Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > The Ridge Creek School / Hidden Lake Academy
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Anonymous:
--- Quote ---I was at that assembly. Charles Cates did not tell the students not to tell their parents. He told them not to tell their parents a faulty version of the story. That was the whole point of making the announcement. He wanted to dispell rumors before everyone got on the phone to tell their parents "locals are coming onto campus raping girls". You may not like Charles Cates, but he is not stupid. He is not going to tell the student body not to tell their parents.
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If you were at that assembly, you would remember very specifically Mandy Evans, who was a counselor there at the time saying not to go tell our parents about what had happened in attempts for us to get pulled. Anyone who was there would remember that.
Anonymous:
So it was Mandy that told the student body not to tell? I thought you said it was Charles Cates.
In either case...the point is that if you are telling your parents for the sole purpose of getting pulled, then you would in fact be manipulating. If you were telling them simply because it is something very significant that happened at your school then that would be a different thing. Either way, I bet your counselors had told the parents before most of the kids could anyway. That is basic damage control. Get the information out to the parents first, so they are not surprised when their children bring it up.
Mandy was saying don't use this as a means to get pulled. She didn't mean don't tell your parents at all. That is completely unrealistic. Again, the point of the meeting was to get the true story out to the student body so that a bunch of false rumors didn't get to the parents.
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---So it was Mandy that told the student body not to tell? I thought you said it was Charles Cates.
In either case...the point is that if you are telling your parents for the sole purpose of getting pulled, then you would in fact be manipulating. If you were telling them simply because it is something very significant that happened at your school then that would be a different thing. Either way, I bet your counselors had told the parents before most of the kids could anyway. That is basic damage control. Get the information out to the parents first, so they are not surprised when their children bring it up.
Mandy was saying don't use this as a means to get pulled. She didn't mean don't tell your parents at all. That is completely unrealistic. Again, the point of the meeting was to get the true story out to the student body so that a bunch of false rumors didn't get to the parents.
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I'm a parent and I was NEVER informed about this incident!
Anonymous:
How long has your child been there? This happened around a year ago if I remember correctly.
RobertBruce:
Whomever said it apparently Cates was there and didnt offer up any dissent, so obviously it was something agreed upon earlier.
This practice is no different than the parent handbook indoctrinating parents with; "your child will lie to you, will tell this is an awful place, don't listen to him."
I have no doubt that the counselors frantically called every parent to tell them some make believe fairy tale about what really happened, they probably also told them "There's a bunch of rumors(aka "the truth") going around about this event, if your child tells you anything don't believe him and please report it to us."
Manipulation down to a science.
I'm going to guess but I wonder if the counselors bothered to mention that the girl who actually performed the rape stayed on campus for another month.
Sure sounds safe.
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