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Anonymous:

--- Quote from: "ellenhassinger" --- I have been home for ALMOST 1 year now, and i am still unsure how shortridge has impacted my lifestyle outside of the school.
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what i meant by that was, if you think the model student who is suposed to come out of there is happy as  can be, doesnt fight with their parents, is sober, and doesn't struggle at all in life, that isnt me.

if shortridge was supposed to make me never want to smoke another cigarette or whatever, ever again. it didnt do that for me. but it did help me as i said before. just clarifying.

blombrowski:
Ellen,

Thank you for your post.  I'll keep this short.  I'll try to use an analogy.  Please understand that this is a gross simplification of the issue.

Say you have a cold.  Now while it might be appropriate to stay home take some rest and stop doing the things you were doing before you got the cold you wouldn't say take an antibiotic for the cold, because a cold is viral.  

But let's say you did just that.  You drank your orange juice and had your chicken soup and stayed home and didn't do anything stressful and you took your antibiotics.  And after a week you were all better.

If you didn't know that antibiotics didn't have any effect on colds you might think that it was the antibiotic that made you not sick anymore.  But even though you thought that you would be wrong.  The reason you weren't sick is because you did all the other things you were supposed to do when you have a cold, that and as long as you don't do things to make yourself sicker, colds go away after time.

Shortridge Academy = Anti-biotics manufacturer

An anti-biotics manufacturer may not be "abusive", but when they look the other way when people take their drug when they don't need it, that makes them unethical.  Shortridge may not have been involved in the Escort, but they accepted you no questions when you walked in the door.  That makes them unethical.

I could go on for hours with the nuances, but I'll leave you with this, there are at least three separate questions that can be asked:

1.  Did shortridge help you personally  
2.  Is there another intervention that could have worked just as well and been less intrusive, one that you may not know about yet
3.  Did shortridge's intervention cause anybody else in the program harm

While you may think question #1 is sufficient, in truth it's questions #2 & #3 that are the most important.  If you feel that the program helped you that's your perogative.  You can see the poster before who felt differently.

Anonymous:

--- Quote from: "Guest" ---Incredibly blatant fake last two posters are incredibly blatant
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No, sorry Guest...I am a real person...feel free to PM me (I imagine this website has that?), whatever really.

The other poster, prior to mine, is also a real person...nice try though??

Anonymous:
I don't know how good a place it is...I do know that the staff and funding was all CEDU related. I went to CEDU and know these founding  members of shortridge.
nothing was right then when I knew them and I can't think its changed much- they think if kids are not like them, they're bad, wrong and fucked up. I know they are straightedged one siders not seeing the host of issues that bring them the kids in the first place.
All the staff are like kissing cousins not ratting on eacthother for all the crazy shit that went on with other staff and  :karma: former students. I hope all their lies catch up with them.

Anonymous:
I'm currently a student at Shortridge Academy, a few weeks away from graduating the program with my high school diploma. I've been here almost eighteen months, and I don't regret any of it. We aren't mistreated here at all, and while we have a lot of restrictions, none of them are unneeded, based on the actions of kids here in the past. I came here because of my drug use, dysfunctional relationship with my parents, inability to keep up with my schoolwork, and general lack of a future. Since my arrival here on February 11th, 2008, I've earned three years of high school credits and am graduating only two months behind schedule; I can interact with my parents without everything being a fight due to improved communication and, honestly, the space that we took from each other when I came here; I've been clean for almost a year and a half; and I'm attending college two weeks after I graduate. This school didn't make these things happen, I did, but it did help me immensely in my attempts in doing so.
I have no complaints about Shortridge. It's a good place, and it's become more of a home to me than I would have ever imagined it could be. Given that fact, I hate hearing people piss on it like this. I understand that you don't know anything about the school and have only your own assumptions and estimations of how situations like this might play out and feel, but it's still unpleasant how inaccurate all of this is. We are not physically, sexually, or emotionally abused, or in any other way mistreated here. I have been in abusive situations in the past, and this is not one. I've gotten a lot out of this program and I'm a much happier person now than before I came here. The friends I've made here are some of the best friends I've ever had, and the people are some of the most amazing I've ever known.
Yes, people don't always like it here, but the best things that happen to us are also usually some of the hardest. I haven't always went along with the program this willingly, and I'm known here among the staff for openly questioning anything that seems off-whack to me. But I've had a year and a half to evaluate this school and my experience here, and I've come to the conclusion that it's a good thing. I don't regret a moment of it.
I'm a person who stands up for what I believe in and love, and this strength is partially due to my time here at Shortridge, and Shortridge is both of those things for me.
And yes, I, too, am real person. You can find me on facebook (under Eryn Fekete and Erin Fekete), and on myspace (myspace.com/bloodxnxaccident).

"Worried", I'm sure you've already spoken with Josh, and know that he's fine here. If this is the Josh that is still here today, you probably know that he's set to graduate at the same time as myself, in only a few weeks from now. I hope you had fun with this forum, in the meantime.

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