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Ridge Creek - Official Shill Thread
Whooter:
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--- Quote from: "Brain-dead RCS Parent" ---Sending him away to RCS 24 months ago was the hardest decision my husband and I ever made!
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24 months in kiddie jail, lady? The "program" is only 12 months and you made your kid do a "double"? Fascinating and disturbing at the same time...
This goes to show that RCS will keep a kid as long as the parents keep paying.
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--- Quote from: "Brain-dead RCS Parent" --- We were at our wits end and our son completely dropped out of school prior to going to RCS and we were elated when his grades slowly started to improve after a few months on campus. We never thought he would go to college but RCS motivated him and he decdied on his own to work hard to improve his academic standing. We just cannot thank you enough..
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Seems like an improvement.
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Jill Ryan:
--- Quote from: Whooter ---Jill, Ridge Creek School is a school. It just does not fit cleanly into the states categories because they have kids coming from all over the world. Some of these kids only stay for 6 months. The public school system in Georgia has kids go to high school for 4 years . The kids in RCS may go for 6 months or longer but they receive schooling while they are there, but they are not a 4 year institution.
School definitions:
http://http://www.thefreedictionary.com/school
An institution for the instruction of children or people under college age.
http://http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/school
an organization that provides instruction: as
a : an institution for the teaching of children
RCS is not considered a "Private" school:
http://public.doe.k12.ga.us/ci_exceptio ... ateSchools
RCS is not considered a "Private" school by GAPSAC:
http://www.gapsac.org/index.php?option= ... 4&Itemid=3
RCS is not considered a "Public" school:
http://lumpkincounty.schoolinsites.com/?PN=Schools2
RCS is not considered a "Charter" school:
http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/pea_charter.aspx
RCS is not considered a "State" school:
http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/pea_stateschools.aspx
Find " State Certified" teachers:
http://www.gapsc.com/"
Ridge Creek School is a "Child Caring Institution" recognized as such by the State of Georgia with an educational program in effect that is currently SACS certified. SACS, again certifies many adjunct programs such as one promoted by the Department of Corrections. RCS was afforded Stimulus funds as a "Child Caring Institution," grant status deemed through DJJ , not as a public or private school. A private Child Care facility (CCF), a private Child Care Institution(CCI).
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Whooter:
They are teaching kids, though, Jill. The state does not have a category for Therapeutic boarding school. Traditional boarding schools take kids for 4 years. Ridge Creek school takes them for a variable length of time and from different states and countries.
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Jill Ryan:
THE STATE MOST CERTAINLY DOES HAVE A CATEGORY - "CCI, CCF, CCOP, DJJ CONTRACT PROVIDER."
SACS HAS ACCREDITATION AND STIPULATES CATEGORY:
http://http://www.coe.uga.edu/gac/members/2010%20...%20t_2010.pdf
GEORGIA ACCREDITING COMMISSION, INC.
2010-2011
EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES WITH SPECIAL PURPOSES
CONTACT: Executive Director for further explanation if needed.
Carvin Brown, Ed.D.
1860 Barnett Shoals Road
Suite 103, PMB 594
Athens, GA 30605-6821
carvin@uga.edu
706-353-7090 (Phone)
Member Schools: Broken down into Sections for GAC Accredtation
Public Schools
Public Pre-Kindergartens
Private Schools
Private Pre-Kindergartens
Educational Agencies with Special Purposes
RIDGE CREEK SCHOOL FALLS UNDER THIS JURISDICTION
Non-Traditional Educational Centers
Standards for Educational Agencies With Special Purposes
http://http://www.coe.uga.edu/gac/standards/agencies.html
Whooter:
Its "EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES WITH SPECIAL PURPOSES". They educate the kids which is a school. If RCS enrolled the kids for 4 years then they would fit the categories defined by the state of Georgia. But they are a school which takes kids from various stages of highschool and they stay there from 6 months on up. We both know that a typical highschool or boarding school takes kids for 4 years so the RCS doesnt fall under the same rule structure as a typical boarding school. Programs in Massachusetts has the same problem. The state requires each student to pass an MCAS test prior to moving on to the next grade. But kids who come in from out of state may be on a different track.. maybe they don't learn about government in junior year, maybe they learn it in the senior year in the state they are from. So Massachusetts standards do not align completely with other state standards.. so this means that they need to create a special category so that programs can exist and teach the kids in the state.
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