Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > The Ridge Creek School / Hidden Lake Academy
Why was Mansfield's Family Eating on Campus?
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---Screw the eating in the Lodge thing. Are you trying to say that HLA administration members that lead those "parent workshop brainwashing sessions" and not master manipulators? Please do no insult our intelligence here. They tell you that your child will regress if you pull them out of HLA early to try and manipulate parents into keeping their children there. Parents believe what they want to believe based on their level of denial and fear. HLA talks about the "Harder Truth". Any parent with any analytical skills can see straight through that Con job and see the real Harder truth. People with psychology backgrounds should know that you will not get a positive outcome with a student by keeping them in such a negative and very unhealthy environment all the time.
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The workshops are carefully scripted to project the message that Len Wants to get out there, which is STAY STAY STAY. Jeff worked very hard to twist the workshops and make them consistantly tug on the heartstrings of the parents. Any diverson from the script was handled very harshly from either a staff or a parent.
Cates routninely was crucified by Len for deviating.
Cates was not allowed to make any decisions, we remember the time he tried to solve a problem around a student leaving the program and granting grades. Len wanted to fire him on the spot but did not trust that JEFF could handle the role.
as far as for staff eating , it was proposed several times to charge staff, especially after the retreat brainstorming sessions. HE always said no but then would run up personal catering charges with SAGE of tens of thousands of dollars. Those private christmas parties in Atlanta catered by SAGE were very expensive, especially for the GAY PARTY!!.
Anonymous:
I agree about the whole Parent Workshop Voodoo Sessions. They truly played on parents' fears and vunerabilities.
On another note - how many other parents had to send down basic school supplies to their child because HLA didn't provide pens, pencils, hi-liters, etc? Couldn't you cough up a lousy #2 leaded pencil for $6K a month?
Anonymous:
Amen to that. I had to buy school supplies over and over. My kid did not even have her own textbook in some classes. They had to borrow a textbook to do some work. For that price, every child should have their own supplies and textbook for every class.
PostGradParent:
--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---It is one of the perks that HLA affords to its employees. Staff bring there families to eat and at the same time interact with the HLA kids. My kids enjoyed eating on campus and getting to know the HLA students. In turn, the HLA kids enjoyed playing with my children.
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It infuriates me to learn that HLA feeds not only its staff, but its staffs' families, at the expense of the parents. If you're reading this, imagine YOUR employer feeding YOU everyday, AND your family members, at no expense to you. Absurd.
Anonymous:
Just a difference of opinion I guess. I think it is a good thing that staff who live on campus eat with their families in the dining hall at times. I think it is great that staff would want to intergrate their families into the lives of the students. I have no problem with it. I would not want staff members who see their job as strictly nine to five, eight hours a day. The reality is that their have been many staff who pour thier heart into the job. If they eat a few meals with their families while hanging out with the students, then fine by me.
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