Would it surprise you to learn it was a NATSAP-certified shit pit?
Yup...NATSAP's "certifications" mean nothing. They're a self governing organization and basically just another marketing arm for the TTI.
It shouldn't. This still happens today. Restricting phone contact and telling parents that children are just "manipulating" when they complain of abuse lead nowhere else. There is no legitimate purpose behind restricting and censoring communication. This is how abuse is concealed long enough for parents' bank accounts to be drained. Nobody wants believe they have done such a thing to their own child. I find your defense and denial of child abuse on this forum extremely offensive and know I won't be the first to ask you to fuck off.
It was really, really difficult for my father to even begin to come to terms with it. He considers himself such a strong and intelligent person (and he is) and it's got him reeling now that he's starting to understand the devastating consequences of his choices. At least he's starting now though and he's genuinely trying, so I gotta give him that.
And you're absolutely right. It is still happening today. Same shit, different wrapper is how I refer to it. All these "schools" that use those same bullshit LGAT type methods of attack therapy, isolation and "positive peer pressure" are nothing more than re-education camps and thought reform institutions. The Senate (Sam Ervin specifically I believe) compared what was done to the kids at the Seed to what some of the Korean war POW's were exposed to as far as thought reform. The sleep deprivation, isolation from the outside world, all the thought stopping techniques etc. And Straight was supposed to be the "kinder, gentler" version of the Seed but ended up being the exact opposite, especially after Newton got ahold of it. Unfortunately, that's what seems to happen to most of the places that get shut down for abuse or close their doors because they've lost so much revenue amidst abuse allegations.....they just re-open under a different name, promising that "things are different
this time....honest they are". It's such crap.