Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > The Troubled Teen Industry

Latest New York Times Piece

<< < (17/17)

MelissaR:
Yah that is semi- relevant. I guess at this point, anything that is going to bring WWASP down is a step in the right direction. I personally believe that there is no healthy teen incarceration, but if it takes a little give and take to get somewhere.....it's better than nowhere.

Antigen:
I just found out that vindictive hate for childern and for his long-term involvement in Bill Gothard's Institute of Basic Life Principles and, oddly enough (or not), this organization just happens to have spread like a bad case of black mold to Australia; you know, where Melvin Sembler used to reside in public housing.

Curiouser and curiouser, eh?



Web pages are like babies -- creation involves a level of enthusiasm that does not necessarily carry over into maintenance.
--Joe Chew
--- End quote ---

Anonymous:
In a 1999 interview with The Rocky Mountain News, however, Kay, who at that time had left the Wwasps organization, criticized its programs and staff. The staff was "a bunch of untrained people," he said, according to the newspaper. "They don't have credentials of any kind."

"We could be leading these kids to long-term problems that we don't have a clue about because we're not going about it in the proper way," he said. "How in the hell can you call yourself a behavior-modification program -- and that's one of the ways it's marketed -- when nobody has the experience to determine: Is this good, is this bad? "

Anonymous:
we would love to hear that tape. bet he regrets that.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[*] Previous page