find it frightening that people who have been beaten like dogs could even give one small scrap of an inch in anyway what so ever for pain compliance in a program.
This is somewhat of a myth. Not all kids going through WWASPS schools are physically abused. Go read Kevin's story he posted on his forum. He spent 12 months there, made it to level 5, never had any problems, kept his head down and made it out without ever seeing the inside walls of isolation, worksheets or the back hand of a staff member. This is according to his own story.
I am not suggesting what he went through was not physchologically difficult, but you have to remember some kids do not fight the program, or even accept it willingly and actively work the program, even at the cost of OTHER KIDS in the program. See a pattern here?
I was one of those few motherfuckers who fight the whole time I am there, and use THAT as a way to get out. Some kids choose to accept the program ideology and use that in order to get out, to 'work the program'.
But please don't think every single kid going through a WWASPS school is being physically abused and treated like crap. If that were true, then there would be no discussion at the WWASPS survivor forums about how bad these programs are, because we would all know. Unfortunately, only a smaller portion of us know the TRUE horrors of what goes on behind closed doors in the dark back rooms of programs.
I would say many kids never see this side of the program. The one's who were treated not as bad seems to me, are the one's who abide by this middle ground philosophy. Because, in their experience, the people are not evil child abusers, so much as they are to some of us who were on the receiving end of the punishments that many of the other students didn't even know existed.
Go check out "Spring Creekers" myspace group if you want to laugh, and maybe cry for a while. The discussions going on are nothing short of pathetic. Many kids embrace the program, and you will be amazed how many of them posting over there still use program speak to each other. They still confront each other in the same way they did at the program. The Jr Staff still try to boss around the same lower levels they did while at the program. It's sickening.
I don't post there. I rarely post here anymore. But I had to make a simple point, that not every kid going in a WWASPS school is a victim. Some of them become the abusers. If this fact is glossed over in any way, or not told, then the middle ground movement will not make any sense. To those of us who refused the program outright, and were punished severely for it, it all makes perfect sense. And it is no less equally disgusting than what I saw while locked up. This whole industry and it's aftermath is disgusting. That is why I suggest kids don't even look behind, and just move on. So they never find these continuation of program websites, because sadly many get sucked in and never truly leave the program.
Yet sadly.. It makes sense...
Not much can top what some of those WWASP survivors had to endure. Anything less in their eyes must seem normal. The overall sense of right and wrong is just another fucking casualty to the war against programs.
"There is no right and wrong"... this is a poster hanging on the wall during the first seminar, and it's drilled into your head. The theory goes that there is no right and wrong, only action and reaction. So the reason why all of us kids were locked up in a shit hole under the control of a brainwash fanatic is because of our poor choices, how simple could that be!?
Some WWASPS kids had to 'endure' harming other kids psycholoogically by making fun of the weaker and younger kids and getting their jollies off by being a Jr Staff and sucking the program's dick. To me they deserve no sympathy. If the kids only worked together to actively fight the program it would be one thing. If they tortured kids if they worked the program it would be one thing. But many of the kids show up and do whatever it takes (including fucking over their friends) in order to move up. And some really enjoy their power and are upset when they graduate and have to live normal life because they don't have that power over other people. Those are the fucked up ones. The ones who accept the program for what it is, and then get out and treat people like they did in the program. They are in for a lonely life, stupid fuckers.
