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Anonymous:
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Hi Everybody:

So great to have this board and the info on it!  I?m an educational consultant and it REALLY helps to send parents that have been considering a WWASP school the links and thoughts you all share!  

WWASP doesn't pay educational consultants a fee?so guess what??  I refer parents to OTHER programs that use the same WWASP model that DO pay me the fee.  What I like about this site is you HATE the WWASP program and I have plenty of ?stuff? to send to the parents to steer them away.  I do wrestle with myself on this because WWASP has the best outcome/success, and what I do goes totally against what I learned and know, but I make a living helping parents that were in the same place that I was. Before you get upset with me?I?m not the only one ? just about every other educational consultant and the schools themselves are doing the same thing. The schools are independent, so they aren?t ?under fire.?  The schools I do refer to, though they use the same program model, don?t have the help parents need: support groups, seminars, aftercare or warranty, or even the high success rate?but, so what??  Their tuition is higher, so my fee is higher!!  YIPPEE!!  Parents happen upon this or struggling teens and get all the negative info they need!  Yippee again!!

Get UPSET at me for referring parents to programs ? I don?t care - similar help is better than none. I'm honest enough to admit it!! What you guys are doing is great!!

Anonymous:
From what i know of most educational consultants, they charge BOTH the parents and get a fee from the school they refer to...in most cases.  They tend to refer to the school that pays the highest fee, whether it's in the best interests of the student/family.  When I was researching some options, PURE referred me to an expensive week long boot camp in Arizona - which was completely NOT what my child needed.  I did much better on my own, thank you very much.  But if you choose to scare parents off that you know would benefit much better by admitting to a wwasp program, shame on you.

scottT:
Uh, if you really think its great to refer parents to this bulletin board to to steer them away from WWASPs schools,  won't they read your post here too?

   Thank you for your post, Mr. Atkin,  your new found candor is refreshing.  We are all pleased that Fornits welcomes messages representing all viewpoints. (As you know, other bulletin boards
have authoritarian policies which forbid "disconfirming viewpoints"  tsk, tsk)

FaceKhan:
Obviously this is not an ed consultant, just a wwaspie with a little sarcasm.

Of course its certainly not a wwasp student, I believe sarcasm leads to the torture room for a few months, doesn't it?

Anonymous:
Can't tell if it's a wwasp person that wrote this, but I do know that ed consultants and even the schools are now capitalizing on the publicity and regularly send it out to parents that are looking at options.  Some even put hard copies in their mail out packets, saying they offer better options, etc.  What I learned is that they don't give parents better options, just more expensive ones.  They also pose as upset parents or teens on web sites so it's hard for the parents to tell if they are who they say they are.  They've planted the seed of doubt, and that's what's it's all about, whether true or not.  Some regularly go on the struggling teens site and privately e-mail parents that are asking about options - steering them to their websites or phone numbers.  There, they not only make themselves sound better than wwasp, but any program they are not referring to.   :???:

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