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WWASP Exposed in Australia

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Anonymous:
It's a great article - unlike the majority of the media coverage for the WWASP schools, it doesn't hold back some of the more shocking or revealing information...an effective albeit somewhat new approach.

Antigen:
The Cutting Edge: Tranquility Bay
By Clare Morgan
March 13, 2006


Disturbing look at the booming tough-love industry in the United States.


A view of Tranquility Bay

Type: Documentary
Channel: SBS
DateTuesday March 14
Time8:30 PM

Talk about tough love gone mad. Here's a disturbing look at the murky world of the World Wide Association of Specialty Programs (WWASP), America's leading provider of so-called behaviour modification programs for wayward teens.

Don't be fooled by exotic names such as Tranquility Bay and Paradise Cove in locations including Jamaica, Fiji and Western Samoa. The methods used by these camp schools to "help change wayward adolescents' inappropriate attitudes and behaviour" amount to abuse, physical and psychological. Some foreign governments have been concerned enough to shut the camps down. Some of the claims are shocking and the interviews with clearly damaged teens suggest that something terribly wrong has been going on. One mother's attempt to rescue her daughter is heart-breaking.

With the tough-love industry in the US booming (what is wrong with these people?) WWASP founder Robert Browning Lichfield has done extremely well, with buckets of money going to Mormon ministries and the Republican Party. It's a one-sided account, but makes for scary viewing.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/tv-reviews/t ... 6255.html#
Janis, Jimi, Gery, Timothy... Did you HAVE to get so close to the edge to get a really good view?
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MomCat:
It's all good, guys. Most importantly, we're getting the word out there!!!

Thanks, Ginger, for posting the article with the picture. Let me know if there's a way I can add pics when copying articles to this site. So far they disappear when I copy/paste, which is why I send other links. Thanks.

Antigen:
Oh, it's just a regular html image reference. It'll go poof as soon as the host moves it.
The will to learn is an intrinsic motive...The will to learn becomes a 'problem' only under specialized circumstances like those of a school where the curriculum is set, students confined, and a path fixed.
--Jerome S. Bruner, Harvard.
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chaking:
Anyone have the actual article or transcript instead of that little blurb?
Anyone know anywhere to view the video?

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