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Desisto School
86 farm rioter:
becky,
hey it was good to read your post.i knew all the people you mentioned.some were really good freinds of mine.back then i was known as lee.but my real name is eli(ay-lee).i do have some info about the school.i also am thinking about a trip to fla.iwould really like to get in touch with you.ive tried looking up some others like my freinds jason and nicole,.but was unsuccssessful.i can't figure out any way to get in touch off this message board without leaving my email.so here it is e_loman@yahoo.com.i look forward to hearing from you soon.
take care,
eli
TM1992:
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--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---i read that Desisto was forced to close after a student swallowed razer blades and wasnt taken to the hospital for quite a while.
Whoever wrote this qoute is ABSALUTLY correct...It is so true as to why the experiances were different....bravo for expressing, so well, what I want to write too!!!!! PS I was there in 93.....
People report different experiences becasue their experiences were different. It was a "lord of the flies" experience. The strong emotionally integrated kids ganged up on the weaker kids. The people who were strong only suffered the physical deprivations which were tough but not genuinely terrible. While the kids who were marked for bullying lived in a horror land where they would clean all day and then get screamed at by about 19 kids their age about what discusting horrible worthless people they were.
I figured out the key to this "diverging experience" issue by reading the post of one of my contemporaries Heather. She came to my house with 1 other girl and 5 other men and dragged me into a van. She was the biggest bully there. I remember her ordering around the younger girls (she looked about 21) with such gusto. She "silenced" another girl and then would announce she was kidding the girl would speak and Heather would yell at her and "silence" her again. SHe really got off on confronting people. Anyway, she looks back at this time fondly because like a nazi who enjoyed ordering around jews she enjoyed ordering around and having complete poewer over other kids. Power is something people are really attracted to and some people really relish it when they get it.
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The place obviously changed so much and so much for the worse over the years. The things you describe are like night and day from the school I went to (late Lake Grove/early Desisto). So many different concepts and rules, new boys, regular boys, levels, intensives, living at the mansion, sheeting, farms, punching, organized bullying, confined or starved for long periods etc. etc. .... wow, none of that shit went on in my day.
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Bellina:
Today has been a rough day. I was watching Intervention and one of the subjects had went to some Desisto like schools which prompted me to look up the hell I survived in 1993. This was the same year Saiz went to jail for molesting students. I found the demons that have been tucked away all those years. I didn't blend well with the Desisto School. The brainwashing didn't work on me. This did not bode well with the staff or Michael. All of the stories are true. From the very first day I came to the day I left I was leashed. I never took one shower or went to the bathroom without someone watching. Hah that was when I was actually allowed a shower. I was eventually 24hour leashed. I forgot the term for that. I remember a girl sleeping by each window and door and one watching me in the dark. I don't remember attending school more then once. Instead I remember hours upon hours of manual labor. I vaguely remember a fire and carrying extremely heavy bed frames across campus. I was not allowed eye contact with others and when my Dad finally came to get me my dorm parent actually admitted that she had singled me out and abused me. The rapes, starvings, the restraining, the beatings, they all happened. And Jesus the kids that ran away over and over only to return because they were so brainwashed they didn't know what to do once they got out. Why my parents never did anything I'm not sure. Perhaps the brainwashing had more effect on them then they realize. Honestly like many kids who were left there to be forgotten about I think they didn't want to deal with the atrocities that they were essentially responsible for. To this day I cannot bring it up. The terms alone, the farm, cornering, sheeting make me want to vomit. I sit here with tear stained cheeks and a lump in my throat wondering what ever happened to those kids. I remember only a few names. Dana, Joy, Logan, Clair, Sloan. Jamal he was from NY. And this other kid who was in the gang Latin Kings and was known by his street name though I can't remember now. I am 35 my name is Bonnie. I was there when I was in h.s. I was never the same. No one that hasn't been there can understand what we went through. Though we may never be "right", we are survivors. I came across this on the web. http://www.desolatemetropolis.com/dm/ar ... to-school/. The only breath of relief I have is that Desisto and his so called school are both dead. May the horrors we experienced die with them.
micheldell:
I am new here and am very happy that we found a place where people recognize cults are shocking. I used to participate in the college. Thereputic appointed DeSisto School. Yes, it was a cult. Key in the background made this a terrible place for thousands of dollars in bad parents of children who are victims of this cult of the school.
Lonegoddess:
I was there between 1991 and 1992 (unfortunately I was there when the Al Saiz molestation horror occurred). I was a dorm parent and remember being told to make sure the boy's twin brother didn't make it to the farm to mete out revenge on Al. I was sick to my stomach and wanted the kid to be able to beat the crap out the guy who did that to his brother. I left the school before making my two year commitment. I was effectively under house arrest the last week I was there since Michael wouldn't allow me to interact with (or say goodbye to) any of the students. Sadly, my own depression has blotted out names and other memories, but I would welcome anyone who was there at the same time as me to contact me. I can be reached at lonegoddess at hotmail dot com.
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