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"Intervention" Program

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Anonymous:
Is anyone aware of this program at HLA?  It is not in the Handbook..We were not told of any such program other than Ridge Creek...Apparently it is where the children are sent to a separate wilderness program run by Ridge Creek where the children are required to carry 30 lb. sand bags all day on their back..?  Where did this come from????? Two water bottles all day, two rationed meals and dirt sleeping with no blankets???

Anonymous:
This program started right as I was graduating. It started (if my memory serves me) with a couple girls who got coke in. They sent them on a 7-day intervention. It was more (MUCH more) intense than Ridge Creek, but shorter. From what I heard it was pretty nasty, and very hellish. I went to RCI, and it really wasn't that bad. It was crap, and didn't do anything for me, but wasnt the harderst wilderness program I went to. But the interventions sounded terrible.

Deborah:
I know about Restrictions and have read about Challenge.
http://wwf.avigation.net/viewtopic.php? ... cks#200980
http://wwf.avigation.net/viewtopic.php? ... cks#198442

How is Intervention different?

Anonymous:
An intervention usually comes at the order of Len Buccellato (sometimes from the head of the counseling dept).  It is typically reserved for a kids that do something outrageous such as bringing a heavy drug onto campus, or seriously beating up another kid.  It is meant soley to make a kid miserable enough to not do what ever they did again.

It rarely makes lasting changes to the kid, but the real purpose is to send a message to the rest of campus that that kind of behavior will lead to seriously miserable consequences.

Deborah:
It was stated above that

"children are required to carry 30 lb. sand bags all day on their back..? Where did this come from????? Two water bottles all day, two rationed meals and dirt sleeping with no blankets???"

Can you comment on that?

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