What about info about living conditions, the so-called schooling, possible level system, description of the types the punishments used by the program?`
Living Conditions:
There are male and female dorms on opposite sides of campus. Each dorm has a Dorm Head, they are in charge of the typically 4 other students in the dorm. Everything in the dorms must be left exceptionally clean every morning before leaving the dorm. The dorms are then checked by a higher level student and they see if they can find 3 things wrong with the dorm (pants not folded into thirds, sheets not pulled up over top of comforter, shoes not lined up, toilet tissue not folded into a little triangle at the tip for ease of tugging) then the dorm is in. If the dorm in question is found messy by the designated dorm checker the whole dorm or a single student of being called out and humiliated in front of the entire school at a meal time. Most dorms shared a bathroom with another dorm. They were in the same building connected by a shared bathroom with 3 shower stalls and 3 toilet stalls. every Saturday we were made to deep clean the entire campus and staff members would come in and inspect every square inch of the dorm. Curtis Foster (a peer group leader) repeatedly made me clean the toilets with my comet, a rag and my bare hands, insisting that I get my hand down the flush hole as far as I could so I could get it all clean as he stood over me and watched.
So-Called Schooling
School takes place Monday, Wednesday and Friday. there are 3 classes every school day and you are able to get through your credits faster there because of the schooling through the summer and the shorter terms. Also at night you were required to sign up for 2 creative arts classes. so you were technically taking 5 classes all while learning nothing. the school work there was incredibly easy and dumbed down. the staff that had attemped to revamp the School half of Monarch School quit out of frustration because all of the focus was on the "emotional growth" cirriculum.
when we weren't going to school (which was all but 9 hours per week) we would work in work crews or on our own if we were in trouble. we would attend group sessions twice per week, (each was 2.5 hours long) where students and staff alike would get their scream on at each other. (more specifically would verbally abuse one another and themselves sometimes for the entire duration of the group). we were forced to say things like "i tell myself I'm stupid, ITMI not good enough ITMI [negative this or that specific to the person] (fat, ugly, unwanted, etc.)
Level systems
I don't remember the level systems very well as I only got to 2. not that I wasn't there for a long time, most kids were on level 4 or 5 by that point, I got dropped 2 peer groups and my stay was suddenly going to be 26 months long. luckily I got out after 15 long months, but alas to another fucking place, this time in Utah.
Punishment
The types punishments were immense. I had to dig out a stump that weighed around a ton by myself, I was not allowed to talk to, look at or even acknowledge any of my peers even staff members besides the headmaster Tim Earle and my Peer Group Leader Sarah Loseman for about a week or two at one point. I was usually restricted to talking to only certain students during my time there, they would put me on bans from my friends just to break me down.
The biggest punishment for me though was having to go through the workshops again when they dropped me from my original peergroup. I had to go through all of the brainwashing, boundary breaking and physical and emotional abuse all over again. they would also take away whatever was important to you (guitar, art, books, knitting - you name it) just to keep you down.
We were not allowed to do anything "out of agreement". "out of agreement" or OOA was just monarch bullshit for "against the rules". There was no actual list of what was in or out of agreement, it was just based on what Tim Earle said, but mostly on what the other asshole students and staff would hold you to when you were around them. so pretty much all music was OOA and talking about it, playing it on an instrument, humming, singing or even casually referencing it would get people on your ass instantly saying "you can't say/play/hum/sing/think that". anything out of agreement we did we were supposed to remember and write down on an "OOA list" any time we were asked to do so, so we could then make up for everything on that list by doing "consequences" like doing dishes or digging out stumps.
the real thing they didn't want anyone to talk about were the insights or workshops. these were the same as all of the other cedu type school workshops just with different names. they would lose it if you were to share what happened in the insights. I even found an insight manual one time for the 3rd insight called Unity. I think this is the equivalent of the "friends" workshop but i'm not sure. there was a whole bunch of talk about "no man is an island" and stuff. they have since stopped doing the workshops and from what I have heard (which isn't much) they do group 3 times per week.
if there is any other information on this shithole that would be helpful please let me know as I would be glad to help as well as ask around about it.
