I'll be polite here. These responses (pg49 & Guest) are incredibly rude and baseless. Yes, I did research HLA. No I didn't "drag my child down with me". My child was enrolled in HLA on the advice of education counselor, after other solutions didn't work out. When you have a child who is acting out and failing school, a good parent will do what ever they have too to help them succeed, and now my child is well on their way to do just that. It appears your parents did the same, but maybe you need some retraining. I have always been there for my child and still am. I’ve gone above and beyond what most parents have done for their children. My child has matured and is leading a good life, better than you I suspect. My beef was the way HLA handled the insurance company, by lying to them, and then having the insurance company tell me about the non qualified counselors. My biggest mistake was the poor attorney I selected. My financial state was not totally caused by HLA; however the added stress by their actions isn’t making life any easier.
To pg49 & Guest, I suggest you mature a lot more before you make senseless and rather stupid comments.
Obviously, you didnt research HLA well enough. Obviously, you made a poor and hasty choice. Obviously, you listened to a salesman without getting advice from an unbiased third party. Obviously, you allowed your kid to be abused in a corrupt institution. Obviously, you were desperate and selfish, wanting what you want when you wanted it. Obviously, you sucked at being a parent to begin with, and HLA didnt change anything. Obviously, you're poor choices (of school, then attorney, as a parent) prove that you just want the easy way out of things and have little forethought. You were swindled not because you you're a poor random victim and it could happen to anyone; you were swindled because you made yourself a target. You have not been there for your child, and you have not gone above and beyond, based on the simple fact that you chose to send your kid to HLA and kept him there ignorantly the length of the program. also, for some reason, the line "My beef was the way HLA handled the insurance company, by lying to them, and then having the insurance company tell me about the non qualified counselors." just doesnt make any logical sense to me. So they lied to the insurance company....and the company (AND YOU!) failed to investigate HLA's claims until it was too late? that doesnt sound like something an insurance company would do...companies are pretty on point about making sure their claims are legit from the beginning.
I will repeat once more: you dug your own grave. You're a piece of shit parent that did not think through their actions thoroughly enough in the desperate attempt to save your child that you fucked up to begin with. If you were a good parent, you would not have had to send your kid away, and you would not be in this situation.
and by the way, i'm doing just fine. Just because i use bad language and grammar when i'm angry at imbeciles on a web forum doesnt mean i need to be "retrained". I attended HLA around the time your son did, I now work in one of the top 10 law firms in the country. with my salary combined with my investments, i could pay all of your debts off ten times over and still have enough to buy a mansion for every member of my family. I could also take on your case and probably win it, i specialize in tort, but i have no desire to do so because it's your own damn fault. I have two toddlers, and they are doing just fine. And i will never, ever send them away anywhere unless they start smoking crack (which they never will, because i know the right way to prevent that, and it's not total abstinence and imposed stigma on all drugs..), and without investigating the living shit out of wherever they are going. If my kid is acting out and failing school, i'll know how to deal with it without shelling out a hundred thousand odd dollars to some rednecks in north georgia, or anyone anywhere for that matter. It's not a tough problem, as long as you dont shoulder all the responsibility on your kid and change the way YOU, as a parent behave, treat and support your kid. I will never have a need for a kiddie-repair warehouse because i am educated and responsible enough to know how to raise a kid on my own, and deal with their problems as they come along.
It's not the troubled teen industry. it's the troubled parent industry. the troubled parent industry makes their money by convincing troubled parents that it's all the kid's problem, the kid's fault. I'm not trying to say the kid is not responsible for his own actions, they are, but the actions come around as a direct result of bad parenting. In my opinion, if thats not the case....then we might as well get rid of the laws regarding minors and the age of consent, and allow anyone at any age to vote, sign contracts, etc. You are/were responsible for your kid's actions until they turn 18, practically and legally. the sooner you get that through your head, the better.
