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« on: August 14, 2004, 11:59:00 PM »
anything regarding north west academy.
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« Reply #1 on: August 16, 2004, 02:42:00 PM »
When did you attend? I was at NWA from 1998 to 2000. I can go on forever about that place, so just give me a topic.
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« Reply #2 on: March 11, 2005, 07:53:00 AM »
Im from NWA.  2000-2002
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« Reply #3 on: March 11, 2005, 10:44:00 AM »
Please do.  Any topic.  My son is about to go there.
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« Reply #4 on: March 11, 2005, 02:24:00 PM »
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"Please do.  Any topic.  My son is about to go there."


I had a child there.  It's not perfect but its not what many here would have you believe.  I've lurked here off and on for a while and I found this site useful in trying to get a 360 degree view of CEDU/NWA. I suggest you use it the same way.

Take any info you get here with a grain of salt.  Many express their feelings with a great deal of sincerity.  The whole CEDU thing clearly didn't work for them amd when it doesn't work it appears that it can leave additional scars.

Some others throw around opinion like its fact and some just plain make things up for entertainment.

 BTW my child is doing well.  She speaks fondly of her friends and a few staff people but she also talks about what she saw as the uneccessary bullshit in the program.  All I know is that I have a daughter who is a HS graduate and is sober instead of one who was drinking a lot of cheap vodka every day and flunking out of HS.  (The product of poor parenting?  Maybe.  I'll take some blame but the unsafe behaviour was there anyway.)

I hope your son does well.  Listen to him, listen to the staff and trust your instincts.

To the regulars:
Feel free to flame away.
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« Reply #5 on: March 11, 2005, 05:30:00 PM »
I agree with the previous anon parent poster.  I too have a child that graduated from a CEDU school.  It is not perfect, but it gave my child a safe, relatively nurturing environment in which to mature. At the same time he earned his HS diploma.  

The staff are caring and well-intentioned.  I think that the raps can be taken to extreme, but all in all, I think it was the right program for my son.  

He is doing well post-CEDU, stays in contact with several staff and classmates.  

If you have any other questions about the program, feel free to post back with your e-mail address, and I will try to reach you.
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« Reply #6 on: March 12, 2005, 02:02:00 PM »
What's wrong with cheap vodka? Us college kids (college, doesn't that mean we're doing well?) live off of that shit. Popov and Skol - it's the stuff dreams are made of.
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« Reply #7 on: March 12, 2005, 02:05:00 PM »
i agree. popov is good stuff. it all tastes the same in a screwdriver anyways. that's the kind of stuff cedu can't teach you.
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« Reply #8 on: March 12, 2005, 03:59:00 PM »
Your son APPEARS to be doing well. Mine and all of his CEDU buddies and girlfriends are drinking drugging and screwing like Austin Powers in paradise. CEDU did nothing but delay development and impose a false infantile reality.

Read behind the lines. I have followed CEDU kids for 20 years, and I can say with confidence that the whole process is a scham. It is scripted and presented like a play. And, all of the staff have their part. Ariel cries, LaTeresa cries and says she is so prowd. Then the parents leave and the cookies go away along with the dinner and game hens. Then, the whole mess begins again.

Read Ginger's question on the top of the CEDU fornits hot topics page that says "have you ever been brainwashed" it is the Robert Lifton's Essay from "Thought reform and the Psychology of Totalism."

It brings CEDU alive - Every paragraph describes CEDU in sorded detail.

Of course, kids sometimes come out saying that CEDU "saved their lives." It was beat into them emotionally over years. I can show you Scientologists, Moonies, Hari Chrishnas,EST graduates people waiting for space ships, and the "rapture" by the millions. And Mormons, damn, Mormons, that are almost Gods because of a few rituals and a social system that breeds dependency and group-think. They will all say they were saved, their lives changed,their lives spared, by their respective religions and psychology cults.

I was one of them who went searching for the truth in 4 or 5 different cults and one of them was CEDU.

When you leave (when the money runs out and they have no use for you) after about 6 months, the false superiority and the feel-good regression wears off. Then reality again bites. For us, it bites harder, because we have been living in mommys womb and thinking we are ultra powerful, free and taken care of by "relationships."

Your kid will find out what CEDU and these "friends" really represent when push comes to shove. Mark my words, CEDU is a cult scam, and you son will suffer like everyone else. And, you will find that you have been deluded into believing in a false constructed reality that, for those who "buy in," makes weak, non thinking infants out of strong people.
Wake up. Wake up Wake up.
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« Reply #9 on: March 12, 2005, 09:36:00 PM »
This is just my personal opinion, you don't have to agree with me one bit, but this is how I feel.

Kids who get sent to cedu are obviously doing something wrong. I was. But I don't think by any means that getting sent to cedu suddenly saved me and taught me a bunch of vital tools that have allowed me to live a happy life that wouldn't have possible had I never gone to Idaho. Who knows what would've happened, perhaps I could've ridden out the 'storm' and made it to college successfuly. Maybe I wouldn't have, and life would've taught me some lessons the hard way. Maybe I was on my way to juvy. Who knows?

All I know is, Cedu didn't save me. I made the decision to get it together on my own. Cedu took credit for it, but it was all me baby. Kids that were destined for failure before cedu achieve it eventually...they simply get delayed 2 painful years. Kids that are destined for success would've opened their eyes eventually. Ascent opens a lot of kids eyes...as much as that place sucks, I think it serves a purpose. Schools like BCA, however, don't. They take the credit for 'saving' you at the extremely high cost of retarding your personal and social development. Because of this, Cedu hurts far more than it helps. If it helps at all.

To the parents who have contributed to this board, if your kid wants to do well, he will. If he has no desire to succeed, he will reap what he sews. Cedu won't change it either way. Perhaps there is a rare occasion where it will. But I wouldn't count on it.

People are going to find their own form of happiness one way or another. The spoonfed version cedu forces down your throat is not it.
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« Reply #10 on: August 11, 2005, 04:33:00 PM »
I was there from '98-2000. Andrew Kent here. Who are you?
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