Cypress--There is really no reason to strike attitudes--how about just assuming I am sincere, you can always change your mind about that, at your own discretion, later on.
And I have to ask: why have you even addressed me again today, with the attitude, the hostility, you could just ignore me, if the quality of your current posts is all the interest you have in any kind of meeting of minds. I said that I'd ignore you, stay away from you, and yet you sought me out again. But I'll try to answer some of your questions anyway, and hope things become clearer.
In terms of my experience with the school, I really was not too concerned about how my son would deal with confrontation for two simple reasons: for one thing, I knew nothing about psychological issues at that point, so I didn't know enough about it to have an opinion (kind of ignorant bliss, I guess), and for another reason, I was sort of instinctually aware that he was one tough kid who was pretty oppositional.
What would you have me say: the truth is that we both learned whole dimensions of living through our CEDU experiences.
The facts are that, post-CEDu, my whole family is happier than ever. For myself, I have a clear vision of what I want to do with the rest of my life and that vision is directly related to my CEDU experiences.
So of course, after having such a good experience, I would like to share it with others. Let me say it as clearly as I can: I am aware that not every other person had the same good experience that I had---I would like to understand why that is.
When I say that, all I often hear is that I must be brainwashed, my son must be brainwashed, I am a CEDU mole, my son is a coward, and on and on.
None of that is true but I do realize that these programs do not work for a lot of people. I would like to make sense of that reality.
That's all.
