What redeeming qualities? If they practiced unethical, experimental "therapy", abusive and isolationist tactics, fraudulent academics, untrained fucked up staff, then why would you send your kid there? Good friendships, a few sincerely caring staff and a few good memories don't justify the bullshit.
Just because you left CEDU and didn't royally fuck yourself, it doesn't necessarily mean that place employed sound practices. Maybe you simply grew up. Maybe they cowed you into compliance. Maybe you were never really fucked up to begin with.
The list of grievances are corroborated, specific and long. I'm not talking about an attitude of "CEDU sucks because I can't screw, smoke, or slag off" but completely COMPLETELY unethical practices. Out and out misrepresentation of therapy, academics, and accreditation, along with isolation, coersion, and heavy handed manipulation, as well as rampant, persistent verbal/psychological abuse.
So what SPECIFIC tools/therapeutic technique merits trusting your child to that place? Just call it what it is. A GROUP home that allows you to subsist at elementary academic level and promotes heavy doses of screaming and accusing as therapy, along with mind bending, highly contrived experentials where you better fucking go by the script already written.
Again, I am NOT attacking good hikes, good friends, a few good staff (who were fucking raked over), and the Neil Diamond weekend marathon.