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This is Egregious - Where is Maureen Dowd?

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Anonymous:
According to "Our Redeemer Lutheran Church in Irving Texas" 2008 directory, the land line is not Mr. Holmans.  According to the white pages, it is not Mr. Holman's number...

parent:
Looks like I struck a nerve here.  Gotta give it to you, you really have passion about this...but still no life.  You're pathetic.

Anonymous:

--- Quote from: "parent" ---Looks like I struck a nerve here.  Gotta give it to you, you really have passion about this...but still no life.  You're pathetic.
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Well, they have been there, so of course they are emontional.

You would also be if you have relieved it instead of just working with your family therapist which have a job description handling miscommunication. What is miscommunication? That is a really hard question to answer.

As one of our directors wrote in our latest newsletter, even the youth placed in program don't have the whole picture:


--- Quote ---Handling misinformation
Our family representatives are working hard during there years. There is just so much missinformation out there. As the existence of the Internet became more widespread, message boards with former students and their relatives appeared and they are really bad for the industry.

They all seems unhappy and for a parent seeking advise in situation of need they can scare potential customers away.

Of course non likes to be whipped, none likes to be put in chains. No question about that. But they forget that we are doing such things as part of the treatment process— therapy in a therapeutic boarding school is very much about showing the students that they have taken too much for granted.

If we don't make it hard, they have no motivation for joining the play and joy they see the other students having. They have no motivation for working the program. Parents can rest assure that we have developed our program in such a way that the students in the end will work the program—if the parents let us!

So don't let your children use you to manipulate them out of the program—trust your family representative.

Rick Norman
Director—Stalwarts of Support
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I hope that programs some day will allow parents to actually live in a program for an entire week, eating the same food as the youth, sleeping on a wooden board if a matress or a blanket is not earned just to feel how much we atually do just to motivate the youth.

Until that moment, you will not as a parent fully understand why they are so emontional.

Anonymous:

--- Quote from: "parent" ---Looks like I struck a nerve here.  Gotta give it to you, you really have passion about this...but still no life.  You're pathetic.
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Pathetic...  You struck a nerve with a "child' that had a horrible experience, walk with your head up, you should be proud.  Obviously, you have much in common  with the narcissist than owns the place.  The ORS, division of DHR in Georgia has approximately 4900 pages of documents you should have educated yourself with, before sending your child to HLA, in fact any school.  If that is not enough, contact the GAO and ask for their report.  What the GAO agents found backs up the entire lawsuit and then some.Again, the GAO has no prosecutorial powers, but may make recommendations for prosecution.  However, stand in line for that one, as there were many schools that were investigated and those with deaths are at the top of the list.  HLA only had several attempted suicides by hanging(one med-evac in a coma), hazing, rapes(due to negligence), zip ties,cold cocking and the list could go on.  Your child sleeps in mold, that has been painted over and over again(per employees).  There were affivdavits signed by parents, psychologists, counselors, children, hospitals, med transport, police reports; sexual harassment settlements with young counselors(every check),The Chapel Fund(every check), again the list could go on.  Buccellato is fortunate that the suit was filed as a class and negligence could not be filed along with it.  It was only filed as a class because so much was uncovered and so many families were hurt, there seemed to be no other options at the time. Now, possibly a "cluster suit" would have been better. He is fortunate that this did not go to trial.  Buccellato may also be fortunate that the Federal prosecutors via the GAO feel they have bigger fish to fry.

Now ask yourself how do I know all this?  About this time last year, two Federal agents from the GAO came knocking at my door and my life was once again turned upside down, for months, to seek justice and expose the truth.  A glimmer of hope, for those of us that saw the dark side of what you refer to as such a wonderful "institution".  The GAO has it "ALL".


Educate yourself before you sling arrows, otherwise you do sound like an imbecile or one of his lackey's,a toady, bought and paid for with no soul or human compassion left for another.

Anonymous:

--- Quote from: "guest88" ---Thank goodness there is someone giving an effort to counter all this crap about the school.  I am a parent of a child currently enrolled at HLA, and can tell you that the counselors there truly care about what they are doing.  Unlike what I can say for most of the poeple posting on this website.  What they are trying to do to the school is what sends people to Hell when they die.  What sort of life do you think these people have if they are spending it trying to destroy an institution like this.  This is a difficult thing for families to endure and requires a lot of blind trust.  I can tell you I am not the only one that has that for the school and the results in my daughter are outstanding.  My hope is that this school will survive this storm and continue to provide for these families that need them.  Parents, if you are considering sending your child there, I would be glad to talk to you about it.  This has been a media blitz that has hurt this school and it saddens me both for the school and the nice folks that want to destroy it.  I am not on the list and I am sure there are many more that aren't as well that feel the same way.  i would be happy to talk to anyone about this.  214-986-8787
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Try talking to those of us (and there are MANY) who have had kids go through the program.  Everyone I know who had a child there (and this is going back to 2003) can tell you the same thing.  It only LOOKS like your child is getting help. My son, at 22 years old, is worse than when he started HLA. He was 17 when he went there and stayed 2 years.

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