Well, maybe Miss. Hilton is not the best example of what Mr. Wasserman and his followers were able to do, but can you find a better way to inform the world of this industry?
I run
http://www.secretprisonsforteens.dk and I am not looking down on you. We have horrors of our own as troubled teens or even normally teens are not something any society wants. It reminds adults about our darkest moment of bad judgment (I am no exception). However, some parents are look more over the shoulder by the authorities than others. Danish parents can not lock their children up. They need a court order and a crime done by the child.
And our press is all over those facilities our youth can be placed in, once they have broken the law. Former employees are whistle blowers and our newspapers are giving rewards for news so they don't have a lot of room to maneuver on. Due to our size we don't have densely populated areas where such a facility is the only employer. So no town is depended of the income of such a facility like Thompson Falls is of Spring Creek Lodge.
Still we manage to perform unsatisfactory:
http://www.secretprisonsforteens.dk/DK/Denmark.htmBut we are in a bit of trouble. Our civilized way of dealing with troubled youth does not seem to work on hardcore gang-members – even the fact that they can end up in adult prison, so they are looking into your teen industry, which seems to be answer to their prayers. And both Aspen and WWASP are expanding into Europe. WWASP are not doing so good with Morava Academy closed down by the Czechs. Aspen is doing much better and now are Anasazi also joining them (They will host Brat Camp 5, which is broadcast July 2007 in UK.)
So just to be sure that no Danish teenagers are sent to the States, I have decided to create this homepage. During my year running marathons and triathlon, I visited your country, but I have not been at such facilities. I also do think that it not possible to have been in such a facility just to write about them.
CEDU is a mystery. Created in back 1969 by Wasserman, old Barbara Walters was one of the first celebrities to use CEDU for her daughter. It turned out so well that the daughter now runs a wilderness cause. We have a theory about bullies and that is that a bully often have been bullied themselves at some point. You know the rest of the story. BW is a person people listen to. One of them was Kathy Hilton – Miss. Hiltons mother. Another tread have spoken about other so-called celeb-brats, so I won’t list the names once more. But the company has managed to stay out of sight, so most people have not heard about it.
I would like to create a page about CEDU, their history, number of facilities, level system etc. But sources are drying out and it even seems to be difficult to find news about the reborn company. Who is running it and where are they located? (I prefer to publish the exact address with a link to sat image if possible.) It makes it easier for the social network (family and friends) of a teenager to find it and perhaps even seek up the victim.
Somehow the public needs to be reach in an unconventional way. Using Paris Hilton, even if the fact is that the real damage to her was done by Provo Canyon School, would bring light on the industry and send a clear message to the parents: You can not get a good result by outsourcing your child’s upbringing. You need to do it yourself.
Write to Larry King and tell him to ask questions about her time in the industry. She maybe only had stayed for some months at CEDU, but her total in the industry stay was way longer.
