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Irish Mom:
Worried Dad...
I am truly sorry for what you're going through with your son. I also think it's great that you chose to come to this site for info before just blindly putting your child in some place for others to deal with. I can't begin to know what you're going through and I just pray that my son never chooses that path to follow. He's still young, but it won't be too long before he's a teenager and I'm really starting to dread it...lol! Oh the horror stories I've heard!
All I can say is I've worked in one of the WWASP facilities and I just hope you continue to do your homework and NOT put your son in one of them. They don't help these kids and the ones that do seem to be doing ok are few and far between. I think they would have been fine anyway, but of course WWASP takes the credit for their wonderful turnaround.
Keep looking into anything you can to keep your son out of a facility of anykind, be it private or public.
My thoughts and prayers are with you and your son...Good Luck!
Anonymous:
Worried Dad, Horizon Academy is NOT accredited. The link you posted leads to a list of programs/schools "accredited" by the Northwest Accreditation organization. Anyone who wants to get accredited by them has to pay a fee and be "reviewed" by a "team of peers"-- in WWASPS's case, their own executives. There is no REAL accrediting going on.
Read more here:
http://www.isaccorp.org
Worried Dad:
--- Quote ---On 2006-05-03 18:17:00, Three Springs Waygookin wrote:
"You lost me.
You are tired of dealing with your child?
Sorry for my abruptness but are you some sort of asshole who dispenses with their children like a used tampon as soon as the tampon gets a bit grotty?
Now it comes out that your were divorced when he was in the 6th grade. Seriously sherlock do some googling on the studies done showing children of divorced parents and their problems. Most of the kids I have dealt with in TBS had parents either being divorced, or were divorced.
Friggin pitiful considered that the parents would still go at each other like a hat full of ass with the child watching the whole fucked up show.
Now it makes alot more sense, and your best bet would be to consider some family counseling with you, your ex, and your boy considering this all started with the divorce. Not to get back together, but to help your boy understand it ain't gonna happen, but no matter what he is still loved, and the divorce certainly isn't his fault.
...
--- End quote ---
Where did I say I've dispensed with him?
Do you really believe that I don't know that divorce is harmful to children? Of course I'm sure you're aware that staying married in some cases might do more harm to the child than getting divorced too. How is informing of this going to help my kid?
Family therapy will only work if he wants to go, which he doesn't. My ex is not interested in going either. I'd be happy to do this if it were an option. Even when he was ordered by the court to attend therapy he'd vanish sometimes when it was time for an appointment.
Now in case anyone hasn't read my previous messages I've decided against sending him to a WWASP program. I only considered because he's facing one to three years in a public jail. I've heard from a few here that a WWASP would be worse and I've no reason to doubt it. Maybe I should add this to my signature? lol
Worried Dad:
--- Quote ---On 2006-05-03 20:20:00, Anonymous wrote:
"Worried Dad, Horizon Academy is NOT accredited. The link you posted leads to a list of programs/schools "accredited" by the Northwest Accreditation organization. Anyone who wants to get accredited by them has to pay a fee and be "reviewed" by a "team of peers"-- in WWASPS's case, their own executives. There is no REAL accrediting going on.
Read more here:
http://www.isaccorp.org"
--- End quote ---
Yes that's what I was afraid of, thanks. It sounds a lot like the "Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval." It just means they paid for it.
Anonymous:
I think people keep adding WWASP comments despite the fact that you say you've decided against it is because the sales reps will say anything to make a commission. They're going to give you follow up calls and tell you that it's just one person here on Fornits and that the thousand people on Myspace are all lying about the abuse.
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