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« on: March 21, 2009, 01:50:31 PM »
Your kid is in college.
Good for him.
How is he going to reconcile his experience in 3, 5, 10, 15 years?
Oh that's right.
You don't have a plan for that.
I'll never forget Doug Kim Brown, the 1990 headmaster of RMA, telling me how he responded to his most vexing 'treatment' question from 'outsiders'.
What if the kid does well for a few years after graduation, and then fucks up. What if he really fucks up and is no better off?
His canned response was:
"These parents desperately wanted their (normal) kid back, these parents wanted to make things right, WE GAVE them that result. Even if it was for just 2 years".
I remember him telling me that - that answer was magnificent.
It was "The Answer".
Healing, therapeutic, applicable, 'one in a million', .
His sermon verified my hollow and purchased redemption.
Resolution.
I was in complete reverance of that statement for 15 years (as you are now).
Now it is clear. Doug bought into the program in the beginning, felt he was doing his best. And soon realized it was a CEDU crock of shit.
The justification justified short term profit. It just justified the means to your end.
If you come here to fornits to claim we are all degenerates. If you come here to claim that there are now 'plenty' of good programs. Then you are obligated to address the malfesance of the industry's foundation.
Your well spent money on your fixed kid is a direct result of the guinea pigging of the 70's, 80's and the 90's.
Their is a wake of destruction with kids who went through the programs in that era.
Stand up and take accountability for your holy grail.
Wake up and smell the aftermath.
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