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Remember what assume means right?

I'm sorry.  

Why is being disrespectful characterizable as an emergency situation? You're not supposed to be robotically obedient. Not when you're a kid, a teen, or an adult. If you are, your life is going to be hard

And, what defines "disrespectful" is so subjective....Why not institutionalize people for being annoying, while we're at it?

If we institutionalized people for being annoying, there wouldn't be anybody left in the real world.... :rofl:

so you are saying Academy at Swift River gives the kids complete freedom to say anything to you without repercussions??? very very very hard to believe... of course, you being a parent wouldn't know because you are there in the program.... My parents never knew about the threats either... until recently (which is over 20 years after the experience)

personally, I think it would be really hard to be her teen and NOT be disrespectful to her... no offense, but I just can't help thinking like that as I watch that oh so dorky video. :lol:

Might the WHO be the alter ego of another common poster around here who appears to be on the right side?  Is it boredom that motivates this person? Hmmm....

Highschool, grades 9 thru 12.

If abuse occurs in our school district the kid tells the parent. The parent tells the principle/police and the principle sends letters out to all the parents updating them on what has occurred and action taken. Most private schools follow the same procedures. The staff member or teacher themselves who committed the offense isnt going to notify anyone except from jail.

I figured they would call themselves grades 9-12... I was asking more specifically about the actual curriculum....

As far as in your public school district.... you said the kid tells the parent.  See, this is my point.  In day-only schools, the kids are free to come home and tell a parent.  In residential treatment, they are NOT free to go home and they are in every case I've ever heard of NOT free to tell their parents anything they want to, due to repercussions, that will follow the so-called "telling."  Not to mention, the staff have already told the parents in advanced not to believe anything the kid says because it is "manipulation" on the part of the kid to try to get out of the program.  So the child is stuck any way you look at it, there are NO checks and balances in place at all at these crazy programs.

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Does she really talk to her kids that way?  What a mouth on her or is it a he?

Nope.  My kids are great people.  I only reserve that tone for program shills, as that's how I was taught to relate to people while I was incarcerated in Straight.  That's how most kids are spoken to in programs.  Gotta break 'em down before you can build 'em back up, right?

Um... when did they ever build us back up? I remember the breaking down (more like destroying) part... but building up? It just doesn't happen..... (Not directed at Anne, I know she knows, but just for clarification, for people who are so taken by program b.s. that they forget what really goes on--or never knew in the first place..)

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Why not ask to speak to the other half of the parents who pulled their children out, and find out their viewpoints? Thereby giving yourself a more BALANCED view of the program.

I try to keep in touch the best I can to see how others are doing.

There were 4 parents I know of that pulled there kids.  2 of them them their kids got pregnant, single moms, within a year of leaving without even a GED ages 16 and 15 (?).  A boy who was replaced into another program within 6 months of leaving (lost touch), up in Maine somewhere.  The 4th I never heard from again.



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Can you attempt to answer the other 6 questions too please?