Just so it is stated here for the record.:
Richard Armstrong was the staff that did my orientation. He also started at least one company- a very important aspect of the troubled teen industry- the "escort" business. Richard Armstrong also worked with additional staff he borrowed from Rocky Mountain Academy, a Twila Stephenson*. When Twila didn't want to mix business and pleasure with Armstrong... he didn't see it that way. So, our former counselor from RMA, who forced me to bend over and show him, up close and personal, my privatest of privates when I was alone with him for the first time as a fourteen year old who had just been left 3,000 miles from my everything, went on to DRUG and RAPE and unconciouss co- worker who turned off his advances! a few years later.
This "school", or ahem, "ACADEMY", employed an entire atmosphere of fear, lies, and deception. Worse, it claimed, demanded you believe, and finally swore the opposite: that it functioned with Truth, Love, and Honesty. A child who is left at a place like that, and encouraged to adopt the confusing ideology of the place, will turn out very, very, perplexed (to put it perfectly innocently) for a long time.