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TheWho:

--- Quote from: ""Deborah"" ---EDUCATIONAL Consultants should not be making placements to THERAPEUTIC facilities. Even with a dx, can they really assess whether the facility will meet their needs or not? Anyone can look on program websites and pick one that claims to treat the dx someone has give their kid.
But, at the very least should meet and know something about the kid they are referring for.
Elizabeth Hall told me that she hoped all would be well and it would be a good placement, so my son could "get on with his education".
Stupid bitch. He was an A/B student with no academic issues and the only "problem" he had was trying to defend himself against two ignorant people, which was consequently dx'd as ODD.
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So it sounds like we need to define the boundary conditions of EdCons.  I didnt know they were not allowed to do this.  Does anyone have a definition of what they can and cant do or their qualifications?  Should they be required to meet each child and diagnose them?  Should they only refer children to non- Theraeutic schools? etc.

RobertBruce:
They are yet another unregulated industry. There's no question to what they can get away with right now. The question is should they be allowed?

Anonymous:
I'm partially joking and partly serious when I say:

Why should the educational consultants have real qualifications???

Serioulsy, so they can be educated to send people to a school w/ people w/ mail-away degrees???

Even if they were regulated that is only a piece of the puzzle...

Or if regulated, could the ed cons simply obtain the Farrington University diploma?

So the real solution would be real regulation...better than private school regulation...

happyday7:
You should not call them Educational Consultants. They should be called ED CONS because they are in the business of conning parents into believing the empty promises they make to you in order to get your child enrolled in a school. ED CONS have been accused of taking kick backs from schools for how many kids they enroll. It is a big $$$ racket.  That is my opinion based on my own experience with an ED CON.

Anonymous:
Hopefully one of these days a T.V. news show will start investigating this industry and realize how corrupt it is. Unfortunately there's Dr. Phil and Oprah on T.V. talking about how great they are, but have they ever really been to an unregulated TBS or Wilderness Program and seen what goes on there? I highly doubt it. There have been people who have written to both of them about the Troubled Teen Industry and they've failed to respond or acknowledge their letters. I look forward to the day when a responsible journalist takes on this industry and finally exposes all the fraud and abuse.

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