Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > The Troubled Teen Industry
Lets get back to WWASPS
Anonymous:
P.S. to the anonymous WWASPS parent who wrote:
"I found this site, and it is so full of pain. I wish there was something I can do to help, really. People like Joe and Sue Scheff are here to teach us lessons about what we are willing to accept in our lives. You don't like WWASPS, and that's okay. Do what works for you. It's all a part of your own healing process."
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1. Exactly what lessons are "Joe and Sue Sheff"
teaching others about their lives?
2. The only pain I see is expressed anger and frustration from people who have a legitimate gripe. What are you NOT seeing?
3. Educational consultants typically get paid by the parent for "services rendered" --- not by the institution as compensation/reward for putting "heads in the beds". Do you get the message?
4. There is nothing funny about making jokes at the expense of other people's thoughts and feelings. Do you know the definition for the word H U M I L I A T I O N?
:smokin:
Antigen:
--- Quote ---What do you recommend parents do to protect themselves and their child from the potential to fall victim to the same kind of exploitation?
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I think the legal term is "due diligence"
Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.
--Mohandas K. Gandhi
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Anonymous:
"It's horrible that all these WWASP schools are being targeted because of one ex-director who was only concerned about numbers"?
To whom are you referring? Amberly Knight, whose letter to the Costa Rican authorities complained about ABUSE and complained that WWASP only wanted to make money?
What about the closures of five other facilities following similar abuse/fraud accounts?
What about the literally hundreds of accounts of abuse at WWASP schools posted on the net and in the media, all from different families?
Look at the accounts of the WWASP experience from kids who say it was wonderful: they aren't particularly different from those who say it's terrible, it's just that the promoters say that the abusive treatment was helpful!
If you think isolation, lying on the floor for weeks [admitted to be done at TB by Jay Kay], brutal, punitive use of restraints, not being allowed to look at members of the opposite sex, not being allowed to speak openly, food and sleep deprivation, constant daily verbal humiliation including calling girls sluts and boys faggots, complete lack of privacy and lack of access to communication with parents and medical care are "treatment" that makes kids better, just wait a few years....
Anonymous:
I'm confused, is this the same person (Lyn Pretzfeld) referred to in A PARENT'S TRUE STORY published on the Parents Universal Resource Experts (aka PURE) website:
Teen Help Southeast (Florida)
http://www.youthplacement.com
PURE
http://www.helpyourteens.com
Anonymous:
The website doesn't say what programs they refer to, only that they refer to behavior modifications programs in the United States and abroad. My question is do parents pay a fee to this firm for their placement services or does the referring agent get paid a "finder's fee" from programs for referring clients to them? At the very least, it seems to me this information should be disclosed somewhere on these websites.
http://www.youthplacement.com/faq.htm#faq1
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