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Vulcan Challenge - Fire Element

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Anonymous:
when i was there, the purpose of a vulcan challenge was to force you to come out of your "shell".
for part of mine, i had to write a song on the guitar and basically make an asshole of myself because my counselors knew damn well that at the time, i couldnt even play a note right. honestly, i dont even remember the other part. oh well. shows how much benefit it did me. other kids in my peer group had to sing and dance and basically make mockeries of themselves for the entertainment of the counselors. although i didnt see anything particularly traumatizing occur, but then again, for all i know it did, i slept during every other pgs vulcan challenge, i do know that what i got out of these "challenges" was that the staff had a good laugh at the kids and there was no fucking theraputic value in singing and dancing to "tears of a clown". this place is ridiculous.


dan pg26

Lacey:
Hehe. I had to dance with ribbon dancers dressed in all white to the song "True Colors". It was frickin hilarious.

Deborah:
What did either of you think at the time, the purpose of this 'therapeutic' activity was?
Sounds like a mandatory talent show and someone else picks your activity?
'Forced' seems to be the key word, and how do you 'force' someone out of their shell?
How could it have been more fun and more effect, if at all?

Lacey:
Well, first off its not supposed to be fun for anyone but the spectators. The reason behind my "challenge" was because I used to be like, a "goth" or whatever when I was like 13. And they thought that the way to get me out of that mindset was to make me dress in all white and play with rainbow streamers in front of the student body. In reality, the goth crap was just a phase I went thru in early HS years and had absolutely nothing to do with why I was sent away. I mean all kids go thru wierd phases with the way they dress and act. But they focused on that as my main issue. So that was their reasoning for my challenge. There were 2 others (everyone gets 3 challenges) but I cant remember what they were.

Anonymous:
it is s shame but there are probably no staff there who even know what the vulcan challenge was meant to do especially if they come up with a traumatizing idea like this..i am disgusted reading about it.  i am a former staff who left during one of HLA's famous purges but i can tell you that a vulcan challenge could be a good one if it was created right.  the "performance" of the challenge had little to do with it.  the challenge came form the moment they were told what they were going to do.  it should be creative and open ended so they students can be creative.  having a young girl sing i feel pretty and dance to it after spending years and years under that insecurity was not a bad...though many of you will tear it apart, but how she handled it with grace even though she wanted to run was wonderful to watch.  she came up to after and said she had never had a chance to dance before and her confidence was so much stronger now.  HLA does not have the staff who understands the meaning of what they are teaching if they are doing horrific things and it is a shame because it could be good.

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