On 2003-05-26 21:46:00, Anonymous wrote:
"What you aren't hearing is that the chaos started because an alcoholic non-custodial parent went there to see her daughter.
No, actually, what started all the trouble was a former academy director, Amberly Knight, wrote to the Costa Rican minister for child welfare, saying that "Dundee Ranch Academy should not be allowed to operate because it is poorly managed, takes financial advantage of parents in crisis, and puts teens in physical and emotional risk."
[New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/27/inter ... &position= ]
The girl didn't even want to see this mother, that's when this mother brought in the authorities. Could this is the same person who has been writing all the attacks (Carey??) on this site?
Carey's sons are already out. And I have to say, that lady has my admiration. It must have taken some considerable raw courage along with fast thinking to walk right in, break out with those two boys and then talk her way past Customs and Immigration, despite the fact that the staff at Dundee had their pasports locked in a safe back at the office. ::bangin:: " --IBID
That, in the more comonly accepted reality, is the sort of thing most people think of when you say something like "A lot of kids were hurt".
From what I've read here, this "slam" sight is full of angry people that 1- have no experience of the positive results it creates (no, it's not a cult and if you had experience of it you would know that) 2-teens that spent a long time there and did nothing or little with the gift their parents were giving them, or 3- teens that manipulated their parents into believing they were being abused or starved or whatever just to get a ticket home. (gee, what got them there in the first place??)
Well, there are currently 493 registered users, 84 of whom have posted in the last 30 days and 13 of whom have registered in the past week. Then there are the considerable number of anonymous posters. As far as I know, not one teenager. In fact, most of us could well be described as "over the hill". And most of us have had considerably more experience with this Synanon based cult than you have yet. See, we've all come out the other end and have the benefit of hind-sight. You, my friend and spiritual brother (or sister) are still deep in the fog. Come back when you've quit drinking the kool aid.
Dundee is closing until the allegations are checked out and proven to be false.
Or when Hell freezes over, whichever comes first. :wink:
Just like any newspaper article, go ahead and believe what you read if you choose to,but know there is SO MUCH more to this story from those that know what really happened.
I'm
Tryin' ta' tell ya', friend!
Do you really think there are 200 parents that are stupid enough to knowingly put their child in danger?
Do you believe there are millions of people stupid enough to buy into EST, Scientology and Jim and Tammy Baker? Were there another 50k or so parents stupid enough to buy into Straight, Inc. and untold numbers more who continue to get sucked dry by this same cult under it's new names?
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
--Albert Einstein
And yes, plenty of them had been there more than once. A little secret...most kids in the beginning will say ANYTHING to come home and abuse is the number one tactic because they think it will work. My son has been home for almost 3 years from another WWASP facility and I KNOW what it taught him and my family has worked for the long term. Most of us wouldn't even think of posting on this site, because it's such a negative place to be - so many assumptions - let the investigation tell the truth. My educated experience comes from Cross Creek Programs - "
Funny, so many of these kids get shackled in their beds and even drugged to get them to these virtual paradises
because they're chronic runaways. And now you're saying that all they ever wanted was to go home? That seems rather odd, don't you think? And, if the problem was running away, and suddenly the kid wants nothing more than the warmth and affection of their loving and faultless[sic] parents, then why don't they just declare the kid cured and send them back to good old mom and pop?
Honey, I'd be willing to bet good money that your son has tried to tell you how phucked up that place was. You don't want to hear it. You seem to have a gift for selective perception.
Emotions rule the world; Is it any wonder that it's so mucked up?!
Anonymity Anonymous
