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NY TIMES: Charges of Cruelty at a Jamaica Discipline Academy

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MORSEGLASS:
oops sorry about the caps, i have to log on with them and i forget to turn them off, shannon

FaceKhan:
You make a good point about why parents, especially in the last two years or so have been becoming more vocal and pulling their kids faster.

Perhaps the parents that they are recruiting these days are less apt to be duped and less apt to take it sitting down and less apt to not care.

Certainly this industry has been growing rapidly and expanding the marketing efforts and perhaps reaching more parents who unlike their earlier customers are not looking for the kind of program that WWASP runs.

I agree most WWASP parents don't know what they are signing their kids in for. But they still make themselves easy prey and fall for the quick and easy fix offered to them.

Even though most parents really are being duped there are definitely a large number of WWASP/Provo/CEDU parents out there who send their kid away simply to get rid of them or to punish them or to keep them from telling of abuse at home.

Two simple ways to kill this industry, make it a crime to hold a teen for treatment against their will without due process and secondly, make child abuse punishable by death. Call it murdering the future.

Is the death penalty a detterant to these creeps? I will be thinking about that when Lichfield and Kay are strapped to a gurney watching the poison crawl up the tube.

MORSEGLASS:
well i cant answer to why everyone else choose the program, ive talked to a few others, i agree some dont see anything wrong with the progam, i know i was in shock when the embassy took my daughter aside and let her use their phone to contact me, by that time i already started coming across some things on the net, and had  her plane ticket, that was the day after the riot, but also when they come home they dont tell you everything right off, you start hearing more and more as the first few days go by, then you finally get the whole story, then youre mad as hell. and she knew the day she came home she wasnt going back,the education issue makes me the madest, she was sent for an education, the web site misleads you to think they are getting one, i guess some do, my daughter did not. she is now very happy to be home and wants to go to school. shannon

scottT:
i'm an attorney and since we pulled our son out a few weeks ago,  i've been daydreaming about possible litigation tactics.  one that occurs to me is that rather than (or in addition to) attacking the program directly,  to start by bringing actions (with the actual child as plaintiff,  of course)  against the persons who seize and transport,  then bring the program and staff in as a material witnesses, to give up  the names and contact info of more of their transport crews.  Then,  play the transporters off against the programs to see who comes up with best evidence of kidnapping, false imprisonment, conspiracy to effect same etc.  Any DA's, FBI agents,  or class action attorneys out there with insight?

[ This Message was edited by: scottT on 2003-06-20 06:58 ]

MORSEGLASS:
DID YOU READ THE TICO TIMES? TODAY?

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