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FaceKhan:
Maybe they look up a persons phone number and run their credit history to determine the tuition, how progressive of them. :smile:

I almost want to start a program that claims all this toughlove nonsense but is really just an awesome summer camp to get kids away from their abusive parents.

Anonymous:
http://www.strugglingteens.us/staff_bios/s_dias.lasso

Executive Director of: http://www.melaleuca.com/
 :wstupid:

Anonymous:
Has anyone found out why they moved from the NW to Utah?? :???:

Deborah:
Joe Dias -friend of Donny(Donny & Marie) http://www.joelando.org/dandm.html

In an interview with Joe Lando :
Marie: Now you really enjoy -- the show Higher Ground -- what is it based on?

Joe: It?s based on schools that really exist all around the world, um kind of an outward bound program. My character?s name is Peter Scarbrow, he?s a recovering addict, seven years sober and the show picks up seven years into his sobriety while he?s running the school of 150 kids, all high risk teens, kids who have had quite a few problems, incest, and it?s set in the Pacific Northwest, beautiful scenery ...

Marie: And like you say, there are camps like this all over ...

Joe: All over - we visited ---

Marie: We have a clip from the show.

Joe: Great.

Marie: Do you need to set it up or shall we just watch it?

Joe: I think the clip will explain it.

Donny: Okay here we go.

(Shows clip of Peter telling Scott the rules of Mt. Horizon from the first episode ?no drugs, no sex, no inappropriate touching and there?s no violence.?)

Donny: That?s a very interesting concept.

Joe: These girls are going to love that actor in that scene too, Hayden Christensen, he?s just a wonderful actor and a really good guy and I think he?s going to be somebody, somebody big.

Donny: A good buddy of mine, Rob Dias, does this very thing that you?re doing. He has a school for troubled teens, there?s quite a few of them around the country.

Joe: We visited a few in Northern Idaho and a few around here in Southern California.

Marie: Do you base your stories off of true stories?

Joe: All the kids are real stories and we?ve taken a license with what goes on from day to day obviously, but they are all based on real people. My character?s just a collection of people who we met.

Marie: So you have characters come and go and all that kind of thing?

Joe: Well, there?s 150 students and we really center our stories on 6 or 7 of them, Cliffhangers they're called, that?s the group.

Anonymous:
So you're saying Donnie and Marie run this place?  Or is it that Utah is one of the more pro-family States and that's why so many "programs" operate there?  We all know in most states the kids have to agree to go, and that happens only 1 out of a 1000 times.  This is one place I wouldn't send my kid, unless of course, they provide the birth control too!!  Does Melaleuca sell them in a natural form??

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