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Carey:
--- Quote ---Does anyone else find it interesting that the two separate unhappy parents Tim reported on in the article are both lawyers?
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I find this very interesting. I have to wonder, what kind of attorney would sign the contract WWASP school's provide? I am not an attorney, yet I could see that any parent who signed it was basically signing over their rights to be informed about the decisions being made regarding their child.
Anonymous:
What I took from reading the NT Times article, noticing the comments from the two attornies,was that people much smarter,better educated than I ,they too were duped and suckered into the superior Marketing and salesmanship of Teen Help.
Vulnerable parents are not reading adequetly at the time they are "reading" the contract.I know we didnt. Teen Help depends on that fact.
Who would think a Speciality school could be so cruel.
Not a good excuse but a real one.
What I have taken from my Teen Help /WWASP experience is to not trust at all ever again.
Carey:
Well if anyone should have known what they were getting into, it should have been the attorneys. But then I suppose better educated does not necessarily mean smarter. I suppose their common sense could have been missing as well. The contracts state that the people making the decisions (at the programs) about whether or not a child should be put in OP were not trained or qualified to determine if or not it is/was necessary.
I think that there are alot of angry parents who paid a lot of money and got very little in return. Too bad they did not do a better job reading what they were signing. Maybe they too should be held accountable for neglect.
Falling for the marketing is one thing, falling for the contract is another. The contract I saw spells it all out.
I wander if either of the attorneys hired escorts?
[ This Message was edited by: Carey on 2003-09-08 08:38 ]
Anonymous:
I'm with Carey, "stupid is as stupid does". Also, how about that "smart" parent in Canada who drugged her kid into submission so she would go "willingly" with her transporters into a program? Why didn't the parents just escort their child themselves since she was clearly in no condition to resist?
:silly:
Anonymous:
--- Quote ---On 2003-09-08 06:25:00, Carey wrote:
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--- Quote ---Does anyone else find it interesting that the two separate unhappy parents Tim reported on in the article are both lawyers?
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I find this very interesting. I have to wonder, what kind of attorney would sign the contract WWASP school's provide? I am not an attorney, yet I could see that any parent who signed it was basically signing over their rights to be informed about the decisions being made regarding their child.
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someone desperate to help their child. and, that someone upon further reflection, realized its a big scam.
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