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Anonymous:
I went to CEDU in 1987 and split after five and a half months; my second attempt was successful.
What happened the first 5 times you tried to split?
They always told us they'd kick us out if we keep trying to split (like it was a privelege to be there.)
CEDU IS A CULT:
Serb, I agree with you 100%. For me, there was no redeeming factor about CEDU. Comparitively, I learned nothing. I cannot justify the torture and attrocities of CEDU school, by thinking it made me into a stronger person. Fuck that excuse. I suggest using that reasoning to comfort an ex-prisoner at Abu Graib.
There is no comfort and there is no excuse. 2 and 1/2 years of my life were spent being systematically brainwashed, stripped of all my rights- the right to education, health care, free press, freedom of assembly, free speech, and freedom to seek happiness which is defined constitutionally as the increase of joy and the decrease of sorrow. Not to mention daily physical and mental abuse. How about labor laws?
Didn't we do all the cleaning, landscaping, rock walls, ditch digging, dishes, etc.? What the fuck were they payed $5900 a month for?
Did it make me a stronger person?
I don't know- so does taking a shit in the morning.
Sorry, but you gotta figure out who you are. I am just not anything resembling what CEDU tried to make me into. I highly doubt anyone who knew me there would even recognize me physically- let alone mentally. Maybe Laura's philosophy is a lot like what CEDU tried to make her, so she finds that CEDU was a good lesson taught by bad teachers.
Frankly, I can't find a single thing in their philosophy that I can agree with.
You know what most people do with their sins?
They bury and forget them.
Hell on Wheels:
Shit, the only way I knew of to get kicked out was to fuck-off a lot right before you turned 18, walk out of the Summit (probably the I and ME, but I'm not sure). For everything else, you got either a fat full-time, ascent, mental hospital, or a free trip to a lock-down facility
shanlea:
I guess I got lucky because the first time I split, I got caught by an off duty police officer who really did NOT want to bring me back, but whose job was on the line.
So, of course they told my parents to tell me I'd go to lock up if I split again. (Why a person who was no danger to anyone else who had zero aggressive tendecies go to lock up was beyond me.) Anyway, the second time I split, I decided to ask my parents to pull me out during the parent weekend. I could see my Dad was beginning to have doubts about the place--but he was going along with w/Mom. CEDU worked them over and I made the decision to split immediately following. I already told that whole story of my successful split (after staying a week w/some lady babysitting her kids, she drove me to my home city where she was attending a family reunion.)But I banked on Dad not sending me to lock up and I was right. Thank Freaking GOd.
If worse came to worse, I would have left after another 6 months when I turned 18, but truthfully, I would have probably been more brainwashed by them.
One thing I do want to know: How come nobody managed to convince their parents to pull them out on home visits?
Shanlea
Son Of Serbia:
the first time i split the police caught me. the second time i split a staff member (on his day off) ran into me by pure chance at a VONS in san bernardino, and talked me into going back. the third time i split i came back on my own. the fourth & fifth times my parents hired private investigators who tracked me down and brought me back. the sixth time was the charm. i did a table for the first escape attempt, and full times for attempts two, three, four, & five. before escaping the final time, the longest i had stayed out of cedu (before being returned) was 1 week.
I was only 14 when i first came to cedu and my first 4 attempts were a spur of the moment thing. i never lasted more than a few days before they caught me. my fifth attempt was planned (i split on my first home visit) but i made to mistake of spending more than one night in the same place, and i got nailed.
my sixth attempt i had planned for about 3 months, including how i would get home (i lived in chicago)and where i would hideout once i got back home. (as an older student they didn't monitor my phone calls anymore, instead of calling my parents, i called my friends---my parents never complained because they were ignoring me ever since the 5th time that i split). i also found out that i could keep my old permission slips (staff would always hand them back to me for some reason), change the dates, and re-use them at nights where different staff were on the floor. i was calling my buddies in San Diego, and Chicago at least 3-4 times a week for almost 3 months---and Cedu payed the bills!!! HA, Ha, HA !!!
getting to chicago with no money or identity was the hard part (that took me 2& 1/2 months), and thats when i slept on street corners and witnessed horrors i spoke of before. once in chicago i had a network of close friends (and even some family) set up, who moved me from place to place. i spent only 1 night in chicago without a roof over my head. i knew my parents would hire someone to find me, so i had to constantly stay on the move. like i said, i planned for months.[ This Message was edited by: SON OF SERBIA on 2004-07-14 07:28 ]
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