When you say Anne and Bucci can't practice anymore, what do you mean by that specifically? Does this mean he just won't be able to get licensing to open another school or have a private practice, or does it mean he won't be able to do anything in his field? Alot of options exist for someone like him. He is (was?) already a "career consultant" and "ed consultant".
How about all the other staff, the 1% that were shamelessly cruel and powerhungry, many of whom have long since left the school? (Ted McAllister?)
More importantly,
What about the hundreds of other "schools" and "treatment centers" around the country (and just across the border) that are just as bad if not worse than HLA? Why do you think thewho focused so much on hidden lake? Bucci was a star in his time, in his industry, and HLA was his masterpiece. Flagship of the industry. It was the "top" therapeutic boarding school in the country, the "harvard of schools for troubled teens" as some liked to call it. When I spent countless hours countless hours typing up counter-propaganda to thewho's BS years ago, I did it because I felt that if HLA fell, the other schools would fall too. I didnt do it out of spite and vindictiveness towards just bucci and his cronies (disgruntled? hah!). I did it because it was the start of something much much bigger, something that would have a widespread effect on the future of troubled teen-dom.
When I try to explain to people what went down at that school, no one is able to truly comprehend the sheer scale of the "mind-fuck" we all had to go through. No one gets it, no one believes it. "it can't happen here, this is america! we have checks and balances for that stuff" is a common reaction when I try to explain things. My parents still don't understand what happened, or what they were thinking sending me there and believing all the lies....they are just happy it's in the past and over with. No one gets what we all had to go through fighting the school either. It was an epic battle on every front, but the war isnt over yet. It won't be over until all the other "schools" fall like dominos.
What happened here should not pass quietly and be forgotten. Jill, I INSIST you document your story and make a book out of it. Include all the names, and source everything so it's not defamation.
Bucci shouldn't be allowed to have any more responsibility than flipping burgers or mowing grass can afford him for the rest of his putrid and despicable life and awareness needs to be raised nationwide about these troubled-teen money farms.
