One of the hallmarks of All About Receiving Cash is deceit. The Wizard deceives the parents, the parents deceive the kids, and the kids deceive everybody in order to get out, or join in the AARC deceit and end up like Tanya, Geniene, Natalie et al.
Another hallmark is confict of interest. Probation officers referring kids to AARC when their spouses work there, AARC staff and board members conducting studies to verify AARC's totally false success rate, etc.
I stumbled upon an interesting example while reading through some old posts. David Pablo-Escobar-Grant, in another bizarre dfense of his cult leader, claimed that he knew the psychologist who vetted the Wizard's PhD.
For anybody just joining this forum, Escobar-Grant was a full-grown adult whose mother put him in AARC at nearly twenty-two years of age. Escobar-Grant's step-father bears a tremendous amount of blame for bringing the Speedy Creek Pervert to Calgary. Escobar-Grant's step-father travelled to the Eastern Seaboard, back in the before-time, to check out Kids. He really liked the cut of the Wizard's jib, and so he got the Rotarians to give the Wiz a job and a warehouse in which to practise his craft. At the time the Wiz was set to head the Calgary branch of Kids, the shit hit the fan down in the US. The Wiz made his move and broke away from Miller Newton and Kids, although he transplanted the program lock, stock and newcomerzeroclubrapshosthome barrel. Somewhere along the way the Wiz concoted a tale about being a hockey player turned medical miracle worker, dragged along a few Kids robots, and voila, AARC was excreted into our fair province.
Now the Wizard was really just a dodgeball coach from Saskabush, so he needed a little extra paper behind him. The Wiz sent in his money to the Union Institute, a diploma mill in the US that had given a couple of degrees to Miller Newton, the Wizard's mentor in fraud, and he got himself a PhD. Now he calls himself "Doctor", and sometimes, in moments of extreme delusion, tells people he is a psychologist, which he most certainly is not.
Back to the conflict of interest. Many people knew that the Wiz was throwing bullshit faster and farther than a New Holland honeywagon, so AARColytes came to his defense. Escobar-Grant's step-father, having brought the fraudulent blight to Calgary, of course claimed that the Wiz's PhD was legit. Is it really ethical to vet a "Project Demonstrating Excellence" written about an institution you helped create, and written by a man for whose criminal acts you bear responsibility?
Of course not, but everything about AARC is unethical, mostly illegal, and overwhelmingly creepy.
