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Anonymous:
Hey, any mom (or dad) that gets on a plane to go get their kids is a big-time-hero in my book! Kudos to these moms for fighting for their children.

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MelissaR:
I don't understand why people are not grasping the concept the High Impact is owned by WWASP. If it is advertised on their websites, referred to by directors and family reps, and threatened by staff, what other proof do you need? They share the same marketing company and billing company, BOTH OF WHICH ARE FULLY OWNED AND OPERATED BY WWASP! How nice of WWASP to arrange billing for you while they're beating the living hell out of your kid...Of course they'll take your money! Why would WWASP re-route their money somewhere else? Hell no! If it looks like a duck, and acts like a duck, it most certainly is a duck! I know for a fact that High Impact is owned by WWASP because the *dandy* folks up at Spring Creek Lodge explained it to parents that way. Since WWASP already had parents *trust*, of course they would be willing to place their child in another *loving*, *caring*, WWASP institution. Wake up people!!!!!

Anonymous:
Carey was looking for a solution and found one (actually this is a bit presumptious because I don't know if her decision was based on any trouble with her sons). Not everyone has an option of sending their children to another parent but it would seem to be the logical thing to do. The summer my son went to TB I sent his younger brother to stay with my parents for the summer. It was the smartest thing I could have done. It redirected him and when he came back home we were all behaving better.

Back to the High Impact topic:
There was no need to market HI as heavily as the other wwasp programs because most of the HI inmates were sent there from another wwasp program. The marketing was all done within the program. The majority of the HI students went from a wwasp facility to HI and then back to a wwasp facility. The entire time that HI was open there were many parents who posted on the bbs regarding HI but never did anyone from wwasp ever post anything stating that HI was not part of their network. It has only been since HI closed that the denials started.

Judy

Carey:

--- Quote ---Why do the kids that were at Dundee say they had a library, but Ashley on Inside Edition say they had no books? Carey?
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They had a library, so to speak, consiting of books that had been donated from various sources. They did not have text books.  They had photo copies of text books that the kids worked from.  Maybe that is what Ashley meant by her statement that there were no books.


[ This Message was edited by: Carey on 2003-09-25 14:20 ]

Anonymous:

--- Quote ---On 2003-09-25 13:28:00, Anonymous wrote:

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--- Quote ---well, is that what you did when you shipped them to their dad to handle. that isnt fighting; that is giving up. neither here nor there. you are right, you are not a hero,
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So does this mean that when parents divorce and the kids go to live with one of their parents, the other parent "has shipped them off to the other to handle?"  I don't quite think so.  I did not give up, never have, never did, never will.



Now, on the other hand, that must be what you did.  Except instead of sending them off to live with the other loving parent, you sent your child to live with abusers.  

 Boy you must hurt deep down inside.  If I were you and I had sent my child to live with those who abused him I too would be pretty mad.  The only difference is that I would be mad at myself and not others.

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I am not the person you are responding to but I have seen similar posts from you and others  before so I am answering this time.

Yeah, it does hurt deep down inside. Actually, I am mad at myself AND others. Your comments can't hurt me. You can't say anything I haven't said to myself. No one can judge me as harshly as I judge myself. I live with my own guilt and am astounded at my child's ability to forgive me. It is because of his forgiveness and wanting to get on with his life that I have to move beyond the guilt and pain to be a mom he can turn to and trust. It's about him and the other teens, not me.

Judy

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