given the dates are correct, it's not aften, aften graduated in 04'.
graduated, We are not necessarily going after the whole system. we are going after the people responsible. (There are a few radical individuals like Che or Psy that want the whole TBS system shut down by the govt but we all know that will never happen due to the staggering demand for such schools). it just so happens that the people responsible are 90% of the people who work administration at HLA, particularly buccelato. at the core, his problem was a philosophy of forced indoctrination, a lack of compassion, profit maximization, all combined with a total disregard for ethical business practices. Everything we are upset about is either a direct or indirect result of those four things.
I wouldnt mind if HLA existed. I just dont want Bucci and crew to run it, and things should change drastically. It sits on a very nice piece of land and has alot of potential to be a good school. The problem is it is still, as it has been in the past, primarily a thought-reform center and a school only second. The move away from thought-reform center towards a good school can only occur when the people who carried out or sanctioned the abusive methods are no longer allowed to have any influence in the school. Due to the fact that Bucci owns the school, getting the school shut down is necessary collateral damage.
on another note, "graduated", you have only been out for two years now. give it some time and you will realize much of what you have learned at HLA, both theraputic and scholastic elements, is absolute, total bullshit. sure it may have helped you in a certain way - if you came in with bullimia, anorexia, serious addiction problems to HARD drugs, or a tendency to inflict self-harm, then HLA probably did help you stop doing those things. But they did it while indoctrinating you with BS which will hold you back from being a fully functional adult and experiencing life to the fullest. There are other ways of doing helping people that does not involve brainwashing them with unrelated bullshit.
another issue you should keep in mind is that from my time (97'-98') up untill recently, most of the individuals sent to HLA did not need to be helped, they just had a hard time growing up. they had issues such as smoking pot, arguing with parents, playing computer games too much or loosing their virginity too early for their parent's taste. those kids got sent to HLA not because they needed help, but because the parents were sick of dealing with them and would rather pay to have those kids be someone else's problem, and/or the parents also being highly indoctrinated with socially irresponsible values which they wish to but failed to pass along to their kids. While these poor kids were at HLA, Bucci liked to accept a handfull of VERY bad apples who were violent and court ordered. these bad kids harassed and further abused the other kids, and set bad examples for them. maybe you've heard of the girl who got raped with a tree limb. or the "fight club" in dorm B. or how on numerous occasions girls brought MDMA or cocaine in up their cooter and introduced it to other girls who have never and would have never done it if it wasnt for HLA. Or the time someone convinced a kid to eat jimson weed that was growing in lower left. Or the occasions when kids were sexually assaulted by their roommates. the list goes on and on. so basically there were kids that did not need an institution combined with kids who needed a little therapy, along with a few kids who needed to be in prison or mental hospitals or inpatient rehabs, all in the same school. Bucci tried to take the middle road so he can cater to all demographics to maximize enrollments and therefore profits. You cant cater to all the demographics at once, it just doesnt work.
