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Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Anonymous on February 07, 2006, 03:00:00 AM

My son with whom I spent 12 years with, informed me that he wanted to live with his father, when I was moving to another location.  I let him, why not, he wanted to and I trusted his dad.  A year and 1/2 later his father enrolled him in Darrington Academy affiliate of the WWASP programs without consulting me or my son, he told him he was taking him on a trip and simply dropped him off many miles away from home. My son does not have a criminal record and has never done drugs and is not violent.  At first, I complied with my x and his rich  wife so I may find out more about this program, I even went to the disturbing discovery and focus seminars..I was told I must do this to see my son.  Then my X decided that he wasnt moving up fast enough so 7 months later told me he was going to send him to Tranquility bay, that is where I drew the line I am going thru a court battle to get my son removed from the school...I cannot have any contact with him (not that I have since he went in)they have banished me completely saying I dont believe in the program and I am giving up on my son.  Truth is..he does not belong there, in my opinion, no child does. So why am I posting..I need any information that anyone may have on Darrington Academy..I have researched til my fingers were bruised came up with nothing but a few web pages that didnt amount to much. I cannot believe I have complied this long with my X husband  :wstupid: But...no more.  Thank God I have stopped him from leaving the country with my son so he cannot send him to Tranquility but the rest is left up to the courts, I pray thay will find him in contempt of court for taking him away without my permission and not letting me see him on my visitation. It would not bother me 1 bit to see him rot in Jail. Any information would be greatly appreciated.

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Nihilanthic on February 07, 2006, 03:48:00 AM

Do you not have joint custody? If so it should be that easy, unless you have a retard for a family court judge. Sorry to say, there are a few of them, but OTOH there are plenty of perfectly salient, intelligent judges sitting as well.

But, well, if its not, look at what ISAC has to say:

http://www.isaccorp.org/documentsam.html#darrington (http://www.isaccorp.org/documentsam.html#darrington)

At the very least, its just another WWASPS program with the stupid LGAT type seminar mindfucks. Taking him out would be the best thing you could do.

But, at any rate, do you not have visitation rights? This makes no sense... something isn't adding up. The program can NOT dictate to you the terms of when you see your child, or not! If you have to, call the Sheriffs office in that part of Georgia and show up with a uniformed LEO!

A PROGRAM CAN NOT TAKE CUSTODY FROM YOU! HE IS YOUR SON!

Anyway, why would a court make hime stay there if nothing is wrong with hime anyway?

Everything that people say to you is personal. Whether it is constructive criticism or not will determine whether it cam from and asshole or not.

----Bill Warbis

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Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Anonymous on February 07, 2006, 09:31:00 AM

Unless you lost custody of your son during a divorce, I would think you could simply drive to Darrington, and pick him up.

While locked away in another WWASP gulag, my mother was in a similar situation. They used all kind of threats against her to keep her from helping me, and they were all lies. Vicious, horrible lies... standard WWASP tactics it seems.

Hopefully someone with more direct knowledge can answer, but as a former prisoner, in a similar situation as your son -- I want to thank you for trying to save your son. Thank goodness he wasn't sent to Tranquility bay.

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Anonymous on February 07, 2006, 11:14:00 AM

Thank you for the reply, when my son wanted to go live with his dad, yes I signed over custody, but it is still "joint" him being primary.  Right now my lawyer told me to just sit back, everything he is doing will be held against him he is in contempt d/t the fact he has neglected to let me see, talk or have any contact with my son unless I send him the letter first via email and he changes it as he sees fit.  This "program" attempted to brainwash me in the seminars..my X is definately programmed in a bad way..I have 5 other kids here all make good grades and are as dysfunctional as any other normal family.  I made a mistake 2 years ago in listening to my son when he said he wanted to live with his dad. I had no idea he would send him to a brainwashing "cult". Thank you for the website, it has been very helpful.

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: CCM girl 1989 on February 07, 2006, 11:23:00 AM

I hope you are able to get your son back. Keep me/us up to date!

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Anonymous on February 07, 2006, 11:24:00 AM

Well you are a perfect person to answer my post, you are what I call a survivor!

The only people I have spoken to are graduates when I went to the seminars..all they could say is that "the program saved my life" That was such BS, since then I learned that the MUST say this in order to graduate..it just amazes me that kids are not forced to go to these places by a judge the parents actually PAY 40,000.00 per year to have their children treated this way! Paying for your child to be mentally abused seems to be a bit harsh.  
I assume that your mom told you the truth about everything when you finally got to see her and all is much better with you..at least I hope thats the case.   just wish I could contact my son and say....look, im getting you out of there, fight em off and bite the bullet..im thinkin in his valentine box ill slip a note in a sucker..grr his dad will surely look thru the whole thing with a fine tooth comb..and if he dont catch it..my sons other mother at the school will.  Grr  :flame:  soorry I was thinking outloud :silly:
Thank you again for your reply...gives me hope.

