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Aspen Education Group: Any former students?
Anonymous:
yes im a former student at aspen achievement academy if you have any questions about it my email is utahrocks2002@yahoo.com
Anonymous:
yeah there is some definite negative stuff that went down at the school..but as speaking as a former counselor at the school i know that all the staff there that i was associated with truly did care about the kids there...
Anonymous:
I would like to know what else happened at Aspen Achievement. My father is trying to send my brother there and I have heard so many bad things about these wilderness camps. please respond.
Anonymous:
What kind of negative stuff? I am fearing for my brother.
mudbone357:
Hi,
the negative things that were going on at Aspen when I was there in the early 90's ran the gambit abuse, from witholding of food and water to physical restraints all the way to serious danger from exposure and exhaustion. I was in no way an easy kid to deal with at that time, but I was also detoxing from a serious Herion and Cocaine problem, and was denied any type of medical assitance. Other members of my group who refused to eat or drink would still be marched up to and exceeding 10 miles a day, and many of them collapsed and were injured. On a solo period a boy in my group was cooking unsupervised with pork fat and received 3rd degree burns on his legs and pelvis. When I collapsed on the second day from lack of food(they give you no food for the first 72nd-ish hours), I was dragged by my backpack (which consisted of nothing more than a tarp tied together with a seatbelt strap, and weighing 100lbs.) for almost a mile over rocks and through dessert plants and the occasional stream, and all of this while only weighing 120lbs. myself.
This program is criminal and negligent, and the fact that it has not been shut down is a testament to the absolute absence of children's rights in the great theocracy that is the state of Utah.
No child should be forced to endure this torture; it is child abuse, no more and certainly no less.
I don't believe in God, but just in case, I'll pray for the children who now inhabit that God-forsaken stretch of desert. They need it. : :sad:
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