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Whooter:
Firm data shows the public sector is even worse. Problems within the teen industry are several orders of magnitude less than what we are experiencing in public sector. I could post examples all day long. The list is endless.
Rape:
http://http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/2009_01_10_5th-grade_teacher_faces_child_rape_charges/srvc=home&position=1
A married South Shore teacher was so “obsessed” with a teen boy she had sex with him on his kitchen floor, in the shower and in the living room and it all began when he was 13 years old, prosecutors said today.
The alleged victim, now 16, said they had sex a total of 300 times - “possibly every other day,” according to a police report obtained by the Herald.
Murder:
http://http://www.fultoncountynews.com/news/2009-04-16/Local_(and)_State/Calif_Sunday_School_Teacher_Charged_With_Murder.html
A Northern California woman was charged Tuesday with murdering an 8-year-old girl whose body was found in a suitcase pulled from a pond.
San Joaquin County prosecutors also included in their allegations against Melissa Huckaby the special circumstances of rape with a foreign object, lewd and lascivious conduct with a child and murder in the course of a kidnapping.
The 28-year-old Sunday school teacher was due to be arraigned later Tuesday. Huckaby lived in the mobile home park in the town of Tracy where victim Sandra Cantu also lived.
So what you really want to look at it the success rate of the programs....Is there a risk? Absolutely!! But what is the risk of doing nothing for your child? How safe is he or she on their current path and company?
Its not an easy choice to make, but it gets easier as you are able to gather the facts and balance out your options.
Anonymous:
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So what you really want to look at it the success rate of the programs.... ZERO. In fact, the author of the book they keep touting shows that it has a 100% failure rate
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Troll Control:
The appropriate question is actually "Is it worse to do nothing than to guarantee your child will be abused and neglected by strangers far, far away?"
Sending your kid to MBA is now impossible, as it was forced to suspend operations due to substantiated claims of abuse, neglect and sexualized role-play disguised as "therapy."
Stick with seeking help in your community, by a reputable, licensed facility with reputable, licensed mental healtcare providers. Aspen provides no therapy, as they admitted in court, under oath.
I can see no benefit to sending a child to a known abusive, neglectful Aspen program. By definition, your kid will get no treatment and will be abused and neglected. The state of Oregon found the very program model to be abusive and the staff to be abusive as well.
Sure, there are isolated cases of abuse in public schools, but they are quite literally "one in a million" and perpetrated by a sick individual. At Aspen facilities, the program itself is abusive and they hire uneducated, unlicensed hacks to "work the program." This is a witch's brew of abuse. Because of the abusive model it uses, MBA does abuse 100% of attendees (abusive program model), as found by the state of Oregon. There is no comparison to public schools.
Whooter:
There are presently over 500 programs serving our children and at-risk youth. If you choose to focus on the one or two that are having problems that is your choice. But like the example of the problems in the public school they dont represent the entire industry.
What I typically suggest parents to do is gather as much info as possible...talk to other parents who have had children in programs, talk to the professionals themselves and then weigh this information against how safe your child is in his present environment and path.
The more information a parent can gather on the subject the better.
Troll Control:
Oh, I believe it's more than "one or two." Aspen recently admitted in court that they provide no treatment, so we can count up all of the Aspen facilities and take them off the top as ineffective. How can they be effective when they deliver no services as they admitted in court?
Above and beyond that I believe we have seen several dozen programs shut down in the past few years due to abuse and neglect, sometimes ending in a child's death. We have also seen many facilities that have killed children or abused them still under investigation currently.
So, out of 500 programs (not sure if that's accurate at all), I'd estimate at least 100 have been proven unsafe (all Aspen programs built on the abusive Aspen model, e.g. MBA, ASR, etc) and ineffective and the rest are yet to be investigated.
Even if they weren't dangerous (which I believe they are) then we still have to consider the fact that they are totally ineffective and have no evidence to suggest they are otherwise. Until a clinical study is done and proves efficacy, we all have to assume inefficacy. No program has passed the scientific hurdle into credibility.
In contrast to this, there are tens of thousands of local schools and tens of thousands of local treatment centers which are not abusive or neglectful in any way. This is opposed to the Aspen model which is built upon abusive and humiliating principles, as described by Oregon watchdog officials.
Sorry, but the evidence is clear from state investigations that the claims of efficacy and safety are undenialbly false and unsupported by any facts.
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