Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > The Ridge Creek School / Hidden Lake Academy
any staff from 2000 to 2006 here?
along comes mary:
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"Hawley's still listed as staff. Won't HLA give you his contact info? Or has he left, but his name hasn't yet been removed?"
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I was pulled before graduation, and apparently HLA doesn't care much for that, so I was told I had "lost student privileges" ( attending friends graduations, reunions, writing current students, and the like.)
I haven't bothered trying to get contact info from them.
Even though I didn't leave under hostile circumstances, my peergroup was told they couldn't keep in touch with me because I was a "negative."
They did anyway though, so thats how I know that my leaving was spun into a big dramatic issue with my parents being labeled as codependents and I was, of course, the master manipulator who "brainwashed" them into pulling me.
:roll: Yes, you heard here first folks, it was NOT HLA, but ME manipulating and brainwashing my parents all along! bwahahaha...
So... I'm pretty much disinclined to hope for any help from HLA, and think I'll save myself some time, patronization, and cold-shouldering by not putting myself in that position and, instead, going around the machine and it's bureaucracy by dealing with people who worked there, have no agenda to push on me, and (hopefully!!) are willing to help me out.
It's basically an unwritten but well known policy that non-grads are treated as if they never existed. I saw them cut out of group photos by staff, and once someone "escaped" it was kind of taboo to discuss it, so I'm under no delusions as to how I can expect be treated if I I call requesting their assistance.
Although, ironically, perhaps due to some oversight, my parents STILL get the school newsletter and have even been contacted as potential donors!!!!!??
But NO they didn't give a red cent to them or their construction of some giant chapel (or whatever it was), which was probably a good move on their part, considering that from what I've gleaned, it turned out to be a a giant INVISIBLE chapel... and my parents are both very visually oriented...
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"You can reach Hawley thru North Georgia State College..."
"i have his home number, but he never picks up and never calls back."
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Either one of you have his email address?
(Although it wouldn't surprise me if Hawley didn't have one!)
And again, please let me know through a PM!
Thanks!
Lacey:
There is a William H Stevens in the history department. Maybe William Hawley Stevens?? It should be there under directory.
Anonymous:
i worked there in 2003(female rec/restrictions staff) and we are not supposed to have contact with any student former/present ever again. I've found lots of former students on Facebook and I enjoy seeing how y'all have grown up and gone on to succeed. It's sad that we can't even contact the school(to access staff) or we'll be ignored or arrested(yes, I said arrested.)
Good luck searching for your former staff.
Lacey:
What I remember about the rule was that you couldn't jeopordize our anonimity. As in, you couldn't greet us in public because we might be associated to the school, or contact us in any way which mght comprimise us. At least thats what they told us the whole time we were there. I went to the school 2002-2004, PG 54.
You should get a user name so people can PM you.
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: ""extstaff"" ---i worked there in 2003(female rec/restrictions staff) and we are not supposed to have contact with any student former/present ever again. I've found lots of former students on Facebook and I enjoy seeing how y'all have grown up and gone on to succeed. It's sad that we can't even contact the school(to access staff) or we'll be ignored or arrested(yes, I said arrested.)
Good luck searching for your former staff.
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ARRESTED??? What for????
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