Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > The Ridge Creek School / Hidden Lake Academy
Methods and Techniques
Antigen:
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On 2005-04-22 14:17:00, Anonymous wrote:
"If a child runs off campus, what would you suggest would be the best policy? Let them walk and then call the parents? Let them walk and then call the law? What if they are 14 or 15. What would you suggest the safest way to handle that situation would be? As a parent, I would want to be notified immediately, and the law notified immediately as well to try to find my child.This is clearly not just a "dropping out of school" issue if they live on the campus of a boarding school. I would like some opinion on this subject as to the best scenario for this sort of situation."
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Ok, first and foremost, before the kid walks off in the first place, examine what's so bad about the place that so many kids decide to take the risk. And what's the penalty for running away? Is it more-or-less reasonable and in line w/ the "crime" of ducking class to go for a walk? I suspect it's not. Every other Synanon based program that I know about employs a sort of re-initiation to deter escape attempts. Having split twice during my time w/ Straight, I spent many hours weighing the relative risks and benefits of turning myself in.
I once hitchhiked all the way down through Florida (took 4 days) and arrived hungry, tired and just out of steam and ideas. I wanted to talk to my brother and see if he could put me up w/ a friend or something so I could stay out till I came of age in another year and a half or so. I made it as close to home as the back yard of a neighbor at the end of the street, about 4 doors down. I ate a grapefruit, wished desperately that oranges or star fruit had been in season cause the grapefruit really burned my long empty stomach. I hid in the bushes, slept a little but mostly watched the house till nightfall, weighing the risk of getting busted by a neighbor or my dad if I tried going to the house. Eventually, I decided it wasn't worth the risk and turned around and hitchhiked all the way back out of Florida.
I remember a good many other kids having done desperate things to stay out. As far as I know, there's a young man named Wayne who split from BCA (or another CEDU gulag) who was last seen months ago in the San Francisco area. I'm pretty sure his mom and dad have realized their big mistake and would not return him. But I doubt very seriously if the kid would ever believe it if they promised on their dead ancestors' names.
In other words, that jingoistic method of detering escape attempts often backfires and workes as a powerful deterrant to voluntary return.
They know that it is human nature to take up causes whereby a man may oppress his neighbor, no matter how unjustly. ... Hence they have had no trouble in finding men who would preach the damnability and heresy of the new doctrine from the very pulpit.
--Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer
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juniper:
Dysfunction Junction,
If you were truly privy to this info from
working with the school, why didn't you turn
them in to the Feds? And, Robert Bruce, did you
or your family sue the school or go to Child Services?
Anonymous:
Yes, most of the research shows that grouping adolescents together in detention, psych hospitals or treatment programs can make them worse-- they learn new maladaptive behaviors. Least restrictive treatment in the community is still the best option. We need real services in the community that these kids can turn to though, and a humane, relevant public educational system.
Troll Control:
Turn WHO in to what FEDS? This doesn't make any sense.
I never saw anything illegal (as far as I know). I did see lots of unethical and immoral things. Those issues I brought directly to the executive staff. As I have said earlier, most, if not all complaints by staff, kids or parents were either poo-pooed or ignored.
Part of the problem with these places, Juniper, is that there are very varied and unclear "rules" for their operation. Often times the states simply ignore the deficiencies and "certify" them anyway, as in the case of another program in Ohio that was recently found in violation of dozens of state laws and regulations, but, inexplicably, was re-certified by the state.
Need I remind you that YOUR CHILD is there right now and you're not acting on what you can surely control yourself? Why aren't you getting your kid and calling the "Feds"?
juniper:
Feds, yes we are working on it. First you have
Environmental, ORS, DCFS,and the list goes on...
The point I am trying to make is why wasn't
anything done? Everyone comes on here and complains, shares their experiences, but I'd
like to know if anyone has pursued a law suit
against HLA, turned them in to DCFS, contacted
ORS, ACLU checking Human RIghts Violations,
called State of Georgia DOE with complaints, etc.
If they did what happened? When I call, they have no registered complaints. The "FEDS" do get
involved.For Deborah, RobertBruce and everyone else, http://www.ISACCORP.org register your complaints.
They are pro-active in helping shut down the
schools that are violating child safety laws, along with fraud, etc. Please e-mail them
about any school placing children in harms way.
Contact Shelby Earnshaw, http://www.isaccorp.org.
I understand what you are saying about reading between HLA's words, they try to cover themselves
and apparently do very well. However, right is right, maybe naive, but I believe in the human spirit and abuse is not just physical. Thanks
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