Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > Mission Mountain School
the truth about it...
Anonymous:
Any chance of an e-mail address?
Anonymous:
Kerry, I can empathize with you as to your particular experience at what I understand people term "therapeutic boarding" schools. It is my understanding that there are many schools (actaully hundreds of them in the US now) that fit this niche. I presume that it takes quite a bit of researcch to find a particular one that would suite one's child.
What I don't gather from your experience is what was going on for your parents. What is their take on the school(s)? What was their life like as they progressed through you going to several schools? The implication is that, since you went to several schools, you might have been asked to leave several of them??? I imagine that that must have been hell for your folks.
It just seems to me that there are some folks that choose to speak out negatively about these schools (and don't get the impression that I think they are all good...there are evidently some good, many bad and several in the middle)but, they do not allow the "others" (those that had to bare the burden of the choice) to weigh in.
I would like to hear from your folks, or the guardians of you at the time as to the legitimacy and acceptablility of the programs. Certainly, it was your actions that precipitated the decision to have you attend a boarding school. Perhaps one should consider the perspective of the caregiver in this regard. I would suggest that someone (the one(s) accountable for you) were trying to save your life at the time....apparently it worked.
Evidently, if you are a 161 IQ, you are now able to use that intelligence to do good in the world, perhaps you should go from discrediting the school(s) to working with them to make their programs mopre apropo to the need.
If there were not thousands (hundreds of thousands) of children in precarious adolescent positions, we would not need the schools.
Cheers, and good luck.
Anonymous:
Hello, As I read your e-mail, I could relate to the frustration you may have in attempting to find out about particular schools. You mentioned Mission Mountain. Have you ever been to the school? Have you toured the campus and met with the administration, staff and students? If you had, you may feel differently. Have you actually spoken with the ownership? You mention that if "parents knew what was happening to their daughters, the place would be out of business." Evidently, that could not be further from reality. I understand that the school is full with a waiting list.
Why would you equate Mission Mountain to a WWASP school? Have you ever been to a WWASP school? I understand that they are "locked" facilities. Certainly Mission Mountain does not fit that description.
Perhaps you may want to speak to some of the parents who have had good or even excellent results from the school. Have you tried to talk to the parents of the "someone very dear to me?"
It sounds to me like you are poking at opinions and myths and have not actually tried to go to the source. Why rely on the few "disgruntled" folks that act negatively. Perhaps you should go to the school and work with the staff to see what it is really like.....you may be surprised at what you find.
Good luck with your very dear someone.
Antigen:
Aw! Those poor, put upon parents! Well, as long as they're happy, who cares what happens to the kids? After all, they're all bad kids to begin with, right?
What did these poor, innocent parents ever do to deserve the difficulty of raising teenagers anyway? Oh yeah, they decided to have kids. ::noway::
I swear by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
* - ~ Galt's Creed ~ - *
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Anonymous:
--- Quote ---On 2005-03-29 18:54:00, Anonymous wrote:
"Hello, As I read your e-mail, I could relate to the frustration you may have in attempting to find out about particular schools. You mentioned Mission Mountain. Have you ever been to the school? Have you toured the campus and met with the administration, staff and students? If you had, you may feel differently. Have you actually spoken with the ownership? You mention that if "parents knew what was happening to their daughters, the place would be out of business." Evidently, that could not be further from reality. I understand that the school is full with a waiting list.
Why would you equate Mission Mountain to a WWASP school? Have you ever been to a WWASP school? I understand that they are "locked" facilities. Certainly Mission Mountain does not fit that description.
Perhaps you may want to speak to some of the parents who have had good or even excellent results from the school. Have you tried to talk to the parents of the "someone very dear to me?"
It sounds to me like you are poking at opinions and myths and have not actually tried to go to the source. Why rely on the few "disgruntled" folks that act negatively. Perhaps you should go to the school and work with the staff to see what it is really like.....you may be surprised at what you find.
Good luck with your very dear someone.
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Perhaps you didn't read any other posts on here because I made one with lots of good points. As a student at MMS I did benefit from aspects of the program. My parents are very pleased with my having gone there because it helped me, however they are displeased with certain events that occured there and certain staff. No where is perfect, but when putting your children in the hands of other people you need to be able to trust they will be treated well emotionally and physically. That was not always the case at MMS. Of course there is a full waiting list, MMS seems very appealing and in ways it truly is. My mother was very impressed when visiting because a good impression was given off. I think that if there were a way for prospective parents to speak with other parents of past students they would be able to get the most realistic view, that way they can get an idea of how they may feel down the road. Don't discredit people's experiences. I know for a fact nothing Kerry said was untrue, I witnessed it all. People are different, and treated differently and have different experiences. This is not a matter of people acting negatively or taking things out on MMS, it's them sharing their experiences good and bad. Period. Just as people shouldn't discount the good aspects of MMS, no one should discredit people's real experiences that weren't very good.
Melissa Gower
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