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Anonymous on February 07, 2006, 11:26:00 AM

I will definately let EVERYONE know, thank you

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: BuzzKill on February 07, 2006, 12:21:00 PM

I'm not sure I agree with your lawyer.

I mean - I guess it is the Proper thing to do - work it through the courts - but I really don't see why you can't just go get the boy. Then work it through the courts. While your waiting on court dates and judges decisions - there he sits. He's your son. You have parental rights. Exercise them.

Go in with a camera rolling - and demand they produce him. Take him straight to a doctor for a complete physical.

Ask your lawyer why you can't do that? He is your son - you never were declared unfit - you still have joint parental rights - why can't you just go get the boy?

Do you think these people are going to follow "the rules" - play fair? Does your lawyer think so? If so, he might want to do a little research.

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Anonymous on February 07, 2006, 01:04:00 PM

I am calling my lawyer to ask....but no I am not unfit but maybe I have been sort of programmed..I believed that since my x husband has primary custody ..that since he enrolled him..the schools rules say I am an imposter and I have no rights to my son..of course that was the direction that my x husband gave them..and he pays for all of this with the new wifes checkbook!

Never thought of your idea...and ill get back to you with what he said.

Thanks

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Deborah on February 07, 2006, 01:25:00 PM

Doesn't matter that he has primary custody. You still have court ordered rights which he violated without revising the existing order.
Your rights supercede the program policy. That is a fact. He, nor the program, can ignore those rights without a court order.
Show up on your regularly scheduled weekend. Remove your son, and file for primary custody based on your ex's obvious total disregard of you and your son's rights. He has not acted responsibly in that regard and should not be allowed to remain primary custodian.
Act offensively, not defensively. The longer you wait, the longer they have to build their case for your son needing 'treatment'.

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Anonymous on February 07, 2006, 03:38:00 PM

Geeze, you make me feel better than my lawyer...that sounds like excellent advice, I have no idea why I never thought of that before.  I have called my lawyer and asked him to fax a copy of my visitation rights.  We live 6 hrs away from eachother and for 2 years I have only had my son on holidays and summer, spring break.  Spring break is coming up but I hope not to wait that long, the decree should read every other weekend, but we made arrangements outside the court.  I cannot tell you how much I appreciate you and all of the other people who cared enough to post!

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Anonymous on February 07, 2006, 03:41:00 PM

Anon - you said the graduates HAD to say the Program saved their life to graduate.  Well, so how do you explain them saying the program saved their life AFTER they graduated?  No carrot there anymore, so maybe it is true??

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Anonymous on February 07, 2006, 03:52:00 PM

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On 2006-02-07 12:41:00, Anonymous wrote:

"Anon - you said the graduates HAD to say the Program saved their life to graduate.  Well, so how do you explain them saying the program saved their life AFTER they graduated?  No carrot there anymore, so maybe it is true??"

Did you miss the part about being psychologically and emotionally influenced (ie brainwashing, tortured) in a never-ending barrage of LGAT seminars for over a year, sometimes several?  Is it THAT surprising this effect caries over for a few years after graduation... or in a VERY select few, indefinitely?

You see, the sad part is... brainwashinig works. It works quite well in fact. WWASP does not use carrots, ever. Don't you get that? They ONLY USE THE STICK. There never was any carrot, only an isolation hole to suffer in, as long as it took to break your spirit, as Lichfield stated. Are you familiar with how WWASP programs work? No carrot, sorry... would of LOVED a carrot, believe me. You either do what they say, act like they say, and start believing what they say or you GET THE STICK.

So it's not about carrots... it's about fear, intimidation and coercion. Deprivation, isolation and spitit-breaking. This is WWASP's ideology and 'therapy'. You support this?

Sadly, some kids embrace the ideology (for whatever reason) and abuse the lower level students. Perhaps these are the select few who NEED to support the program to deal with their own personal demons. Whatever reason, they are very far and few between. The recent rise of anti-wwasp internet groups shows this quite clear.

Over a thousand ex-prisoners of WWASP registered at various websites, and not one who is pro-wwasp. Kind of lonely out there isn't it?

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Anonymous on February 07, 2006, 04:19:00 PM

I wonder what the president of WWASP has to say about the treatment his company is offering?

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During a period in 2002 when he'd split with WWASPS, he told the Rocky Mountain News' Kilzer: "These people are basically a bunch of untrained people who work for this organization. So they don't have any credentials of any kind. We could be leading these kids to long-term problems that we don't have a clue about because we're not going about it in the proper way ... How in the hell can you call yourself a behavior-modification program -- and that's one of the ways it's marketed -- when nobody has the expertise to determine, is this good, is this bad?"

