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Anonymous:
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl bump

Antigen:

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Teenage Wasteland

Maia Szalavitz, senior fellow at stats.org, a media watchdog group, and author, Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Costs Parents and Hurts Kids (Riverhead, 2006),
- on the downside of "tough love" boot camps for young adults

» Help at Any Cost (Riverhead)


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Here's the direct link to the audio of just that segment:

http://audio.wnyc.org/bl/bl021706c.mp3


It is the absolute right of the state to supervise the formation of public opinion.

--Joseph Goebbels
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Antigen:
So two current program parents called in. Neither one were willing to name the school/program where their sons are currently held. Both claimed their kids are doing great!, though one did say his son got sanctioned w/ a second run through wilderness. I tried to call in but the lines were busy. Glad Rich got through. But I wanted to ask how long their sons had been away and if either of those fathers have had any unmonitored contact w/ their kids at all.


For something that has spread with all the forethought of kudzu, the Internet isn't half bad."
-- Newsweek, 2/27/95

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Antigen:
Listening to it again, Richard Reese says his son wasn't really fucking up, they were just paranoid that he might start any minute. Then in the next breath he describes shipping him off as an extreme sort of move. WTF??? And, of course, neither programmed parent can get Maia's name right. Reese refers to her as Andrea. Did he have her mixed up w/ Andrea from PFRR, maybe?

Next guy calls her Ms. Sullivan????

In case you guys are reading here, please take a little advice. Skip the next couple of seminars and toughlove parent hategroup meetings. Catch up on some sleep. Seek out information and opinions other than program propaganda. Here's an idea actually read the book before commenting on the issue. Maia has done her homework. She's not a layman gadfly like I am and she's not directly involved in the industry as you are. She's a bona fied, qualified and respected investigative journalist, specializing in drug treatment and health issues.

Rudy Bentz, otoh, has as his only credential the same as Chuck Dederich, Joe Ricci and Art Barker; they all were skidrow drunks or junkies who became evangelical cult gurus. That's it. That's their entire claim to expertise.



We will make mistakes. Learning from them doesn't make us heros. It only gives us a passing grade on the evolutionary scale.
Antigen
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TheWho:
I was amazed by the guy from Straight, I think his name was Richard.  The place actually reached in to his families home and took his sister into the program (or maybe the other way around). Thats sounds really messed up.  

The kid, I think Ugan was his name, that was sent to the Christian reform school, was there from the 7th grade until junior year.  No staff, little schooling, family barely visited ,horrible.  He then moved on to Military school, still struggling at age 30.

They didnt mention if the programs were still running, does anyone know?[ This Message was edited by: TheWho on 2006-02-17 14:19 ]

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