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Escuela Caribe ~ New Horizons
krs1713:
hi i was a student at escuela caribe for one year.all of this talk about abuse and tourture is a matter of opinion...i am a female now 21,when my parents sent me i was 16. i will not sugar coat the experiance and say that i had the time of my life.i went through some of the most trumantic and emotionally trying times of my life during my stay...but to be fair to the staff they have good intentions,not to say that i beleive they are going about it the right way.i honestly still have nightmares about my time there ....there was no random physical abuse or sexual abuse of any kind.but the punishments were physically painful and at times to severe.examples-excessive exersises forced to sit in push up possoition untill your muscles were unable to function although you say the military does the same...no i joined the army after i left the school....the army was a piece of cake. and then there were swats if your offense was say lying your houseparent would take you for a meeting with admin and they would decide how many times you would be swatted with a long leather strap across the butt and back of the legs extremely painful and were talking pure humiliation for a teen of my age of 16-17.the students jokingly called the strap mr.brown but it was no joke....other than that excessive cleaning and hard labor,some macheteing in rainstorms and lots of yelling it wasnt to bad..oh yes and when you really make them mad you go into the q.r. were you have a mattress to sleep on and a bucket to piss in and i had the honor of wearing a strait jacket all night not able to pee at night so you can guess what happened there.we were taught to respect authority or pay immediate consequences and because of the way they did it i have a bigger authority problem now than when i went in.and i was more suicidal while i was there then i was before i went in but i grew up and i obey the law and appreciate my life and i didnt need teen spankings to do that.some times we just need to hit bottom before we go up and when i left there and screwed up my life even more thats when i grew up and i was not able to be forced to do that a minute sooner then i was ready to.So i mean no disrespect to the people at e.c. just the way they do things.and if you work there and are reading this you know everything i have said is true so please dont call me a liar cause you know it is.oh to defend the school we were allowed very little contact with the dominicans unless doing mission work so we were not further corupted by the culture in fact i think the d.r. is a beautiful place were i will plan to vacation as soon as i win the lotto :wave:
Anonymous:
You say abuse is a matter of opinion. To some extent, that's true. It's a matter of society's opinion.
When the US first got started, it was basically legal for parents to kill their own kids.
In majority Islamic countries, if a woman or girl is raped and a father or brother kills her to "restore family honor" he'll get either no punishment at all or a slap on the wrist---they don't view murdering rape victims to be abuse.
In US society, many, many of the things you described would be considered abuse.
For example, I don't know of any US state (maybe Utah?) where hitting their kid with a leather anything wouldn't put parents in *severe* danger of having their kid taken away by child protective services and them being prosecuted for child abuse.
Cult-type environments like the programs frequently have people leaving the group not consider what was done to them be abuse, even though by the larger society's norms it *clearly* was, because by *group* norms (in this case, the program's norms) it wasn't considered abuse.
It's called groupthink. The program says it doesn't abuse you, but within the program, within the groupthink environment, it gets to define what "abuse" is-----until it collides with external reality when society finds out what the program's been doing to kids and has a cow.
Anonymous:
Is this program Escuela Caribe part of the New Horizons Youth Ministries?
Anonymous:
4. work side by side for 3 hours with one particular student who was escorted to Escuela Caribe against his will.
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What's the name of the escort service that brought the so-called "unwilling" teen to this program that whips kids in the name of Jesus?
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