Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools (WWASPS)
2nd try as Magnolia Christian School (Carolina Springs)
Oz girl:
Yeah the more dodgy the area a new housing estate is built in the more pompous the title. Often the reference is to farming i suppose in keeping with the Australian Bush myth. So if you live in a new place with close to no wide open spaces but plenty of mcmantions it might be called andrews farm or bushmans ridge.
But the marketing of schools is a little different as mainstream Australia mostly can be a little suspicious of anything that looks too holy rollerish or overtly relgious. Often a new generically christian school will put grammar in the title to make it sound at bit more old and dignified. The only exception to this are catholic schools which are usually named after saints or theologans but even then their brochures talk more about generic "values" and "traditions" or discipline than god specifically.
For instance many people who complained about and eventually got Mercy Ministries shut down here said that they were aware it was christian but assumed that just meant that the people running it were christian but that the main focus was on mental health services not bible studies. To an American I can see how this would seem almost retardedly naive but it was genuinely how it was marketed here.
seamus:
i dunno if you are a program vet or not, but if you arnt, I hope you understand the distain for thogs named some thing fluffy
but are really crap that I have. That and where my family farm used to be now stands condos,and really high end houses,36 holes of golf,and it all has gimpy names like the reseve,farmington vistas...the belmont etc....makes me so sick inside to think some privleged asshole yuppie fuck lives there.....its all just the same old marketing jive,no matter where ya go.
Ursus:
Comments left for the above article, "School of Troubles: Another chance for abandoned boarding school" (by Kirk Brown; December 10, 2010; Anderson Independent Mail):
yankee writes: December 10, 2010 10:05 p.m.
I can't imagine any person sending their kids to any "school" under his control.
Funny, since it will be a "christian" school, the state has less power to protect the children from harm??StringCheese writes: December 11, 2010 7:05 a.m.
Don't forget the allegations of animal cruelty against Mr. Lichfield, also:
http://www.independentmail.com/news/201 ... nvestigat/
http://www.independentmail.com/news/201 ... er-animal/
http://www.independentmail.com/news/201 ... -property/[/list]
southernbybirth writes: December 13, 2010 2:21 p.m.
Mormons aren't coming to South Carolina Mr. Lichfield. We have been here since the early 1890's when the first missionaries came through from the Southern States Mission. That being said, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints would not condone staff behaviour as stated in this article, threats of violence, cursing etc are not the way we are taught to deal with anyone and certainly not children no matter how wayward.
2010 The E.W. Scripps Co.
Ursus:
Re. this second comment from above:
--- Quote ---StringCheese writes: December 11, 2010 7:05 a.m.
Don't forget the allegations of animal cruelty against Mr. Lichfield, also:
http://www.independentmail.com/news/201 ... nvestigat/
http://www.independentmail.com/news/201 ... er-animal/
http://www.independentmail.com/news/201 ... -property/[/list]
--- End quote ---
See also the following thread for more coverage of these latest allegations of animal cruelty:
* Not only the number of "students" are low at CSA
viewtopic.php?f=44&t=31139
seamus:
I smell Smoke................
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