Hi,
I would like to hear more from survivors who attended Boulder Creek Academy (merged with Rocky Mountain Academy in 2005), Ascent, or Northwest Academy in the recent past, late 2005 - present.
I am trying to get a handle on what has changed or remained the same since they were acquired by Universal Health Services--based on personal accounts from those who have been there. I can tell there are many of the same staff members, including the director and ed. director, but am looking for more info on the program itself.
I have looked at the Daily Schedule at the BCA site
http://https://www.bouldercreekacademy.net/campus/dailyschedule.pdf (I believe I found that thanks to Covergaard) and can see they are still using terms like "raps" and "last light" (and christ what a lot of chores you kids had to do, and never sleeping in, and having nearly every minute of time scheduled -- so sorry you had to go through that).
I'd really appreciate firsthand accounts from those who were there recently. Some are suggesting that the CEDU schools have "shut down." See, for example, Sept/Oct 2007 edition of
Mother Jones Magazine, article entitled "School of Shock." (It's mostly about The Rotenberg Center in Canton, Mass.--be careful, my friends, it's very disturbing.) Online edition is by subscription only or I would post a link, but you can find it at
http://http://www.motherjones.com for a fee. "Shut down" is, of course, only half true; CEDU was sold to UHS, who near as I can tell are operating the schools using the same program model as before. Do any of you know details?
Thanks,
AuntieEm