okay...i am the original poster AND former HLA employee (not so long ago) and the facts are as it stands from what i understand to be true:
all of the positions that have been "discontinued" have NOT been filled...other people have switched into the roles and still have to do all of their old duties...for example:
david jordan left rci, scott took on his roll plus his own, scott then left, cheryl took over part of those duties, cheryl left so now steve took over her therapeutic duties, then mark left so no steve is now left to do ALL admin and therapeutic duties...minus the 10%, isn't that right and i think that the only ones at RCI left are steve (possibly...depending on how badly the tag team len/jeff lunch went on friday), marty, danielle (who is now miserable and ready to leave), bridgette...i think that sounds about right...
so yeah, i guess 5 people makes a good ratio for only 5 students!!! running a 24 hour program...should be interesting, eh...
as for HLA...OH AND BY THE WAY...DEPT HEADS, DON'T FORGET NOT TO CASH YOUR PAYCHECKS UNTIL YOU ABSOLUTELY NEED TO (oh and Merry Christmas to you too!)
there are still several counseling staff and department heads...but gee, they go home at 5 or 8 or 10 and then there is who, trey, lee, shannon (maybe 1 or 2 more, not sure if elsa, or the other guy who was there) left to watch 90 or so kids...hmmm...sounds safe...and then they leave at 10 or so....then there were none!
and the kids are alone basically in the dorms...and "dude" i have been there when they were fully staffed and the 911 call went out for the girl who hung herself in the closet and came about seconds away from death...and when the cutters were running rampent on campus, when "hanibal" would come back from break and cut himself to ribbons because of what he did on breaks, when the girl raped the other with the stick...when the kids got hazed in the dorms, i saw the bruises, i saw the broken fingers, etc that went untreated and then had to have surgery to fix the problems...i have seen the incident reports about the kids giving eachother hand and blow jobs on the busses when they were supposed to be being watched...so "dude" don't tell me i don't know what i am talking about...i was there, i saw it, and i saw it covered up!
so do what you please on this beautiful day, but don't you dare tell ME that this is bullshit...casue you and i both know it is far from that!!!!!!!
and as for attrition...lets talk about THAT after finals which are convienently given AFTER winter break so that the kids will HAVE to return from break!