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FaceKhan:
My friend is home My friend Alex, who was sent to Alldredge Academy in WV is home after 2 months. He says that the experience was beneficial and that despite the information that led me to believe the place was unsafe, it was not really bad there. He says he had enough food, the staff was competent, and overall a good experience. His complaints were mostly related to the coercive element of being there, and how the school tries to prevent escapes, like taking the kids' shoes at night and such.


 I don't think my friend was brainwashed or harmed there but, my other friend who has gone on one of these came home similarly impressed by the staff and program, but today (2 years later) is a bit resentful of his parents tricking him into thinking it was a regular Outward Bound sort of trip when it was really a coercive therapy trip which he did not need.  Slavish discipline makes a slavish temper... If severity carry'd to the
highest pitch does prevail, and works a cure upon the present unruly
distemper, it often brings in the room of it a worse and more dangerous
disease, by breaking the mind; and then, in the place of a disorderly young
fellow, you have a low spirited moap'd creature, who, however with his
unnatural sobriety he may please silly people, who commend tame unactive
children, because they make no noise, nor give them any trouble; yet at
last, will probably prove as uncomfortable a thing to his friends, as he
will be all his life an useless thing to himself and others... Beating them,
and all other sorts of slavish and corporal punishments, are not the
discipline fit to be used in the education of those we would have wise,
good, and ingenuous men...
John Locke, 1692

Kathy:
Yeay!!!!yeah!!! I'm sooo glad he is home already.  Though, I must commend you once again on being so smart.  When the people first come home from any of these places they may think they are really impressed with the staff and the program... That usually is part of the brainwashing.  Look at me, I did speaking engagements for the abusive program I was in.   Also sometimes there is the element of fear.  Sometimes they are afraid if they speak out about the program, someone will hear and they will be sent back.  The part that bothers me is the taking of the shoes and keeping them there.  That is one of the same elements that are present in many very abusive programs.  Even if there was no physical violence, it sounds like some mind-raping did occur.  


At least he is back and if he ever happens to come to you later on with questions or complaints about the program you know where you can direct him.  


Take care, Kathy

tommyfromhyde:
I'm still going     You remember what we talked about.

Antigen:
Yeaaaaaayyyyy!! Good to hear it, Face.  -If there's a worse idea going than locking kids up for victimless crimes, it's probably locking them in close proximity to some tyrannical altruist bent on helping them even if it kills them.Saving our Children from Drug Treatment Abuse

KimberlyNJ:
WoooooHooooooo!!!!!! I am soooooo glad to hear your friend is home.  I can say from my experience, all you need to do right now is be a freind.  He is still THERE mentally and will not say that anything really bad happened out of fear.  Or perhaps nothing really bad did happen,, I can pray for that.  All you need to do is be a freind.  Don't ask a whole lot of questions, don't act like he was in a "fucked up" place.  He doesn't want to hear it right now and probably wouldn't hear it either.

You ARE a true friend for worrying like this about him.  I hope all is well.  God Bless

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