you feeling like the bottom of the world has just dropped away, unless you have personally visited programs and schools and cried each visit because you see someone there just like your child, unless you spoke to the staff and students, and spent time doing complete background research yourself, unless you have placed your child in the hands of others and had to trust that you were leaving your child in the very best place for them at that time, unless you went through the process with your child as an involved parent and looked at your own faults, unless you celebrated with your child all their accomplishments and heard them say "Thank you for saving my life", even 5 years after they graduated, unless you spend time in this industry in one way or another, unless the very best for the child is always your first concern and priority, you really cannot, in my opinion, make an honest opinion or evaluation about this book.

In my ten years of experience as an educational consultant and child right's advocate, and twenty years as a mother, most programs and schools, adolescent escort services, therapists, and educational consultants are ethical and treat children with dignity. As in any business, and as it is in life, people are human, and will make choices and mistakes that are not always in the best interest of those they serve. That is sad, unfortunate and a fact of human behavior and life.

In the news we only hear about the boot camps that are committing horrendous mistreatment of adolescents and teens. We very rarely hear about the success stories. Any person or program that attempts to steal a soul and harm a child needs to be out of business today.

No matter how "bad" a child may behave or what choices they make to get themselves into trouble, it is never necessary to subject them to brutality of any kind or steal their worth as a human being. This book seems to bring up some very old information and not enough new information.

Again, unless you step into the shoes yourself, anyone can write anything at anytime and make it appear the way in which they feel will "sell" more books to already fragile family's in need of help.

I did not see any "realistic" alternatives to helping these families with their children. Is that the next book?

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