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Anonymous:
probably beacuse it was a burden on everyone.

1. they had to pay for extra staff to do it.
2. from my understanding, the maintenance shack by the sac/lake was turned into a pool?
3. restrictions had to carry the sheets up the hill. given the load is 100+lb per bin, even with two kids per bin the load was tremendous considering they had to walk up that hill and the bins barely had handles.
4. doesnt it just make more sense for kids to wash their own shit?

i guess they have streamlined their operations. with the legal expenses and low attendance, they cant afford the same cushy and superfluous extras they had circa 2004 anymore. having 120 staff doesn't make sense  when you have 15 kids on campus. i bet things are all sloooooooowwwwww on campus now, like things used to be over the breaks but worse.

TheWho:

--- Quote from: "tsk" ---there were laundry rooms in each of the dorms, around ten washers and ten dryers. kids washed all their own clothing.

the sheets and towels were done by a maintenance staff in a separate laundry room in the maintenance shack, in bigger heavy-duty commercial machines. the staff wore gloves, aprons, and surgical masks when handling the dirty sheets.
--- End quote ---

Maybe it has to do with the sheets being interchangable where as your clothes are just worn by you so there is no cross contamination. Or maybe they need to insure the sheets are clean so they do them separately, maybe there is a state requirement that kids need clean sheets periodically and this is the only way to insure this by having them strip their beds.

RobertBruce:
When has Buchi ever cared about state requirements? The only reason he would have changed the policy was if he was forced to, or if it somehow benefited his bottom line. When I was locked up we had washing machines all in the dorms. I'm not sure what was later refered to as "the restriction shack", but we definitely didnt have a pool. There was a tennis court that no one was ever allowed to use. Right next to it was a converted green house that had been used for restrictions until it was decided that was too comfortable, so an open air pavilion was built on the opposite side of the lack where the kids could be kept out in the elements, regardless of weather. Somehow this too was deemed more theraputic.

Anonymous:
when i was there, there were two buildings down at the lake.

one was a larger building (~2000sqft) which was originally a dorm, then converted to an indoor pool, then back to a regular building again because the pool was too high maintenance. that building was called the SAC (Student Activity Center) and had a tv, some game tables, some arcade machines, and a jukebox. there was a shack next to it (~300-500 sqft) closer to the tennis court which housed landscaping equipment, tennis equipment, fishing equipment, and the sheets laundry. the pavilion at the lake there was never really used for restrictions, it was used as a lounge area on weekends for the student body, and for events like a watermelon-eating contest.   the current pool was built somewhere near the lake where the SAC was, but i'm not sure whether or not and which buildings the pool replaced.

there were three other areas that were used more extensively by restrictions: lower left field, where the stream diversion was built and the kids gradually cleared the field further to the "left" of trees to make room for more field space. problem was they didnt count on the field swamping up sans the trees eleven months out of the year. There was a shack with no insulation - just a plywood box with a roof and windows along with a fireplace, that was located by lower left when taking the trail up to RCI, but making a right around the lake. further down that trail was a pavillion in the woods that was used for restrictions also; both structures were there for isolating the bad kids during grandparents day, graduation, dogwood fest, and any other events or emergencies where members of the 'public' were on campus.

Anonymous:
The problem with  HLA is unlicensed persons  dispensing narcotic drugs to minors.

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