Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > Who Am I Discovery/Whitmore
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Joyce Harris:
Well, I would have to say that Whitmore Academy is about as WWASP-like as they come:
Cheryl Sudweeks is NOT a licensed therapist and she runs group "sessions" for the main purpose of humiliating kids.
Cheryl Sudweeks, a co-owner of Whitmore orders kids to beat up kids.
Kids are punished by being forbidden to eat meals.
Kids are bound and gagged when being beaten.
At Whitmore there are "Kids supervising Kids."
Parents are promised a quality education and therapy by a licensed therapist for their kids, and this is not provided.
The parents pay for and expect a safe, clean, healthy environment, and this is not provided.
So--from what I have read about WWASP Programs, I think if you asked the boy who was abused if Whitmore is WWASP-like, he would give you a great big YES. I know my daughter would.
I really don't like the idea that WWASP is set up as the "standard" of whether or not a child was abused ENOUGH. When parents send their children away to what is represented as a "private theuraputic academic boarding school," they do not have the expectation that their child will be abused AT ALL.
Cayo Hueso:
--- Quote ---On 2005-02-28 20:50:00, Joyce Harris wrote:
I really don't like the idea that WWASP is set up as the "standard" of whether or not a child was abused ENOUGH. When parents send their children away to what is represented as a "private theuraputic academic boarding school," they do not have the expectation that their child will be abused AT ALL.
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--Andrew Dickson White (1832-1918)
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Antigen:
--- Quote ---On 2005-02-28 20:50:00, Joyce Harris wrote:
Well, I would have to say that Whitmore Academy is about as WWASP-like as they come:
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I would beg to differ w/ that assessment. There are a lot of programs out there that are more WWASP-like. Thayer, for example. It's run by John and Willa Bundy. John Bundy is thought to be a former employee of Teen Help/WWASPS. Can anyone substantiate that? They also operate a referal service that's been under some criticism for pretending to represent a group of outfits, but really strongly favoring Thayer.
And a young man died there recently, over the course of at least days and in front of a few students and staff. Nobody spoke out till it was too late the way some of the Whitmore kids spoke out about some of the things that have happened there.
I think there's a difference. I don't really blame the people who insist that "different from WWASP" means perfectly good, safe and effective for thinking that. I do blame them for refusing to look closely enough at the proffered alternatives. Everybody wants to be a hero. Nobody wants to think they've been wrong. That's how crusades, jihads and other wars always start.
There are similarities as well. Those are interesting. They're similar in that they really seem to hook the parents a lot more than the kids. Most of the kids just go along because the program is holding their parents hostage. But they don't have anywhere near the level of organization that WWASP has w/ controling the parents, either. It's just these couple of charismatic ppl, not an established show circuit of EST derived seminars.
I've spoken to former students and adults who are actually afraid of physical, illegal, thug violence if they speak out against Thayer and/or the CEDU programs. Whitmore only seems to inspire fear of getting a bitch session from Cheryl.
No, I'd give WWASP props for professionalism, but it's like giving props to Stalin for having the trains running on time.
Moralizing, with the force of law or coercion, is a
far greater crime against the constitutional principles of our nation than unauthorized euphoria, regardless of the substance involved, be it chocolate or heroin.
--James
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Antigen:
--- Quote ---On 2005-02-28 20:50:00, Joyce Harris wrote:
I really don't like the idea that WWASP is set up as the "standard" of whether or not a child was abused ENOUGH. When parents send their children away to what is represented as a "private theuraputic academic boarding school," they do not have the expectation that their child will be abused AT ALL.
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Well I don't like it either, but I read it differently. I've looked over some of the WWASP material from time to time and looked in on some of their public parent support/recruiting forums. And I must say that their hateful attitude toward kids is thinley veiled.
That's the saddest part of this whole saga. As you talked about in another thread, these kids have become orphans in a big way. They've been through this major, life altering trauma and they can never talk to their parents about it. End of the day, their parents are no longer on their side.
I know what that feels like and I know what it feels like to have a parent leave the ranks of the faithful and be there for me. I feel for those kids who don't have even one parent left to them after the Program fleeces their families.
That WWASP is the standard in the industry (I'm not so sure that's true anymore, but they're certainly up there) tells me something I don't really want to know about this generation of parents.
Whenever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.
Thomas Jefferson: Kentucky Resolutions, 1798
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Joyce Harris:
Antigen,
I am sorry, but I still disagree.
Whitmore is just one school which is run by two owners, Mark and Cheryl Sudweeks.
But I do not believe that the abuse of any child should be "graded by some standard of what is worse."
What if this boy who was being abused had not finally escaped, and gotten to the police? He had only been at Whitmore less than 2 months, and had been abused repeatedly the whole time--from the moment he arrived at Lake Powell. I can not state the incidents since my daughter will be a witness if it goes to trial; but this 14 year old boy's very life was in danger.
We removed our daughter after 2 months at Whitmore, and have filed serious charges against the Sudweeks. We certainly are glad we didn't wait to see "just how bad it could have gotten."
I do not know the extent of the mind-control of the people who are "believers of the Sudweeks." But when strangers call and harrass us on their behalf, that is scary. When Mark Sudweeks will lie and "quote" from a non-existing police report, that causes us concerns.
Whitmore may not be the "worse of the worse" but from how things seem to be developing, perhaps the word YET should be added to that.
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