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Nephi, Utah

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Anonymous:
What is happening in this town?

Antigen:
Don't you get it yet? Take a look at the press in Bonner's Ferry about CEDU shutting down. Not a word of concern for why it shut down or the kids and staff who have been complaining for years about that mad house. Just "Oh, those poor people who suddenly lost their jobs!"

I think the Nephi area community standards are like that. They just issued a license to Mark Wardle again.

I think that is the mindset and Chris Gentile has probably stated it as well as anyone. "Eh, so some kids get roughed up, humiliated, threatened, intimidated, indoctrinated, etc. So what? At least they don't have a 300lb Jamaican twisting their arms out of joint."

Of course, I'm paraphrasing. But that is the state of the industry in the great western states today.

The worse part of it is that some of the people who send kids to these places know all about it and tacitly or even overtly approve. I don't know what to do about those types except maybe to try and shed light on the fact. Maybe their neighbors and families will shame them into better behavior or at least take seriously the fact that their kids have valid complaints and need some help and support. But for those who don't know, who assume that the friendly and charming edcon is telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but, at least we can try and give those ones a heads up.


A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-- Robert Heinlein

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Anonymous:
The sad part tho, is many parents do not know about the abuse and neglect of their kids until after their kids have been there for over a year. By then the kids are more damaged than than the orignal "reasons they were placed to begin with."  By then the kids, many of them age 18, are not open to any type of therapy--and the relationships between parents and child is ruined. A terrible situation.
And the owners of the program? They made a bunch of money and are not held responsible for any of the neglect and abuse.
Not in this case, Not this time.

Anonymous:
You hit the nail on the head.... unfortunately, our situation to a "t".  As a parent you don't know where to begin or who to turn to.  All the money is gone, and you really don't trust the therapy industry anyway. It is a sad, frustrating and heartbreaking situation.  Once they turn 18 there isn't much you can do legally but turn them loose and hope for the best.

nite owl:
Nephi is a very small town in Utah - from the road - I-15 it doesn't look like there's more than a store and a gas station there.  Another remote location for the teen industry. I think there's probably a program in every town in Utah. It's an industry that keeps the townsfolk in small Utah towns employed.  
We ought to be grateful that our government monopoly schools are such a failure. If today's 18 year olds could do arithmetic, they'd be out buying enough rope to hang everybody over 40.
--Alan Handleman on Social Security

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