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My Son At Thayer
Anonymous:
Yes, this is Nemo and I am a father.
Thayer uses the American School of Correspondence for its high school. They have been around since the late 19th century. They are accredited. Thus, one does not get a "Thayer Diploma", but one rather from the American School.
While my son was accepted at three universities, we applied to more. No university questioned the American School Diploma. Should you be interested, you can check out their website.
Best Regards, Nemo
SPEAKINGOUT:
The answer to your question is no, I am not against all theraputic schools. There is certainly a place for them, and I do work with parents referred to me to try to help them find a good one when that's what they need. I am not an Education Consultant by trade, just a better educated parent about these programs. After what I went through with Thayer I have a sharper eye for the bull, and know how to ask the right questions of the right people, and do a little background on it all.
Sending your child away to a boarding school is always (or should always be) a last resort.
The people who post (for the most part) on this board are parents of rescued Thayer students. It's not that we don't believe in the programs- cuz we sent our kid there. Now, some parents are so scared that they NO LONGER believe that there is a "good" program out there, and they don't even care if there is because their kid is so freaked out now that they don't want to send them away in fear that they might not get them back (like the Reyes boy).
you said: "The people who drive me crazy are the ones who would discard adulthood and just let kids do what they will, like it's all good to throw away their futures and we should all say "Well it's their choice". I won't. Never. "
of course I agree with you- so do most of the other parents on this sight (i know most of them myself). The ones that don't well- then why are they on this sight in the first place?
You also said: "BTW I don't care about Devlin's grammar or Nemo's refusal to talk about universities (sorry Nemo, I thought you were a mom, I guess you're a dad, my mistake), these seem like small issues, I care about encouraging parents to act like grown-ups-- and I guess that my point is that I don't see enough of them here on this thread."
If you are in fact trying to help another parent decide what they should do with their child then you SHOULD care about the academic aspect of the program- unless of course a good education doesn't matter. Now, you will notice that Nemo posted AGAIN after our posts and STILL DID NOT NAME the Universities. It is important because many of us have been told that it is worthless, and that the universities will not accept it. I wouldn't KNOW first hand BECAUSE MY SON did not get ANY CREDITS from them- ask around how many kids did- and if they actually got accepted to a University, WHICH ONES??????????????????????????
Something else to note about Nemo was that he considered his son well adjusted because he was getting A's AND LAID SEVERAL TIMES A WEEK.
Is that a parent acting like a grown-up?
Want to know what Nemo is going to do when the son that he is so proud of for his active sex life contracts some lifetime STD, or gets a girl pregnant, or worse- gets AIDS. Then he will really have something to deal with.
I also care about the stuff going on at Thayer and other schools like it because it is wrong, and kids are being neglected, abused and in some instances killed. No matter how bad a child is they do not deserve to be treated like that.
I've said my peace here. Hope that it's clear.
Anonymous:
Nemo,
I'll say it straight up, unless you are referring to community colleges as universities you are a liar. The American Schools program is completely worthless in gaining entrance to any university.
Parent of Thayer victim
Antigen:
You can settle this pretty easily. Call around some major universities and ask if they accept American Schools diplomas or not.
Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
--Thomas Paine
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Anonymous:
The American Schools have a website that is easily accessed by a google search, apparently they offer two programs, a college prep one and a general one.
As far as I could see they did not list any stats about how many of their grads go to college but I didn't look around their site exhaustively so I may have missed something
But you know, it's true that lots of kids who are home-schooled get into college, largely on the basis of SAT and other college-entrance exam scores---so I'd bet that if the American Schools curriculum prepares a kid adequately enough to score well on these kinds of tests they're going to get in---but calling and asking registrars at universities and colleges would be an easy way to sure about this.
Question remains: how important are the academics when you've got a kid in crisis, I mean, education is relatively important and all, but you can always pick up additional course work later on.
To me, the main thing is whether the therapeutic school (Thayer or any other) helps the kid stop being self destructive and helps to develop self love and acceptance. I get that some people here don't think that Thayer is good in that department and some do.
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