Wow! I started reading these posts about 1 month ago and now it's turned out to be a very heated subject!
I am a MMS allumni and I remaining annonimous because I am afraid of the school! I will soon reveal myself, but I currently in the process of writing MY story first before I say anything without anonimity....someone was already threatned to be sued for posting their thoughts on the school! I have 2 children now and I do not want to put my family at any risk.
If you are interested in reading my story it will be done soon....please have patience. The reason why I am taking these actions is because I have been very thoughtful about filing a law suit against MMS. I have to be very careful about what I write so i am not portrayed as someone who just wants to take their hate out on the school.It is easy to identify someone in that way. When writing these things people can just blame you for being rebellious and hateful. I want everyone to know my full story before MMS,during MMS and after MMS. This will give everyone whole different perspective. and you can answer your own questions while reading my story. You can decide wether or not you believe If I was treated fairly and appropriately.
I think you will be shocked when you see my devastating history as a small child and the approach that MMS took to "heal" me, which was completely innapropriate.
Also, I would like to say that I went to school with Melissa and Kerry. For the record..they are not lying about what they are saying. This is not just a random viocious attack towards the school.
As a human being you know what is right and wrong...and the school is wrong. Even if someone girls say was some what good. it either is or it isn't. Everyone can be effected from any experience, so therefore,it could have changed anyone possitively or negatively.That is not the point of the discussion.
So over all the question is: Is Mission Mountain school, bad or good? with concrete evidence and information. This is something hard for people to identify because sometimes things were fun at that school..but look at it this way. If a person abuses another does that make them bad or good? in order to make a clear point it is important to state specific situations. Some girls will tell you that it was a great school, and it was in the purpose that it had, like a church...it is great, but just because it has a great purpose it doesn't mean that the purpose was served. People can say "well MMS was made to toughfen you up." yes true, but what lines were crossed?
Also was Mision Mountain School a problem as an entire school including all the staff?...If all the staff were witnesses to what ocurred there and let it slide they too are guilty. They had the option of working there. If you saw girls being treated innapropriately or felt that something was not right, would you continue on working there?
I would like to give you all some information to think about so you have something concrete to look at. It is about the headmaster of the school and a few specific things that he would do that I did not agree with.
-->The one who has main control of the school is John Mercer, he is the headmaster. He is definetly to blame for most of the things that occur and have occured in the school. While I was a current student at the school I would have believed anything John told me.
He could manipulate anyone into believing anything. If he told me that the sky was green I would have believed him, and if I didn't believe him he would used anything in his power to make me believe. I was told that I was a sex addict, drug addict, alcoholic, and I believed it.I am not any of those, but he told me, so I was.
John Mercer believes that he is like a "God". I am not saying this to make fun. He believes that he has control over powers in the world. He believes that the world revolves around him. that the sun comes out for him and goes down for him. He thinks that he had the right to make us wait for him for hours (while all the girls waited to receive a dose of therapy on "john nights") becase he is that important. Sometimes we would wait from 8:00pm-1:00am or more. What was he doing while we waited? I've always wondered. He was probably sitting in his living room watching T.V for hours or sipping a cup of tea making himself late on purpose...so when he arrived (like kings do) we would be so grateful that he atleast came. We should have been atleast grateful to even had the chance to look at him,as he probably thought.
We all waited together.. making a circle of about 32 girls..just sitting there restlessly for hours, not being able to talk to eachother. Sitting in fear of him wondering who was going to pick on tonight.
Why in the world do I need to wait for anyone extensive hours? When he met with us he would he would make it seem like he had just finished doing a great deal of paper work and research for our sakes. As if he had been thinking about us for all those hours. As if he had been putting so much thought in to us. Didn't he have to whole week to do that? We only saw him one time a week as a whole group, and we were only 32 or so girls.
How hard can it be? (and remember our parents payed him a great deal of money so it's not like he was doing all out of his heart) What was it $80,000 per girl/ year- so about $80,000 x 32? wow....maybe he was off spending all that money. I wish I knew the whole truth.
If any of you other allumni have anything else to add about this specific situation please do!! Let's give examples one at a time!like this one so we can all dicuss things orderly..(people won't have to look back and ask us over and over about different situations)This is the -WAITING FOR JOHN GROUP-NITES- SITUATION.
to everyone else...what do you think about this specific situation? would you have waited hours and hours for someone, who greatly benefits financially from you? Do they have the right to waste your time? What do you think about all this?
Please identify me as annonimous-Angel or Angel when you are replying to me. Thank you.