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Ursus:

--- Quote from: "Oscar" ---I have been digging a little further. It seems that one of the founders former jobs were as owner of "Academy of the Rockies". They sold it to Wasserman, who renamed it to Rocky Mountain Academy.
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Yep. See first paragraph of the New Perspectives piece (above):

Keven and Patricia Cullinane are announcing the opening of a new program, Freedom Mountain Academy (FMA). In some ways FMA is built on the foundation of their earlier school, called The Academy of the Rockies, which they operated for ten years during the 1970s. Actually, FMA's main lodge has been built in large part by volunteer labor cheerfully supplied by alumni of the Academy of the Rockies. When the Cullinanes sold the Academy of the Rockies, the property was developed into CEDU's Rocky Mountain Academy, in Bonners Ferry, Idaho. Keven and Patricia later helped develop the Carden Academy of Basic Education, in California, which is currently operating quite successfully.[/list]

Ursus:
Visit Reports
Posted: Jun 8, 2009

FREEDOM MOUNTAIN ACADEMY

Mountain City, TN
Kevin & Patricia Cullinane
423-727-4905
http://www.freedommountainacademy.com

Visit by Nancy Coulbourn Ike, MEd, CEP, April 27, 2009

I drove six hours from Cincinnati to Mountain City in eastern TN to visit Freedom Mountain Academy, a school that sounded so different from any boarding school I had ever seen. And it was different. FMA is tucked into a valley, a beautiful lodge designed and built by the Cullinane family which is surrounded by a farm that sustains the staff and students at the school. The students plant and maintain a garden, help feed and care for the farm animals, share cooking and cleaning at the lodge, take part in 5 ½ hours of academics 5 days a week, 4 hours on Saturday and participate in a four day expedition in the mountains once a month.

Kevin and Patricia Cullinane headed schools in northern Idaho and Sothern California and taught at Executive Training Seminars in South Caroline. In 2000 the Cullianes founded Freedom Mountain Academy. The school is equipped to house 20 students each in a single occupant room. The boys' dorm is entirely separate from that of the girls. There is no electricity in the dorms or schoolhouse. Light is provided by kerosene lamps. Meals are cooked on a beautiful old wood fired stove.

Students study in the mode of a one room schoolhouse. There are no computers or television but videos are shown on the weekend. Emphasis is placed on literature, ethics, composition and history. Students read Romeo and Juliet, The Fountainhead, 1984 and other classics. In history they study the nineteen civilizations that led up to the current one. Much time is spent on the etymology of the English language and students learn to be precise in the use of their language. Math is individualized with packets of material from the University of Missouri. Science is studied in the classroom and kitchen as Nutrition or in the out of doors during the mountaineering.

FMA is a nine month program and almost all students attend for just one year. Their ages range from 15 to 17, and they either return home to finish high school or go on to college.

Freedom Mountain Academy is not a therapeutic program. It is a highly structured but nurturing alternative school for students who are flexible and open for change. If students have been prescribed a medication for ADHD, the Cullinanes ask parents to try the school without the meds. A therapist is available in Mountain City and the Academy has a good relationship with a physician there. Excellent hospital facilities are found in nearby Johnson City.

FMA will share a list of alumni parents who are willing to talk with or email the parents of prospective parents.


Copyright © 2009, Woodbury Reports, Inc.

try another castle:
Ive always been curious to the nature of Academy of the Rockies, as I could never ascertain if it was part of the troubled teen industry or not.


--- Quote ---20 students each in a single occupant room
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What???  :eek:  Are they stacked like cordwood?

Oscar:
It seems that it is a place where you can be sent to if you are in doubt which gender you should choose for a life partner.


--- Quote ---D.C. 16-year-old who vanished during a hike in Tenn. is found alive and safe
by Michael Rosenwald, The Washington Post, November 17 - 2015

Authorities in the Tennessee mountains found a District teenager alive and well Tuesday after she went missing last week on a group hike through a national forest with her school.

Ava Zechiel, 16, was on a rugged trail when she vanished about 2:30 p.m. Nov. 11. Ground and air searches by the Johnson County sheriff and the FBI turned up no clues of her whereabouts, frustrating and frightening her family and friends.

But the search continued, and Zechiel was found somewhere in the woods around lunchtime Tuesday, according to her relieved father, Howard Zechiel, who was in Tennessee.

“She was found by the search teams in good health,” he said, adding that she was on her way to the county fire station.

A little while later, her mother posted on Facebook that her daughter couldn’t walk and was being carried out of the woods. However, she was “healthy enough” to see her parents before being taken to a hospital.

“You can’t imagine my joy,” she wrote.

Johnson County Sheriff Mike Reece did not immediately return a request for comment.

Zechiel, a former student at Wilson High School in the District, attends Freedom Mountain Academy in Mountain City. It bills itself as “a rare alternative boarding school with a focus on providing a comprehensive program that combines academic study, farm work and wilderness adventure.”

Zechiel’s father would not comment on the circumstances of his daughter’s disappearance, but Dan Cullinane, a staff member at the school, told The Washington Post that she ran away after refusing to hike any farther.

Staff members on the hike began a search and called 911, Cullinane said. The group was about two miles from the nearest town and even closer to roads when Zechiel vanished.

Her friends and family started a Facebook group called “Help Us Find Ava Zechiel.” A flier posted by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children was also distributed, saying that Zechiel may be in need of medical attention.

“Praying this is the day Ava is found,” the Facebook group posted Monday, “as the search continues this morning.”

This was not Zechiel’s first hike.

A few days before she went missing, Zechiel wrote a blog post on the school’s Web site about an earlier trek. (The site is down, but a cached version is available.)

Nothing appeared to be amiss.

“Coming from a large city to a farm in Northeast Tennessee was a shock to my system and so was my first expedition,” she wrote, adding, “Hiking has never been my forte.”

She said the hike lasted six days and included “descending a rocky trail and a visit to a small plane crash site.”

“Although my first expedition was one of the hardest things I have ever done, I can already see that it has helped. . . . ” she wrote. “For one, I have become a lot more confident in my abilities, and I feel happier for having pushed myself through hard times successfully.”

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