Well, YOU can agree with Aspen's statement on behalf of MBA, as voiced by Aspen CEO Phil Herschman, all you want.
I don’t expect you to come out in this thread and state that we agree.
You have only been doing so for... what is it now, 5 pages in this thread alone? I'm sure you can get a little more mileage out of that paragraph with a lil more chopping and rearrangement, not to mention your fancy footwork with hats and rabbits. And goodness, you now have another journalist whose name you can attribute your creative endeavors to.
Oh, Ursus, calm down no one is chopping or rearranging. Its called looking closely at the report and quoting people. If you repost the article everytime you quote it no one would read it. We can quote the author, Phil Herschman or Kelley-Siel's because they are the players in this whole thing. Why does it bother you when people quote them?
But I think you'll have a bit more difficulty finding others who agree with you, especially when they are aware of, or perhaps just now realize, the kinds of deceptions you apparently can't help yourself from indulging in.
Lol, what deception? I think you are losing it Ursus. My quotes come directly from the article you posted here verbatim. There is no deception.
Of course, DHS had evidence of abuse.
They thought they did in 2009. MBA even agrees to the fact that an investigation was warranted based on the information that DHS had at the time. All parties agree here.
What they backed down on was a time line of when it occurred.
They backed down when various people threatened to sue them and they took a look at the evidence they had. DHS will never back down on children being abused. How could they sleep at night? They realized that they made a mistake and no abuse occurred.
They did so in return for MBA and Bitz dropping four lawsuits that they had initiated against DHS, and for Sharon Bitz's obligatory completion of a a two-year course in child/adolescent psychology. Clearly they have a pretty dim view of Ms. Bitz's comprehension of what constitutes a healthy behavioral treatment program for children.
Exactly, if DHS actions had caused the state to lose millions of dollars in damages then Kelley-Siel would have lost her job fairly quickly. The state saw the mistake, stepped in, and brought some reality into the situation.
Incidentally, speaking of hats and rabbits, who ever said anything about "handing back a license?" Mount Bachelor Academy was closed to their not complying with the conditions of re-opening.
The order to suspend the license was lifted by DHS.
It continues to stay closed. They have no plans of re-opening. If they want to open another school at the same location, they'll probably have to start that licensing process over again. But that's for another thread if and when that time ever comes. From the above article by Jason Chaney, emphasis added:
As far as the future of MBA is concerned Kelley-Siel's DHS statement said that [the] school is closed and, "by all accounts, will remain closed."
Herschman does not dispute that MBA is closed, but he expressed the intent to install a new school on the property at some point.
Whenever a school closes it needs to be brought up to the latest standards in order to reopen. If you look at an old local grade school you would notice that the school is barely complying with standards and many standards (classroom square feet , handicap ramps and bathrooms, ) are not complied with because of space constrictions and therefore the school is grandfathered from many requirements. But the minute the school closes down(even temporarily) it cannot reopen until it is fully upgraded to 2010 standards. So you never see local grade schools closing for a year or two to accommodate expansion and contraction of student flow otherwise they would never be able to reopen under state guidelines.
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