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RTP2003:

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This shows the fucked-up mentality of the anti-drug crusader, and, unfortunately, this attitude spills over into many different aspects of our culture today.  I'm not going to go into why this is fucked up.  It's self-evident; if you don't get it, you are part of the problem, just like Sue Scheff.

RTP2003:

--- Quote from: "rules" --- "It is a matter of when safety trumps privacy."

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--- End quote ---

This shows the fucked-up mentality of the anti-drug crusader, and, unfortunately, this attitude spills over into many different aspects of our culture today.  I'm not going to go into why this is fucked up.  It's self-evident; if you don't get it, you are part of the problem, just like Sue Scheff.

Wh??ter:

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--- Quote from: "rules" --- "It is a matter of when safety trumps privacy."

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--- End quote ---

This shows the fucked-up mentality of the anti-drug crusader, and, unfortunately, this attitude spills over into many different aspects of our culture today.  I'm not going to go into why this is fucked up.  It's self-evident; if you don't get it, you are part of the problem, just like Sue Scheff.
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I didn't read anywhere that rules was talking about drugs, RTP2003.  You made that part up.  rules is just trying to add some balance to the discussion, now that he's not a moderator he can express his true pro-program feelings.  He has always defended the industry but when he was a moderator the admins made him stay on the sidelines.  Now he's free to support programs out in the open which I applaud.



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Ursus:
The Oregonian
Nine ex-students sue, say they were mistreated at central Oregon school for troubled teens

Published: Wednesday, July 06, 2011, 3:02 PM
Updated: Wednesday, July 06, 2011, 8:16 PM
By Helen Jung


Attorney Kelly Clark is representing nine former students of the Mount Bachelor Academy, a defunct Eastern Oregon "tough love" camp, who are suing school administrators for systematic abuse, degradation and humiliation. The suit seeks $14 million in damages. Doug Beghtel/The Oregonian

Nine former students of a Prineville-area school for troubled teens are suing the now-defunct school's parent company, saying teachers and staff humiliated, isolated and abused them as part of its curriculum.
 
The complaint, which was filed today in Multnomah County Circuit Court, detailed students' accusations:

One teen, a girl who had suffered sexual abuse as a child, was forced to repeatedly engage in provocative role-playing with older males, the complaint states. Another student, who suffered from asthma, was forced to sleep outdoors in below-freezing temperatures. Staff members also denied him food, sleep and use of a restroom and withheld his asthma inhaler despite asthma attacks that were brought on by their tactics.
 
The suit seeks nearly $14.3 million from the Mount Bachelor Academy, its parent company Aspen Education Group, and Aspen's parent company, CDC Health Group Inc.

The school shut down in December 2009, about a month after receiving an emergency suspension order from the state's Department of Human Services, which had investigated the abuse allegations.

VIDEO: Former students of Mount Bachelor Academy, a defunct Oregon "tough love" camp, sue for $14 million
Teens who attended the Mount Bachelor Academy in the late 1990s, said they were systematically abused and humiliated by school counselors.[/list]

"The so-called treatment," said Kelly Clark, an attorney for the plaintiffs, "was not education, was not treatment and was not therapeutic. We intend to prove that it was abuse, pure and simple."
 
The company issued a statement saying that it had not had the opportunity to review the claims. But it argued that it had resolved its dispute with the state and noted that the state withdrew its emergency order to close the school.
 
That September 2010 settlement notes that the state agreed to withdraw its emergency suspension order because the school was already closed.
 
Clark and his law firm have pressed hundreds of claims against the Catholic Church, the Mormon Church and the Boy Scouts of America. Clark last year won a nearly $20 million judgment from the Boy Scouts of America on behalf of a sex-abuse victim last year.
 
This story will be updated with more information.

-- Helen Jung


© 2011 Oregon Live LLC.

Ursus:
Comments left for the above article, "Nine ex-students sue, say they were mistreated at central Oregon school for troubled teens" (by Helen Jung; July 06, 2011; The Oregonian):


fedup · July 06, 2011 at 5:39PM
I hope they are awarded every penny they are asking for. This type of abuse of authority can not be tolerated and the only message that money grubbing companies like Aspen Education understand are the ones that hit them in the pocketbook!thetruth · July 06, 2011 at 8:39PM
They will probably win some money on this, and the US Supreme Court will at some point probably take up the case and rule (5-4) that the company cannot be held accountable for the actions of its employees.

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