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Elan will be officially closed as of 4/1/11

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DannyB II:
Elan is closing due to a negative campaign from the internet according to Sharon Terry, Owner of Elan.
http://www.sunjournal.com/city/story/1004547

heretik:

--- Quote from: "DannyB II" ---Elan is closing due to a negative campaign from the internet according to Sharon Terry, Owner of Elan.
http://www.sunjournal.com/city/story/1004547
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Elan School closing after Web campaign to shut it down
By Judith Meyer, Managing Editor/days
Published Mar 23, 2011 3:29 pm | Last updated Mar 23, 2011 3:43 pm

The Elan School, a private for-profit boarding school for troubled teens in Poland, has been forced to close, according to owner and Executive Director Sharon Terry of Casco.
- Amber Waterman/Sun Journal
  Elan: Torment or Treatment? (2002 Sun Journal story)

POLAND – The controversial Elan School will close next week.

The private for-profit boarding school for troubled teens has been forced to close, according to owner and Executive Director Sharon Terry of Casco, due to “declining enrollment and resulting financial difficulties.”

The school was opened in 1970 by psychiatrist Dr. Gerald Davidson and businessman Joseph Ricci.

Terry, who is Ricci’s widow, points to an ongoing Internet campaign on the site Reddit.com launched by an unknown person, who goes by name "Gzasmyhero," as the cause for much of the school’s current financial distress.

The Web campaign alleges the school engaged in punitive tactics, like isolating students for long periods of time, requiring students to scream at other students as part of the disciplinary program, and limiting student contact with parents.

“The school has been the target of harsh and false attacks spread over the Internet with the avowed purpose of forcing the school to close,” Terry said. And, despite several recent investigations conducted by the Maine Department of Education that Terry said have vindicated the school, “the school has, unfortunately, been unable to survive the damage.”

On March 1, Elan received a renewed academic accreditation and therapeutic certification from the National Independent Private Schools Association that is set to expire in June 2014. The school is also a member in good standing of the Maryland-based National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs.

Perhaps the school's most notorious student was Michael C. Skakel, nephew of Robert Kennedy's widow, Ethel Skakel Kennedy.

Skakel was convicted in 2002 of the murder in 1975 of 15-year-old Martha Moxley. Both lived in an exclusive section of Greenwich, Conn., and she was found beaten to death with a golf club.

While always a suspect in the Moxley murder, Skakel wasn't arrested until years later when two of his former classmates at the Elan school testified that he had confessed to them while at the school.

Elan classmate Gregory Coleman testified that Skakel bragged, "I'm going to get away with murder. I'm a Kennedy."

Skakel had been sent to the school in 1978 after a drunken driving conviction, and he was there two years.

Skakel is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence in Connecticut, and is eligible for parole in 2013.

Ursus:
"The school has been the target of harsh and false attacks..."
—Sharon Terry, Owner of Elan[/list][/list]
  :eek: False?

Is she that deluded, or is she trying to rub salt in folks' wounds?

Perhaps she's just trying to save face, when all is said and done...

liarsexposed:
Good Morning
Elan is closing as a result of the many truths exposed about them over a long period of time.
I would like to think that the closure is in no small way,as a result of many of us that told the truth. Over and over,and for years.These criminals finally have finally been told that the usual bribe money and influencing others could no longer happen as it has in the past. They simply do not have the money to do what they used to do. Buying a School Superintendant would have to be expensive. A senator,or other members of the Maine political circle have decided for Sharon, that the heat is now too great,and that getting caught could be catostrophic to their own careers. They could no longer take the risks they have taken in the past.
Open or closed.. They will all burn in hell
Anyone who has written a testimonial,their story etc is a large part of Elan's demise
I congratulate you all,and hope that this provides some closure to the hundreds of people elan has affected
Peace
A

DannyB II:

--- Quote from: "Ursus" ---"The school has been the target of harsh and false attacks..."
—Sharon Terry, Owner of Elan[/list][/list]
  :eek: False?

Is she that deluded, or is she trying to rub salt in folks' wounds?

Perhaps she's just trying to save face, when all is said and done...
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As you know Ursus I worked there for a short period of time. Sharon Terry got there in late 77 or early 78 and she was a typist. From this point to now is a major leap. All I can still see is this naive young divorcee gobbling Joe ego and believing everything he said. Of course once he died she replaced Joe with Marty and Jeff. The three of them made this pathetic promise to Joe to continue the abuse if anything should happen to him. Well they honored this promise for another decade or so.
Sharon is deluded because she wants to be. Just keep giving me money and I will look the other way.
Oh and Ursus have you seen her face lately it isn't worth saving....:rofl:

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