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Mount Bachelor Academy Shut Down
Anonymous:
Mount Bachelor is an Aspen program? Has anyone confirmed yet that it shut it's doors?
Whooter:
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My question then becomes "Why would any parent anywhere send their child to an Aspen program?" There is no upside to it.
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I can see why you ask this question based on the information that is presented here on fornits.
What you need to look at is the bottom line. If you speak with the kids and parents who have been thru an Aspen program you will see that Apen programs are able to turn an at-risk child around and place them on the right path with an incredible success rate. There is no doubt that they have their hands full trying to cope with the expanding industry. But more importantly they are able to respond and help more and more kids each year. This is the important thing we need to focus on.
Anonymous:
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My question then becomes "Why would any parent anywhere send their child to an Aspen program?" There is no upside to it.
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--- Quote ---What you need to look at is the bottom line. Aspen kills kids.
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http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ss ... nd_di.html
Portland teen collapses and dies during wilderness camp hike
By Steve Beaven, The Oregonian
September 01, 2009, 2:44PM
The Lake County Sheriff's Office is investigating the death of a Portland teen who collapsed during a hike as part of a wilderness camp exercise, a spokesman said today.
Sergey Blashchishen, 16, died Friday after collapsing about 2:30 p.m., said Deputy Chuck Pore. An autopsy was performed on Sunday but the results are incomplete and a cause of death has not been determined, Pore said.
Investigators are trying to find out if Blashchishen, who lived in Northeast Portland, had any medical problems that might have contributed to his death, Pore said. He had passed a physical the day before he died.
Blashchishen was attending the SageWalk wilderness school, a program for troubled teens based in Redmond. He was hiking with a group in northern Lake County between Burns and Bend when he got sick.
"He said he didn't feel good and shortly after that collapsed," Pore said.
The Bureau of Land Management has suspended the permit for SageWalk to operate on BLM land, pending the outcome of the investigation. It could not be confirmed if Blashchishen was on BLM property when he collapsed.
"SageWalk considers student safety our number one priority and takes this incident very seriously," SageWalk Executive Director Mike Bednarz said in a statement.
Lyudmila Blashchishena, Sergey's mother, said she was told that her son vomited and then passed out during the hike, adding that he did not suffer from any medical conditions.
"We are still so shocked," she said. "He always did sports, never had any disease. How could he pass away just from hiking?"
Blashchishen dropped out of Parkrose High School last year, his mother said, and enrolled in the wilderness school on Thursday.
He had worked construction and lived with an uncle before deciding to go to SageWalk.
"He asked me to place him in the boot camp," his mother said. "He really wanted to change his behavior."
--Stephen Beaven; stevebeaven@news.oregonian.com
AuntieEm2:
Yes, Mount Bachelor Academy is owned and operated by Aspen Education Group, the largest conglomerate of schools, which is owned and operated by multi-billion dollar global investment giant CRC Health/Bain Capital.
Follow the money.
Auntie Em
Troll Control:
No, I don't need to interview any Aspen parents to find out how Aspen facilities work. They are being shut down currently in Oregon for neglect and abuse. The states are notoriously bad at moving on items like this. They (state watchdogs) have to have incontrovertible evidence that neglect and abuse have occurred in order to move forward with disciplinary action.
In the case of MBA, they have found many disturbing incidences of neglect and abuse, such as humiliating, sexualized role play disguised as "therapy." If any parent approves of MBA's actions, they are either ignorant of the state's findings, or they simply don't care about their own child.
Sorry, "Guest," but I tend to believe evidentiary findings of abuse investigators over your marketing spin that has exactly zero factual basis to back it up. I understand you are frustrated with the state of affairs at Aspen, but you should be working to shutter these abusive facilities if you really want to help children. Supporting Aspen is tantamount to advocating for child abuse and neglect.
Aspen has taken some big hits recently, and deservedly so. They have committed negligent homicide against children in their care. They have abused children. They have neglected children. This has all been proven factual by the investigation. They admitted under oath that they don't and never intended to provide treatment for anything. For what reason would anyone send their kid to an abusive, neglectful facility that admittedly provides no treatment for anything?
Why would anyone support this family of abusive instiutions? Sadly, the answer seems only to be "for profit."
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