Ottawa5,
All insults and redemption talk aside, I would like to know exactly what it is you consider legal. I fully agree with your statements that moderate yelling, punishing a child with physical work, and imposing a dress code are not illegal activities, and in fact are part of every day life at most normal boarding schools.
Yes you are correct in taking that position, and no doubt did so after having lengthly discussions with your lawyer friends.
Perhaps you and you legal team would be so kind as to inform me as to whether or not the following practices are legal......
Is it legal for a Cedu staff member to break a student's arm in the act of preventing them from walking out of a RAP?
Is it legal for Cedu staff to Isolate a child and completely deprive them of food for a period of 4 days? (This was done to every cedu student who experienced the solo portion of "WILDERNES CHALLENGE.")
Is it legal for an educator at ANY School to hear students give sincere & detailed accounts of severe physical and/or sexual abuse that was inflicted on them by their parents or other family members, and not report what they've heard to the appropriate authorities (namely the state)?
Is it legal and/or ethical for ANY school to knowingly employ someone to educate children, who publicly and frequently admits to having had molested a 13 year old girl? Steve Laird was my discovery family head, and he told us about how he had molested that poor girl all the time.
Is it legal and/or ethical for Any school to substitute a proper education (english, math, science, history) with chopping wood, group therapy, and farm work, and to award highschool credits for these activities? When I was at cedu we had proper schooling only 2 mornings per week. That's 1 day per week to learn all of the required academics in order to graduate highschool. No state school board would find that acceptable, yet cedu was handing out diplomas every year.
Is it Legal and/or ethical for Any school to forbid and prevent their students from reading books? I mean absolutely no books period! Being banned from reading was quite common at Cedu-RS when I was there, I myself was BANNED from reading for a period of 3 months!
Is it legal for Cedu school to discriminate against a student's culture and/or religion? When I was at Cedu-RS only Judaism could be practiced openly. Students were not allowed to attend church, or keep any religious symbols that were not Jewish (such as crosses or bibles) in their rooms. I was made to stand patiently and listen to chanuka and rashashanah songs, yet I was not allowed to observe my own Christmas
(Orthodox Christmas is on January 7th), or to even call my family on that day. As I understand the law, It is ILLEGAL for Any School to prevent a child from attending Church on Sunday!
Is it legal for staff members at Any school to hurl racial slurs at their students, like cedu staff often do in raps? There was a girl in my peer group named Kasey, she was black. Whenever
staff wanted her to cry in raps they would call her a "Nigger", often times repeatedly.
Is it legal for any school to forbid a child from, and to punish them for speaking to their parents in their native language? My parents and I came here from Montenegro, english is NOT our first language. Yet, Cedu forbade me from speaking Serbian to them when we talked on the phone, or when they visited me on campus.
Is it legal for a Cedu School to recieve state funding (as they often do with kids who are sent there by the state) and use those funds to teach religion? The Cedu program has all of the traditional components of religion, including it's own bible ("The Profit" by Kalil Gibraun), preachers (anyone here remeber cedu staff and "House Around the Pit"), commandments and sins (being in and out of agreement), and rights of passage (profeets and work shops). Just because the state has not yet determined that Cedu's program is in essence a religion, does not mean that they won't in the future. And there does exist a very strong case for doing so.
Is it Legal for Any Any School to deprive a child of sleep for periods that exceed 30 hours, as Cedu does in their profeets and work shops? I know for a fact that even prisons are required by law to allow inmates a certain number of hours to sleep for every 24 hour period.
I am personally aware of all the above abuses that I described here. I witnessed almost all of them. Ottawa5, please print this post and show it to your lawyer friends. Let's see if they still think that Cedu doesn't break the law.
Oh, and how is this for redemption? By the way, there is plenty more where this came from, but I figure that I've already given you enough to chew on.
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[ This Message was edited by: SON OF SERBIA on 2004-09-17 15:47 ]