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Anonymous:

--- Quote from: "ALLWHET" ---Careful of what you read from the above author.  The guy goes by the name of “TAZ”  ,lost his job as a police officer and then lost his job as a prison guard.  He has a lot of hatred towards the state and others police officers.  He doesn’t always base his blog writings on fact, if the truth doesn’t fit his agenda.


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not to distract from the 'official oppression/ handcuffs/ vasoline on a kid's ass', but i'd be very interested to read why he was fired. links? insubordination? refusing to gease up someone's ass, or palm, as it were? any charges against him?
can you prove anything he wrote is lie? would like to see that too.
hatred toward the state? why?
from what i've read, he seems to support ethical police officers. are you on the unethical side?
his advocacy for mike perry's rights alone, wins him a gold star.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/articl ... texas.html

have you read the tdps report?
and why aren't the hooligans at excel under the watchful eye of tx dept of family and protective services? they could be facing a shut-down about now had they been licensed.

Anonymous:
I know that many people hate it when a person actually supports a TBS.  I have read so many negative comments that I am compelled to respond.  My daughter, at age 15, was failing school, was verbally abusive to our family, cutting herself, using drugs such as marijuana, ecstasy, and cocaine, and running away (the last time with a cocaine dealer).  We spent several months in family/individual therapy.  We attended family camps.  Nothing worked.  I realized, after several months, that spending one hour a week in therapy, or one week in family camp could never compete with her peer group that she spent countless hours with weekly.  As a parent, I knew that she was headed for disaster and chose to take action.  I researched many programs, and settled on sending her to SUWS Idaho for a wilderness program.  She stayed 6 weeks there and to this day says, "I absolutely loved it."  I then, with the assistance of therapists and educational consultants, sent her to Excel Academy in Conroe, TX.  It was strange in the beginning to see her in an orange jumpsuit.  It was strange that they were monitored so intensely.  No, I didn't agree with every procedure, nor did she.  But in the end, it saved her life!  She is now 17 and has been home for 6 months.  She is drug and alcohol free.  She doesn't cut herself anymore.  She doesn't run away.  She is making wonderful grades.  In fact, yesterday, she commented that we need to set up her SAT test date, which we did today.  She is looking forward to college.  I'm not naive enough to think that she will never struggle again.  We're all human and have our crosses to bear.  I do, however, know that she has the tools and resources to make better choices.  I also know that if she gets off track, she knows how to get back on track.

I feel so strongly positive about the need for these types of programs that I have returned to college for a Psychology/Counseling degree.  I am currently looking at land to purchase for a TBS.  I am attending the NATSAP conference in January, and guess what....my daughter is going with me because she feels as strongly about this as I do.  I guess I will soon be someone else for the nay-sayers to criticize. The truth is that not every program is going to help every child, which is really unfortunate.   However, I feel that if I can help just one child/family to have the outcome that we have had then it will be worth the criticism.

Anonymous:

--- Quote from: "Renea" ---I know that many people hate it when a person actually supports a TBS.  I have read so many negative comments that I am compelled to respond.  My daughter, at age 15, was failing school, was verbally abusive to our family, cutting herself, using drugs such as marijuana, ecstasy, and cocaine, and running away (the last time with a cocaine dealer).  We spent several months in family/individual therapy.  We attended family camps.  Nothing worked.  I realized, after several months, that spending one hour a week in therapy, or one week in family camp could never compete with her peer group that she spent countless hours with weekly.  As a parent, I knew that she was headed for disaster and chose to take action.  I researched many programs, and settled on sending her to SUWS Idaho for a wilderness program.  She stayed 6 weeks there and to this day says, "I absolutely loved it."  I then, with the assistance of therapists and educational consultants, sent her to Excel Academy in Conroe, TX.  It was strange in the beginning to see her in an orange jumpsuit.  It was strange that they were monitored so intensely.  No, I didn't agree with every procedure, nor did she.  But in the end, it saved her life!  She is now 17 and has been home for 6 months.  She is drug and alcohol free.  She doesn't cut herself anymore.  She doesn't run away.  She is making wonderful grades.  In fact, yesterday, she commented that we need to set up her SAT test date, which we did today.  She is looking forward to college.  I'm not naive enough to think that she will never struggle again.  We're all human and have our crosses to bear.  I do, however, know that she has the tools and resources to make better choices.  I also know that if she gets off track, she knows how to get back on track.

I feel so strongly positive about the need for these types of programs that I have returned to college for a Psychology/Counseling degree.  I am currently looking at land to purchase for a TBS.  I am attending the NATSAP conference in January, and guess what....my daughter is going with me because she feels as strongly about this as I do.  I guess I will soon be someone else for the nay-sayers to criticize. The truth is that not every program is going to help every child, which is really unfortunate.   However, I feel that if I can help just one child/family to have the outcome that we have had then it will be worth the criticism.
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First of all I think that Excel Academy have improved. When your daugther was there they had a program that claimed to solve all problems. Now they have targeted the program against substance abuse only. No program in the world can fix everything!

Second of all I dont see why there should be a need to humiliate the kids by forcing them to wear jumpsuits and force them to visit the prisons (Whether it was normal for the kids to be forced to undress we dont know, but we know that the prison visit was normal under the old sheriff. Excel was a huge employer in his county and was given some space.)

When you daugther left SUWS she was ready for a change. Else SUWS hadn't released her or done their job good enough. So all this intense watching and use of level system wasn't needed. She could have done both cheaper and better in a normal sober living community.

As for creating her abuse, I think that you should keep an eye on your local community. It had cost you a lot of money and her a year lost from her life. Your wallet will remain empty and she will remain a person without a period of adolsence. Many people in their 20's act like teenagers. Maybe it is because they didn't had that period in their life. Why not work to change it so other parents shouldn't take costs like you did?

In Denmark we believe in keeping things open. If our police arrest youth when drinking alcohol they will try to hide it and approach criminals who also would introduce them to drugs. Here is an article from my town, which you can put into google translate (Danish->English) and see how we have created a society where youth drink with less deaths, teenage pregnancies and people in jail: Youth drinking. You will discover that the neighbors was disturbed and the police asked the youth to move their partying on school property down to another public school where the distance the neighbors are greater. You will also learn that the police brought sausages to the teenagers and let them take photos where the youth did pose in front of the policecar. Why? Because all the police wanted to do was to report this group to the Night Owls, which is a group of parents walking around the city all night to observe the teenagers and inform parents if a kid gets ill. They didn't want to stop the party itself. They know that the process of socializing will benefit the teenagers in the end.

So while you are busy working on improvement of TBS's, I think the most important issue most be to improve society so it becomes accepted to acknowledge that you have a problem and to give help without locking people up.

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