You went to the school because you smoked pot? I don't think you're being forthcoming about why you went there.
This why it is so hard to believe the stories here. If people cant be upfront about why they were sent to the program how can we believe what they say "about" the program? We have to listen to such bull shit all the time. Why cant just one person come here and tell the truth? Just one to start!
I did not say I was sent there for smoking pot.
I was going to middle school in my hometown and made some silly comments/threats about the school to a girl. The girl told the school and I was expelled and arrested. The judge put me on probation and told me I had to be in school or I would go to jail, and homeschooling was not an option. At the time I had grown up with older friends who were trouble makers in the neighborhood. We smoked pot and drank, I also tried other drugs.
The only school that would take me due to my criminal record, was the boarding school Gables in Stone Mountain GA. I continued to smoke pot with my friends anytime I got to go home for a break. I also had to go to psychologists to show that I was not a threat or crazy, however this proved to my parents I was doing drugs because I failed drug tests.
After the counselor at Gables punched me and my parents did not press charges immediately like I told them to, I was sent to SHF and they cut ties. I believe my parents did not press charges because I was still on probation and my record was not clean so I had to be in school. I believe they sent me to SHF and cut ties with them so that they would have less of a chance of me pressing charges or something. I believe Trace convinced my parents that I was a drug addict and satanist in order to get him to send me there. This would have been very easy for Trace. My father already was scared because I did drugs, denied god, and hung out with people he thought were drug addicts and criminals (though they were just angsty pot heads). Trace is very good with words and is a preacher of sorts so he was able to connect to my father on that level because my father was a priest.
My mother however did not want me to go to SHF and this always worried SHF it seemed like. On Christmas one time my parents came from out of town to take me to Church and to take me to eat. Trace and his wife tried to talk them into not taking me anywhere because I thought the program was BS and always voiced it. My father was buying into it but my mother got angry and said "I will take my kid if I want!" Traces wife tried to guard the door and not let my mother leave, but my mom pushed his wife and walked out and told me to get in the car. Unfortunately however, I was brought back after going to Church and going to eat.
