Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > The Ridge Creek School / Hidden Lake Academy
Racism and other stuff
Macaroni3001:
First off I never lived in Lumpkin County or Dawsonville. I commutted to work everyday with a couple of my work mates. How in the hell do you know what I experienced in Lumpkin county, dawsonville, or any part of the world. If you sit here and beleive that racism, bigotry, or whatever else that goes along with hatred towards people of the darker skin color then you are ignorant to the facts. So Mrs Shh did not set the record straight. The only thing she did was talk about her experiences in those counties or areas. You don't know what I experienced. Peace Out.
Macaroni3001:
Yes I did work at HLA for about 8 months between June of 2004 until March of 2005. Well my experience there was a little mix. I loved working with the students as there counselor and basketball coach. But I did not some of the things that happen while I worked at HLA.
Things I liked:
1. The staff was cool as hell. I made a lot of friends and still is friends with staff such as Daryl, Johnny, Bill W.(a black guy), Miya, Jenine, and Denny.
2. I loved working with my peer groups and teams.
3. I like some of the off campus activities they had for the students.
4. I like the fact that they allowed me to use my skill to apply to the job as much as I wanted. Which allowed me to be real with the students.
Things I disliked:
1. the pay sucks.
2. The place is ran like a dictatorship. If you did not do what the owner or some admin said you would get the axe.
3. I did not like some of the reason I had to put a student on restrictions for. Such as relationships, not writing fallout, and some more but thats all I can think of right now.
4. I did not like the fact that I had to do AC staff work such as go to the airport, cover dorms, cover activities, sit a lake front all fucking day or lower left all day long.
5. I did not like the fact that they changed the schedule and required counselors to work at least one evening in the week.
6. I did not like the fact that during the winter we did not have heat in the counselor building.
7. I did not like the fact that they did not allow student to watch certain music but allowed to them to listen to others that glorifyied sex, drugs, and alcohol also.
8. It was alot of indirect racism.
9. I hated the lodge food. Especially the soup special maggot soup.
10. I have more but I cannot think of them right now.
I never saw childern being abused. When they were on restricitons they had to do alot of PT, cleaning up, writing assignments, and they were not allowed to have certain drinks at dinner and peanut butter sandwiches. But they were allowed to eat regular dinners or fix a cold cut sandwich or salad. The work for a counselor is so over bearing that it makes them very unhappy because we are not appreciated and we have no voice. We are over worked with two peer groups. The benefits suck. I left because the job was taking away from my family and they are more important than anything in my life. I wanted to pursue a career in coaching and teaching. I'm also going back to school to first get certified to teach and to get my Ph.d. in Educational Leadership.
If you have any question I would like to answer them but I'm only going to talk about my experiences.
revengeofamuffin:
So you were a staff? I think that is cool that you knew Daryl and all them. They were the reason I was able to stand that place for so long. Jenine was soo amaing also. There were a few staff that made living there bearable. Laura, John (The redhead), those sort of people. I think that is really cool that you were friends with them. But I have to ask you why you were only there for a few months. Staff come and go a lot there, but that is a really short period of time to stay. Were you a counselor or an activities person or what?
PS: Jason was the most amazing black guy ever. Is he still there?
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Don't believe everything you read on the internet.[ This Message was edited by: revengeofamuffin on 2005-04-21 06:27 ]
Macaroni3001:
I was a counselor there and I also coached basketball. Jason left about 4-5 months ago to do volunteer work some where. Daryl and I are real close friends now. did you work there and if so when. Please believe I know no to believe everything on here, because some things are exagerrated.
SHH Anon Classics:
She was a student there
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