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New Leaf Academy
Anonymous:
I have an acquaintance whose daughter has attended for 18 months. Background: daughter is caught in an ugly custody dispute and custodial parent sent her to New Leaf (North Carolina). Pros: small classes, excellent field trips and good extra-curricular opportunities. Example: The girl has participated in running competitions, gone tubing and skiing, learned to play chess, gone to visit Duke University. Cons: very limited parental access for at least the first year. No home visits, limited phone calls. letters written to the girl are opened and reviewed before she can read them. Her letters are reviewed before she sends. All phone calls monitored. Little emphasis on family therapy and no confidentiality.
Much of what this girls says in therapy is fodder for the courts.
Anyway, for what it's worth.
Anonymous:
Thank you. This is worth a lot. It says a lot. You mentioned not much contact for the 1st yr and dodgy therapy. Do u know what the therapy consists of? Given the young age of the girls does the NC branch allow people to escort their kids?
Covergaard:
The homepage stated:
"The staff at New Leaf Academy private girls school carefully and individually screens each candidate and her parents for admission through a series of interviews and assessment tools."
How does it work? Does the parents have to show the contents of their wallets?
Anonymous:
To add to my post of December 24 and to answer some questions.
No I do not know anything more about daily therapy at the school other than what the web site contains. I only know that my aquaintance (who is the non-custodial parent of the student) is not allowed to be involved in any face-to-face therapy with her child and a therapist. Instead my friend is only allowed a ten-minute conversation with her child per week. The counselors are pressuring the child to make these phone conversations (which are monitored and recorded) "structured". That is, they require the child to ask my friend "therapeutic" questions. If the parent does not want to respond to these questions, the child and the counselor at New Leaf terminate the call. All discussions between my friend and the child are turned over to the custodial parent for use in an on-going custody/visitation dispute.
In the end what has New Leaf accomplished with this child? Before the student entered New Leaf she was hostile to the custodial parent and loving toward the non-custodial parent. Now she is openly hostile and contemptuous of the non-custodial parent. I do not know what her relationship is with the custodial parent. So, is the situation better? Who knows??
As for screening the parent and child, yes absolutely. The parent(s) must be able to pay. And New Leaf at North Carolina will not address children with severe emotional or behavoiral problems.
They do not want children who have abused drugs or alcohol, been runaways, are sexually promiscuous, have been violent or suicidal, or have children with severe learning or emotional disabilities. They do not have the expertise to deal with these problems.
Oz girl:
Can either parent visit?
Can the kid write to wider relatives?
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