Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > The Ridge Creek School / Hidden Lake Academy
Strip Searches
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: ""Deborah"" ---Back to my question- where does it state in the manual that there will be any kind of searches? What section can that be found in?
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My handbook is dated 2005 and on page 20 under "Travel Arrangements" it says "All students are searched upon their return to campus. Your willingness to follow these procedures will help keep our campus as safe as possible. All Students returning to HLA from breaks and visits will be searched upon their return."
It never uses the term "strip searched" anywhere in the handbook I have.
Deborah:
I don't have a section specific to travel arrangements. It is included in Section 4 on "Breaks". Nothing about searches of any kind. Again, this was 2000-02.
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---We were never privy to the strip searches until our return with our children from the second workshop break... there was a "slip" of the tongue, in front of me. I was in shock. It is not, repeat not , in the Parent Handbook....I never gave my permission for my minor child to be strip searched... I was never informed by HLA of the strip search policy prior or during enrollment....After that workshop,plans began to pull
our child, which we did....not only for the strip searching, but we felt during that workshop that all was not what was presented to be..along with many other parents in our group...
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The parent workshops are a joke. Isn't it something that HLA tells DHR/ORS they're an academic boarding school so they can avoid being licensed by the state, but then sells HLA to parents as being therapeutic and how parent workshops are such a vital part of the "therapy". (BTW - How many "academic" boarding schools have parent workshops for the different therapeutic levels?)
It's only when the parents start talking amongst themselves do you find out things and how unhappy many of the parents are with HLA.
HLA will swear up and down they told you about strip searches and that parents support it for safety. If a parent wants to consent to strip searches, then the parent should have the right to do so. BUT a parent should be told the truth up front and to be allowed to make a choice.
Anonymous:
I was told by one of the admissions guys that they intentionally do not say anything about strip searches.
RobertBruce:
Whoda thought theyd do something like that?
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