Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > Mission Mountain School
To Each Her Own
Anonymous:
I don't think lawsuits are the only way to bring about change, but some girls didn't have grand experience of gettin help from Colleen to get into great college, etc, etc, etc. and just had the bad for the most part- bad bad bad. I say more power to them, get your justice where you can! I don't see it as reasonable to expect someone in that position to find any good to come out of just talking to someone they felt really fucked up by. Maybe if they felt more like you about the good aspects- that they somewhat out weighed the bad then perhaps, but doesn't appear that way.
You say you would like to address these issues, but are scared, guess what I'm saying is that's part of the problem- the intimidation and need for approval. Just like the nightmares- on the one hand we call all say to ourselves, how stupid is this, I'm scared- but yet the fear remains b/c that's the way things were set up and I can't imagine the school would function as a well greased wheel any other way. John has been doing this for 15 years, I really don't see anything changing by having a handful of girls talking to him about it- but Ashlee, maybe you're right...?
Don't know- maybe we can come up with a list of things we all feel should change at MMS and submit it for them to review and see what John says, what do you think?
Anonymous:
I bet they might be willing to look at something like that if it meant helping to stop the negativity about the school. Who knows? Im sure that they are not happy with forums like this and if taking some critisim from past students could help with getting some of this anger out maybe they would listen? Or maybe they would throw them all away without reading them? Im sure that its probably a long shot for making big changes, but I bet it would make a lot of us feel better. I don't even know if a list would do it, maybe each person could write a MMS "history" :smile: . I think that I would probably feel better if I did that and sent it too them. I know MMS has gotten very mixed messages from me about my experience there since I left, thats due to a lot of confusion and fear on my part. I think what I want more then anything is to be at peace with that time in my life and for some reason I can't just find that peace. I've tried, and Im not a screwed up person really anymore, Im pretty normal so its not that I blame them for anything wrong in my life now. I just can't figure out why I still think about it so often and why I get such "yucky" (for lack of a better word) feelings about it. I just know that bashing and lawsuits are not what I need to find that peace. Or maybe no one ever feels at peace with thier teenage years period? I don't know, its still all very confusing to me, and its been seven years since I left.
Ashlee
Anonymous:
Hello girls,
Wow, it's been a while. I attended MMS from 97-99. I would love to get in contact with some old friends I still hold dear to my heart. What we went through up there isn't quite like anything else, huh? I think we should stick together. Please email me lleezell@yahoo.com. Hope you all are doing well.
Laura Ezell
BIRDLADY360:
I AM LOOKING FOR ALUMNI WHO WERE AT MMS WHEN MIA SCHIMMEL ATTENDED. DO YOU REMEMBER HER? WHAT HAPPENED TO HER ?
Anonymous:
I was there with Mia and shes one of the few who Ive never heard anything about after I left.
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