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Once attended Whitmore.... unsatisfied

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Antigen:
Welcome, Couture. This is just what we need around here.  
As democracy is perfected, the office of President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people.   On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
--H.L. Mencken
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Joyce Harris:
Hi Couture,

So glad you posted your response. All of you former students offer a perspective that is very helpful...
I did experience a keen feeling of "competition" from Cheryl regarding our daughter--like you described. I think it might have something to do with the odd "sense of FAMILY" there at Whitmore..a type of FAMILY that just does not make sense to me. Several people who post refer to it as cult-like.

Our daughter also "confessed things" ACCORDING TO CHERYL that just were not true. So now, after what you said, it is a little more clear.
Stay active when you have time--students and parents have lots to ask and talk about.

Cayo Hueso:

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I think she wanted to make it seem like I almost liked her better so i would confide in her.  She was in constant competition with my parents.  She was always telling me how i didn't belong in a program, and my parents just didn't like my company and that is why they must have sent me off.  
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Did this seem to be common?  Are you aware of her doing this with any of the other kids?  We've heard some of the kids posting from Whitmore go really over the top in the "family" references to the Suds.  That has concerned me from the start and now to read what you've written re-inforces that.
Whenever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.
Thomas Jefferson: Kentucky Resolutions, 1798

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Couture:
I do not know of it happening with any of the other kids.  I only found out after I got home.  She would play both sides, though, a lot; she would talk to my parents as though she were on their side, and have them confide in her, and then she would tell me what they said and pretend to be on my side.  All it did was create chaos between my parents and me.  

Sheryl used to let me drive her car, and rental cars.  This was totally illegal, considering I was not insured on the vehicles, and my Parents told her not to let me drive. They started to see the Whitmore as basically a vacation.  No school work was ever mandated, and I got to go out most of the time.  She would tell me not to tell them certain things of what she let me do because they would not approve.  Another instance was he letting me call my friends from her cell phone.  My parents had clearly stated they did not want me to have contact with my old friends becaus they thought it would be a negative influence.  Whether I agreed with them or not, it was still wrong of her to blatently defy what they had told her.  

Does it seem to any of the pther alumni that Sheryl had a thing for pretty people?  I am a decent looking female, and when I showed up at the Whitmore, Sheryl frequently expressed how beautiful she thought I was.  It seemed to me like she would treat the better looking people better than someone that was not so fortunate.  

Something else that is kind of interesting.  I remember how sometimes girls would only get 1/2 serving of food because Sheryl thought they were gaining weight.  She would make reference to one of the students, 'You don't want to become like so and so, do you?'

Anonymous:
Yes, Cheryl had a thing against "fat girls," I understand--but then she did nothing about an adequate diet to help control the weight. One mom says she even gave the chubby girls diet pills, a very dangerous act to engage in.
Other kids have talked about being allowed to drive without having a driver's license, too.

How did you feel about this type of conflict? Cheryl being an adult, who was paid by your parents, and put in a position of trust, and responsibility with a minor---YET, Cherly was deceitful, untrustworthy, and manipulative, and actually was engaging in illegal activities--by letting you drive w/o insurance, etc.
What were you thinking, while all this was going on?

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