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Re: what were some of those staff members first and last names

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LucyMax:
I remember an Annie from Lauderdale. She was younger than me by a few years and I was 16. There was Susie, Doreen (redhead, skinny), Penny (?), some chick I can't remember her name, but remember her face. She sat w/me at my first open house when I talked with my mother. I said something like, "I'm only supposed to say good things, right?"

The open house--much later but I was still on the friggin' front row--was when I mouthed off. I was quickly escorted out of the room. Don't remember who the staff was. There were two of them, my parents and me in a back room. I was threatened with MacClenney if I didn't stay. I stayed. Escorted back to the meeting, told the audience I was sorry. Doreen got pissed when they broke out into applause. That was when I learned to play the game.

I wish I knew last names.

none-ya:
Lucymax wrote:

--- Quote ---I was threatened with MacClenney if I didn't stay.

--- End quote ---

What was MacClenney?

LucyMax:
MacClenny (I misspelled it before) is the state hospital (mental institution). It's near Jacksonville, in the town of MacClenny. The real name of it is Northeast Florida State Hospital. We always just called it MacClenny.

none-ya:
I remember reading an old post, that had a list of staff. Can't remember , gregfl or Antigen or who posted it. Still looking....

Ursus:

--- Quote from: "stackjones" ---if they sent you to the state mental hospital, you would have had to be evaluated by a doctor.

no doubt the doctor would have found you to be -- what you were, a normal teenage kid.

and sent you home.
--- End quote ---
Perhaps not. (Your experience may have been different.)

Around that time (and still), there were a number of insurance scams going on where juvenile delinquents were locked up in psychiatric institutions in lieu of Juvie ... for the precise amount of time that their parents' health insurance would cover.

Funny how that works.

The courts were in on it. To some judges, this option represented a "kinder, gentler form of rehabilitation" than the more structured severity of a jail setting.

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