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Anonymous:
Carey - where did you get the idea that you couldn't have contact with your child? Isn't there unlimited letter writing and unless there's a legal reason why you can't see them, you can... unless you follow their recommendation that if it's important to your kid to get the points to earn the visit you'll wait? I do think that waiting can be a long process, so maybe they'll change that recommendation?
Anonymous:
Carey,
"I would NEVER leave my child in a place that tells me that I am not allowed to have contact with them."
I wouldn't either. I was never told that I couldn't have contact with my child. I, as many others, thought that we were sending them to a boarding school. A wonderful place where they would experience wonderful things.
Remember, when you call up any of the WWASP affiliates and tell them what you are looking for in a school for your child, that they will lie to you and tell you that this one or that one is the perfect place for your child.
I didn't fall for a "program". I was told that these were boarding schools with great opportunities for your child. That is why we are trying to hold WWASP accountable for their marketing. They list themselves as boarding schools, military schools, etc.
I guarantee, that if you were looking for a place for your child, and you would have talked with WWASP as many of us did and talked with all the parent references(not knowing that they were kool-aid drinkers), that you to may have sent your child to a WWASP school.
We all should learn from our mistakes. Don't put us down for what we did, work with us to make sure this doesn't happen to others.
MelissaR:
What do you mean, "Kool Aid drinkers?"
Carey:
--- Quote ---I wouldn't either. I was never told that I couldn't have contact with my child.
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You must have signed a different contract than the one I saw. The one I saw was presented in court and it outlined what had to happen before communication was allowed. (I don't consider letters to be an adequate form of communication, especially given the nature of these programs. There is to high of a risk for abuse in programs that are not monitored by any outside child protective agencies.)
--- Quote ---I, as many others, thought that we were sending them to a boarding school. A wonderful place where they would experience wonderful things.
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You have got to be kidding. You read the contract and you thought you were sending them to a regular boarding school. Come on. You are only fooling yourself.
[ This Message was edited by: Carey on 2003-09-08 13:41 ]
Antigen:
It's a reference to Jim Jones and the purpole kool-aid used as a medium for the poison the People's Temple folks drank.
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
--William Osler
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