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My Son At Thayer
Anonymous:
Search for "Cptnemo". You will find the posts. Cptnemo
Watchaduen:
He left for Thayer at 6:00 am on morning. The police came for him at 2:00 pm that afternoon. I explained that he was out of state and that I would not tell them where. The left empty handed and not happy to have missed him.
My son's opinion (not mine, his) is that he would be dead by now if not for Thayer.
Again, my context is most likely very different than yours. So my question is, what would you have done?>>>
The biggest question remains? Why did you become the Judge, Jury and decide the sentence? Was there something wrong with letting your son suffer the consequences of his actions? He was carrying a gun around and the police/justice was planning on holding him accountable. You, Foolish Parent instead paid enormous amounts of money to have him beaten, tortured and enslaved in a cult. A place that would later take a child's life.
Anonymous:
I am sorry about what happaned to your son. My context is only about Thayer. I know nothing of other programs and thus cannot comment. My son was not treated badly at Thayer and grew from the experience -- a report that it seems no one on this site wants to hear. Cptnemo
Antigen:
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"I am sorry about what happaned to your son. My context is only about Thayer. I know nothing of other programs and thus cannot comment. My son was not treated badly at Thayer and grew from the experience -- a report that it seems no one on this site wants to hear. Cptnemo"
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It's just hard to believe. Why would your son have been treated so differently from all the other kids? I'm tempted to make some off color jokes about that, but I won't.
I can easily understand a lot of different reasons why your son might not tell you the whole truth about Thayer. And those seems a whole lot more likely than that he actually was treated better than all the rest.
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of it's victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busy-bodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those that torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C.S. Lewis, God In The Dock
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Antigen:
Cptnemo, what would have happened if the cops had gotten him? He probably would have spent some time in juvy. Talk about discipline and bullying! It would likely have been traumatic. He might even have been raped (it does happen). And, more than likely, he would have turned himself around.
Or what if he had been shot and spent an extended and painful stretch in hospital and physical rehab? That might have had the same effect.
Or what if he had been hit by a bus? Same thing.
Does that make it a good idea to throw a troubled kid out in front of a bus, hoping for that catharsis that near death and adversity sometimes brings? Talk to Roberto Ramerez parents before you go on about how worthwhile the Program has been to your son. He survived it. Good for him! But that doesn't mean it's anything but a desperate, foolish and very expensive scam.
Speak gently! 't is a little thing Dropp'd in the heart's deep well; The good, the joy, that it may bring Eternity shall tell.
-- G. W. Langford: Speak gently.
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