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shortridge academy
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: "blombrowski" ---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
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1. yes
2. If you're talking about escorting, yes and no. The choice to get me escorted to wilderness was my parents', not the school's. I attended wilderness twice, and the first time I was not escorted at all; similarly, I was not escorted from wilderness to Shortridge. The only reason I was escorted to begin with was the fear from my parents that I would run away and they would lose me forever if they tried to be reasonable with me. If you're talking about the program at Shortridge: who knows. Maybe yes, maybe no, but I do know that Shortridge is one of the less-intrusive programs out there, and it did help me. Could I have been helped from something even less intrusive than this? Maybe. But I wasn't: I was helped through this program, and I have no regrets about it. Isn't that enough?
3. No
And no, Shortridge doesn't just let people walk through the front door, no questions asked. There's a long reviewing process of every potential student before they're accepted, and a lot of questions are asked. It's unfair to assume that Shortridge is that blind or uncaring the previous treatment of the kids they accept here.
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: "Eryn Fekete" ---
--- Quote from: "blombrowski" ---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
--- End quote ---
1. yes
2. If you're talking about escorting, yes and no. The choice to get me escorted to wilderness was my parents', not the school's. I attended wilderness twice, and the first time I was not escorted at all; similarly, I was not escorted from wilderness to Shortridge. The only reason I was escorted to begin with was the fear from my parents that I would run away and they would lose me forever if they tried to be reasonable with me. If you're talking about the program at Shortridge: who knows. Maybe yes, maybe no, but I do know that Shortridge is one of the less-intrusive programs out there, and it did help me. Could I have been helped from something even less intrusive than this? Maybe. But I wasn't: I was helped through this program, and I have no regrets about it. Isn't that enough?
3. No
And no, Shortridge doesn't just let people walk through the front door, no questions asked. There's a long reviewing process of every potential student before they're accepted, and a lot of questions are asked. It's unfair to assume that Shortridge is that blind or uncaring the previous treatment of the kids they accept here.
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It’s very disturbing when a supposed victim of abduction refers to that experience as "escort." Elizabeth Smart insisted that her kidnapper was her loving husband despite persistent police questioning. I wonder, if her own parents insisted the same, she would have professed love him, her husband, a year out? I wonder if this is person is a program troll. God, I hope so.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGtRVugNjcY
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: "Eryn Fekete" --- 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. .
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No future, huh? Death, insanity, or jail, right? Where have I heard that before?
Why would a "dysfunctional relationship with your parents be something you would have to "work on"? I'd think that would be mom & dad's fault. They’re the adults here. In marriages, I've never heard of a wife being held prisoner or separated from her husband because of “her dysfunctional relationship with him.” Such would never be encouraged or tolerated, therapeutically or legally. Yet, a relationship which your parents are solely responsible for, you are blamed for.
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: "Guest" ---
--- Quote from: "Eryn Fekete" ---
--- Quote from: "blombrowski" ---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
--- End quote ---
1. yes
2. If you're talking about escorting, yes and no. The choice to get me escorted to wilderness was my parents', not the school's. I attended wilderness twice, and the first time I was not escorted at all; similarly, I was not escorted from wilderness to Shortridge. The only reason I was escorted to begin with was the fear from my parents that I would run away and they would lose me forever if they tried to be reasonable with me. If you're talking about the program at Shortridge: who knows. Maybe yes, maybe no, but I do know that Shortridge is one of the less-intrusive programs out there, and it did help me. Could I have been helped from something even less intrusive than this? Maybe. But I wasn't: I was helped through this program, and I have no regrets about it. Isn't that enough?
3. No
And no, Shortridge doesn't just let people walk through the front door, no questions asked. There's a long reviewing process of every potential student before they're accepted, and a lot of questions are asked. It's unfair to assume that Shortridge is that blind or uncaring the previous treatment of the kids they accept here.
--- End quote ---
It’s very disturbing when a supposed victim of abduction refers to that experience as "escort." Elizabeth Smart insisted that her kidnapper was her loving husband despite persistent police questioning. I wonder, if her own parents insisted the same, she would have professed love him, her husband, a year out? I wonder if this is person is a program troll. God, I hope so.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGtRVugNjcY
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OOps I misread you. You are still locked-up. I bet your Shortridge defense will truly prove to the guards, and your detainee group that you have really "accepted responsibility for yourself" are "trustworthy" and are "ready to go home."
Almost all of us made the same kinds of statements when we were in your position. Any "school" that accepts human beings delivered in chains is a gulag, a criminal organization, and a participant in violation, imprisonment and murder. Disgusting. Shame.
Ursus:
--- Quote from: "Eryn Fekete" ---
--- Quote from: "Blombrowski" ---3. Did shortridge's intervention cause anybody else in the program harm
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3. No
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One thing that is disturbing about this particular Q&A is that some former students at Shortridge Academy have posted to the contrary. We also know most of the founder's background as well as that of certain staff members which gives me, at least, great pause as to what actually goes on there.
I have no doubt, Eryn, that you probably believe your answer to be true and completely honest at this point in time. Perhaps it really is a good place for you, and you have benefited from your time there.
How unfortunate, however, that you are blind to some of the damaging effects Shortridge can have on others, despite that social awareness is probably one of the "values" you are supposedly learning there. Ya gotta wonder just how much "good" this degree of tunnel vision can do for long term prospects.
To my mind, Shortridge Academy is clearly a place that serves some kickass Kool-Aid.
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