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Does this sound familiar to anyone?

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Antigen:

--- Quote ---On 2005-04-09 11:31:00, Couture wrote:

"what is OMR?"

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Open Meeting Review.

Cayo and I were both in Straight. It was structured a bit differently from Whitmore. There were always some out of town kids (I was one, in Sarasota from the Ft. Lauderdale area about 4 hours away) We were in the building from early in the morning till at least 8 or so at night every day, then "home" either to your parents' house w/ necomers and/or out of town kids or to the home of someone in town or on a higher phase if you were a newcomer.

This would go on for many months till you reached a high enough phase to go to school or work, then to have a couple of days off a week, when you still had to go to the building to pick up newcomers and fosters and devote the rest of your evening to the Program at home.

Twice a week, we had Open Meeting then OMR from around 6 - well into the wee hours. Parents and prospective marks would assemble on one side of the room facing group on the other. Then we'd go through the ritual introductions, structured sort of like an AA meeting. Afterward, we'd split up; parents to one part of the building and group to the other. Parents rap was all about parents and staff criticizing and confronting parents for their perceived failings and weaknesses (not following the Program) and OMR for the kids was just the same. It was a time to fear being stood up and confronted for any little thing and a time to lay into whoever did get stood up or risk getting put on the spot yourself.

These were called rip raps or come down raps or bust ass raps. OMR wasn't the only time a rap could turn ugly like this. But it was damned near a certainty at OMR.

What experiences and history teach is this-that people and government never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.

--G.W.F Hegel (1770-1831)
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Anonymous:

--- Quote ---On 2005-04-09 12:01:00, Gmom wrote:

"I think the girl you are talking about is Leah.  Do you remember her?"

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The girl I am talking about??  I don't think i ever knew a Leah?? unless, was she a neighbor girl?  Yeah, I don't really remember any of the neighbor kids names. And there was no Leah, student, there while I was there.

Gmom:
When were you there?

Cayo Hueso:

--- Quote ---On 2005-04-09 11:14:00, Antigen wrote:

"Cayo, how much does this remind you of OMR
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OMG...that's all I was thinking when I read this!!!  The degradation, the humiliation.  Some things never change!
Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me, and drink as I.
-- William Oldys (1696-1761): On a Fly drinking out of a Cup of Ale.

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Couture:

--- Quote ---On 2005-04-09 13:10:00, Gmom wrote:

"When were you there?"

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I am sorry, I thought I was signed in....  I was there in 02.

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