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The Troubled Teen Industry / Appeal for calm and reason.
« on: February 16, 2007, 11:33:41 AM »
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See why he's too stupid to be worth talking to, people?
QuoteI am assuming you were trying to be funny, but your comparisons do not reflect the reality of programs, sorry to be the one to inform you of that.
No actually I wasnt. This was our experience at a TBS, you seem to have attended some place different. This is why I try to tell parents to look around and do their homework before choosing a path for their child. These schools can run full spectrum.....
In a PS kids are exposed to violence
In a TBS they are not
In a PS kids are exposed to Drugs
In a TBS they are not
In a PS kids are ridiculed by teachers and other kids for being different
In a TBS they are not
In a PS kids parents can typically only get updates on their child?s development a few times a year
In a TBS parents get weekly updates.
In a PS kids are given detention (held after school against their will) for breaking the rules.
In a TBS they are not but are given writing assignments instead or more constructive ways to spend their time.
This one seems wierd, but it happens a lot. Koreans don't have much in the way of body hair so on occasion you look down and they are petting your arm with a look on their face that goes along the line of.. "It's furry like my dog!"
I just happened to get lucky when I took this photo. The girl was paying attention more to my arm than my other hand with the camera.
Advice number two: (If the first one does not work)
a) Rent a cabin for a weekend.
b) Write a impact letter.
c) Hire an escort company to take him for a detour before he ends up at the cabin where you have arrived before him. See too that your car is not at the cabin, so he has to stay there.
d) Use the weekend to talk the impact letter over with him
I have to ask, why would anyone want to improve on the model of such a clusterfuck like CEDU? What is the desire to make a bad thing better? I'm sorry but in mind if that program is broke and busted for a reason then good riddance to it. Lets try not to recreate it and improve on it when the core underlying model is still pretty much the same.
Dr. Phil- The circumstances you describe would not warrant sending a kid away. Also, I don't believe there are thousands of parents wanting to find a placement for a struggling teen- I could be wrong, but that seems high. I didn't look at the other two schools we considered, so I can't say if I would have found them OK at the end of the day. Carlbrook seemed to suit what we wanted- at least based on the initial visit and information we got.
I really think every kid's situation is different. Many will agree to family counseling or good local therapy. Some need a rehab program for substance abuse (short term). I am not a psychologist, so I can't say, but I actually have only recommended Carlbrook to a few people- those who had a pretty mild mannered kid who was in wilderness at the time and the family was looking for a TBS with pretty strong academics.
This may come as a total shock, but there are many other people out there that think DJ, Deborah and their lemmings are blowing it out their ass. I am not Karen or Anne and have never posted on ST, whatever that is.
I happen to know people connected with the industry and know that most of what is posted on this forum is excellent fiction- nothing more.
Keep up the good work, guys. Pat each other on the ass and lie to yourselves and each other.
This forum and the whole site is dying a quiet death.
I recently talked to two kids who came out of HLA within the last year and both thought it was fine. They didn't like it because of all the restrictions, but they thought the program did a good job with emotional growth. One girl had an eating disorder and went on to a regular boarding school and the other kid got pulled early due to financial reasons and went into the Marines. Neither kid was abused or damaged in any way.
DJ is full of shit. As are you, Milk Gargling Paul, Luke, Nihil
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A bill introduced into the Connecticut legislature is more specific. It would require that all parents who are requested by the school to have their child evaluated be first provided with a statement that the government does not recommend any particular checklist, assessment or evaluation for psychiatric or psychological disorders, plus a copy of the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (the federal law that requires prior written parental consent before schools can require students to submit to psychological or psychiatric testing or treatment).