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Offline ladyjerrico

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« on: September 12, 2002, 09:49:00 AM »
I read this on the Seed info, and was wondering about Straight. I know that everyone was told a different price (for the families) when they were taken into Straight.
Just wondering how much it was, and if anyone was declined because of the cost factor, and if it costed too much that staff would punish the kids there?

Myself, I know my family spent 500 dollars a week for food. Also, $25,000 for me to be signed up in that hell hole.

If Straight was getting so much money, you would think they would have had better housing and facilities to stay in.. kinda crappy now if you asked me
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« Reply #1 on: September 12, 2002, 01:09:00 PM »
I think they determined fees by sliding scale, according to individual family incomes. I may be wrong.
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« Reply #2 on: September 12, 2002, 02:37:00 PM »
I have never asked, so I have no idea how much my mom paid for me to go there.

I was an out of town client so we did not have a host home.  She was a single mother, so i dont know if that had an effect.
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« Reply #3 on: September 12, 2002, 03:46:00 PM »
I was in the same shit-hole as you Lady (MI). My folks spent a little over $88,000 for my 17+ months.  One of my newcomers was a 19 year old Black guy from a poor family , who was court ordered to Straight.  The first time he mentioned wanting to pull himself , the executives helped him get out of the court order and then gave him a ride back to Detriot.  Lucky dude to be broke....Dogs
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« Reply #4 on: September 13, 2002, 12:11:00 AM »
Wow!!  I never in my wildest dream could've imagined that!  I am shocked!  I actually  entertained the notion that maybe insurance helped.  Does anybody know how it worked when a sibling was admitted??  I mean did they get a break?
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« Reply #5 on: September 13, 2002, 08:31:00 AM »
They tried to incarcerate my sister who at the time was in collage in Kalamazoo, they told my parents it would cost extra and she didn't show up to any more open meetings, they never told my mom a dollar figure. But my sister was upset to say the least.
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« Reply #6 on: September 13, 2002, 01:20:00 PM »
I asked my dad about it once and he didn't give me an actual figure, but he did say that his insurance covered some of it.
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« Reply #7 on: September 13, 2002, 07:13:00 PM »
Well.... what have you got?

That seems to be the formula. I know that if a parent couldn't come up with the scratch they were asking for, they'd give commissions for new recruites. I think my mom paid a lot of her way that way. There were at least 3 other kids from the Ft. Laud area. One was a black girl, the only black kid I ever saw in there in 2 years. I wondered at the time if she'd had something to do with my mom's best friend, Becky. Then there was my best friend and a gal named Cathy from Coral Springs.

Years later, I heard that my mom had something to do with recruiting for Bethesda Home for Girls; that same place that Alexia Parks talks about in her book An American Gulag
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« Reply #8 on: September 17, 2002, 09:13:00 AM »
In other words if you found recruits Straight would not cost as much?
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« Reply #9 on: September 17, 2002, 04:36:00 PM »
the fee for straight st. pete in '78  was $300.  I know, cause my parents made me pay half; man that pissed me off.  That was the admission fee, the cost to support 67 newcomers during my stay cost my parents almost $20,000.
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« Reply #10 on: September 18, 2002, 08:54:00 AM »
That's rediculous, my parents needed to put a 2nd mortgage on thier house just to afford the rehab itself and after I got out they were able to pay it back (thank God both my parents had good jobs at the time), my mom worked two just to support the family and my father was receiving retirement.
I would be very pissed off (to say the least) if my parents made me pay them for Straight, I think I would refuse to and run away again if I had to just to avoid the cost of a Nazi camp like that one
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