On 2005-01-28 12:30:00, Anonymous wrote:
"Your argument is ridiculous and bogus.
1)Didn't want to pick her up in the middle of group and take her to have an icecream.She has responsibilities. I think I can live without the co-dependent sickness that you are implying.
Ice cream was merely an example. Say you just happened to stop by after work and wanted to say "hi". How is that co-dependency?
2)She attended Palm Beach County School at GT. What is the big deal. Do you really think that everything that she was into that had gotten her to Gt, that it would have been a good idea to send her out to a public school? I don't.
The big deal is that I lost enough school to have me held back a grade. Others never made it back to school at all. I had a 3.52 GPA before LIFE. Attending school was forbidden before phase 3 in LIFE - I was just wondering if things were the same.
3)no comment. Your statements regarding this question is laughable.
Unfortunately, I have no concrete proof. We were not allowed to phone home or write about it. Do you really think anyone had a tape recorder handy? Of course it sounds insane. It WAS!
And that's another sickness of the "program" - the Confidentiality rule. Had I talked about what went on in group that day, it would have been "Talking behind backs" - a punishable offense. This may be why you don't know the half of what is going on at GT.
But since I don't give a rip about "consequences" anymore - if anyone else cares to corroborate - it was a staff member named "Jeff" that started the "you druggie scum are all going to die now" rap sometime between April - June 1984.
4)Ok, let me say this NO PHONE! That is not the end of the world and cetainly has nothing remotely related to abuse of any kind. I'm glad, before GT she spent her life on the phone.
So that makes it okay to deny her access to
any phone calls? I would think such a family oriented program would encourange kids to phone home at least once a day.
5)Because first you mus
t understand the premise of the program to understand this idea. They have everything taken away from them, and then they earn it back as they move on to higher phases. I have never seen a kid that was bleeding or anything else that was denied proper medical attention.
I was talking about
chapped lips, guy! Christ! You have to beat 'em down by denying Chap-Stick to make 'em comply? Come ON!
And why do you have to earn the right to attend your acne or shave? And why did you not answer why guys can shave and girls can't?
Have you ever been in the service?
Nope! However, my father is very proud Marine. He'll tell you these methods are absolutely bogus.
All in all, I think I know where you are coming from. None of the concerns you listed nor the reasons which you gave for each of them describes in any manner what is going on at Growing Together. You are a fraud."
So where am I coming from? What is going on at GT?
I never claimed to be at GT. Once again, I was in LIFE, which spawned GT. How does that make me a fraud?