Hey Allia, thanks for shouting out, stopping by, and posting intelligently. Please send your friends and anyone who will give a shit to these threads, they are our story, and it's an important facet of (un)"American" history. And, Yes...as much as I don't want to have to fight this fight, This genre of private facilities and the transgressions associated with them must become history. It's got to stop somewhere, and evidently, the only people who give fuckin' fuck fuck, are the ones who went through it.
There's the occasional friend, a true one, who did not go through the program, there's the occasional guidance or otherwise counselor, shrink, priest, rabbi, or lover who may just get a sense of what you went through, and care. But often even a cry for help to any of these is brushed off, or worse, misinterpreted. All we have is the validation of our stories, and the opposite. The fruit loops that know it was cultish, totalitarian, fear and coersion based quackery, but still think they deserved it, still think they "learned" something (rm) amazing, that makes them different from all the other monkeys. Their stories are just as valid if they think, feel, and know (honestly in their hearts (I'm not sure it's even possible) that without their CEDU education they'd be deadinsaneorinjail) a life interrupted from drug abuse, physical abuse, gang activity, or extreme examples of "fucking up", saved them the above calamitous option.
The FACT that CEDU was closed down- for all its magical charm- for fraud and abuse just about sums up what went on there.
I'm not going to be accountable for knowing some of what I SAW, there, what I HEARD , and what I KNEW to be wrong, is still going on. Fuck that, CEDU can change it's name, WWASPs can get some inside oversite bureaucratic mind slave to "watchdog", but as long as there is ever a kid (a fucking child, CPS) as upset for as long as I was, and lied to about what his real options are...I'm on board with the activism to stop this ABUSE.
PROVO, SECRET HARBOR, whatever, it's disgusting there are literally thousands of them. Whether the confirmedly bizarre CEDU mindgames or a dog cage and restraints...who thinks anyone besides US who've been through this stuff can decide what's ACCEPTABLE? what a word, and it's just another thought/ word that they bent.