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Thayer Learning Center in Kidder MO
Anonymous:
I agree with you. AMEN
Anonymous:
there has to be a better way. Abuse is abuse whether it comes from a family member or a high payed program,abuse is abuse and this program is abusive, locking someone up alone in a room is abuse. making someone eat something they cant stomach is abuse, no matter how good you think its tastes. refusing medical treatment is against the geniva convention yet it happens here regullarly. withdrawing human touch from a new born causes problems yet here touch is not allowed. cutting off contact with everything you know has its problems yet here it happens. One boy lost a family member and was told to get over it, he was given no grieving time, had to carry on exercising-could you an adult handle that?
veryconcernedparty2004:
Where you a student at Thayer? If you were and are at home, you can always tell the outside world by reporting abuse to the press or going to issacorp.org and writing to them. If no one speaks about what is going on at Thayer, many more will be hurt. Going to the authorities -is never an easy or simple thing to do. But, please, if you've seen abuse, consider reporting it.
Anonymous:
READ THIS
Well ill say one thing that is true about most kids and also applied to me, no psychological counseling was going to change me. I, like most teens at Thayer are quite the manipulators. I had a personality to fit every person and could have them doing what I wanted, including my parents. At Thayer I tried every trick in the book, trust me. And after ever situation or ?incident? I found myself in a red shirt. The only thing that would have helped me change my ways was going to Thayer. Being taken away from my negative environment (drugs, alcohol, friends), away from my parents who bailed me out of every situation, and left me on my own to succeed. There was no one who cared for anything I said except my family rep. The drill sergeants portrayed an act not to care, to make us believe there was no way out and no remorse. I knew that we meant something to them, especially the ones who stuck around, Avriette, Prindle, Aitcheson, Sperry, many sergeants came and left but there are only a few I remember and respect. D.S Lollar was was the most unforgettable and ran the most effective Boot camp at T.L.C. He was a fierce, disciplined and highly respectable man. Their was a sense of confidence about him that commanded everyone?s respect yet we dreaded his presence. I have written an English essay on him and I think it was a huge mistake of the school to let someone take over his boot camp. He is gone now and to those who knew him know what I mean. Anyways back to my point. Hence I was left of my own to succeed and change, with no help for anyone else. Most kids don't realize why they need to go to school or learn good values. I didn?t do anything in my life for myself (in the aspect working towards a better future); everything I did was because my parents wanted me to. What most of us have to realize is that what our parents make us to do is for our (the teenagers) benefit. I?m halfway through my freshman year at Norwich University; I have figured a lot of things out because of T.L.C but still have a whole lot more to comprehend. Maybe because I left the program early and didn?t graduate? I was their for 8 months but who knows. But right now I just got two of my mid term grades in and I have an A, B. I don?t do drugs or drink, I play a varsity NCAA sport, lacrosse. I do this all for me. Prior to T.L.C I was lucky if I got a C in high school, I spent my day doing drugs and drinking, I never went to class, and was skinny from cocaine and real out of shape. So don?t go saying negative things about the program, it?s a new place that is already VERY effective. Also the best advice I can give someone going to Thayer is ?Keep your mouth shut and do what your told?, the owners son told me that when he dropped me off. I was ignorant, and didn?t listen to him. They don?t just look to punish a student, but it a student is misbehaving he will be corrected in ways the school feels suitable. Anyways, some decisions I choose make my parents very unhappy but it?s not all about them. One thing that T.L.C emphasized allot was listening to your parents. If I did everything they tell me to do now I would be miserable. It?s a very complicated subject, there is no right or wrong answer but the child needs to do things for himself.
Basically what I am saying adds up to, if you get your child to realize he needs to succeed for himself, for his future, for his children then he will make positive choices. Because isn?t what every parents wants if for their child to be successful and happy?
- Bakerly
Im a psychology major so give me a break
Anonymous:
I'm a psychology graduate, so give me a break. These programs have not been shown to be effective and if there were effects found, they would not be able to generalize for the long term, outside the establishment.
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