Interesting.

http://alternet.org/module/printversion/31000 (http://alternet.org/module/printversion/31000)

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Anonymous on February 07, 2006, 04:28:00 PM

I agree with you completely..I witnessed 3 of the numerous seminars, where they attempt to put you into a different state, and ask that you look at an imaginary photo album and tear out the ones of your mother for example and the times she hurt you then you put them in your chair and hit them with your fist...attempting to drive the "spirits" away. They do this repeatly with your father, sister, brother, etcc..this process lasts about 3 hours. In each of the Discovery and Focus seminar they last 12 hrs, ending at midnight, breaks are sometimes without 1 word..we were not allowed to.  They drill in your heads that your children need to be with them and I want you to be concerned about your own program.  They forced my son to say things that never happened..if he didnt he was not "working the program".  I believe all of the schools under the WWASPs' wings are all under the same program..some are more harsher than others, some as such Tranquility bay even physically abuse the kids..they have post traumatic syndrome..afraid of being yanked out of their beds at 3 am to have their wrists wringed over and over..so if anyone asks me..do I think that this kind of program saves lives..I simply must say no..I think it kills the very spirit in children that gives them the "keys to success"...that was too funny.

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Anonymous on February 07, 2006, 05:46:00 PM

Somebody should collect data on how many kids end up in programs because a step parent wants to get rid of them?  I remember a case a few years ago where that happened to 2 brothers.  They were sent to Tranquility Bay ... one grabbed kicking and screaming from his school after a couple of thugs (paid escorts) showed up.
Think there last name was Burke.  Their story was in Desperate Measures.

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Labyrinth on February 07, 2006, 06:41:00 PM

That is a very interesting concept...step-parents that put the children in these horrid schools.  I tried to blame my x-husbands wife, but I too am remarried and I would NEVER let my husband now put my son anywhere I didn't want him to go.  But..on the other hand my X husband is a spineless weak pathetic SOB and I shouldnt have expected any better from him.

I still have to wonder what the ratio is  :???:

site is cool..I finally put a name to myself!<
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Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Troll Control on February 07, 2006, 06:54:00 PM

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They forced my son to say things that never happened..if he didnt he was not "working the program". I believe all of the schools under the WWASPs' wings are all under the same program

It's not just WWASPS.  Any facility that employs LGAT ("workshop," "propheet," "marathon," etc.) is bad news.

First of all, LGAT is dangerous "regression therapy" that should never be used on children, and is a dubious, discredited modality for adults.  Second, people cannot be forced into treatment.  I don't care if it's for mental health or smoking cessation.  TREATMENT IS BY DEFINITION VOLUNTARY.

Forced "treatment" is brainwashing or re-education.  Wise up, people.  Use some goddamn common sense.  Stop funding these abusive conformity factories.

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Anonymous on February 07, 2006, 06:57:00 PM

Mom: I want you to go to that facility with your legal papers in hand, and take law officials with you (and your attorney if he will go with you) and take that boy out of Darrington Academy immediately!

You can deal with custody and the ex-husband later.
Can you tell us "why" this father SAYS he wanted your son enrolled in a WWASP facility to begin with?  Why didn't he just let the boy come back to live with you?

I'd spend no more time trying to work things out. I'd go and get my son out of there FIRST, and work out any details later.

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Nihilanthic on February 07, 2006, 07:02:00 PM

Get the boy to a psychologist A S A P after you pull him out. If he has ANY MARKS, record them - take him to a hospital or the cops and make them take pictures and collect all evdience of this. Record, or write down what he tells you, and how he says it - emotions, inflection, facial expressions, his demeanor.

Write down how he acts - if its different than he was before he left you, record that.

We need all the evidence we can get... few people take it. You could be helping save more children than your own.

The problem with the "teen help" industry is that it's a bad "solution" in search of a problem.

Julie C.

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Labyrinth on February 07, 2006, 07:14:00 PM

Well, the plot thickens:

Darrington Academy is located in Blue Ridge, GA as most of yall know, but don't you think I have wanted to just go get him? He is locked down and his father signed him in, therefore his father would have to be present to sign him out.  Sounds like BS? It is, yes I have my visitation papers, but if I took them to the police in GA, and asked them to escort me to the school, they would lol at me, they will not touch Darrington, actually the wonderful court and child laws were going to allow my X to send him to Tranquility Bay without my permission because his new wife of 9 years is acting on my behalf and im nothing but a POS if you ask them, I had no voice until I filed a motion to make him keep him in the country.
The school refuses to speak with me and they tell my son I don't want him home. All he asks them is when can I see my mom.
Legally, I have a court date: its not soon enough, but if I go down there and get that close to him and no one lets me see him....something really bad is going to happen. I talk to my lawyer almost daily he says its a slow process but he feels my son and I will win this.  All I wished, is that I could have 5 mins with my son just to tell him the truth so he will quit believing all that program crap.
Spring Break is coming up..its my visitation, if nothing is done by then, I feel I may have to take matters into my own hands, which usually turns very destructive...I am not very patient when it comes to my child being harmed, and that is exactly what is happening.  40,000 legal child abuse...
I do appreciate your post, it backs up exactly what I believe and what I think about daily.

One has to multiply thoughts to the point where there aren't enough
policemen to control them



--Stanislaw Lec

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Labyrinth on February 07, 2006, 07:25:00 PM

Thank you for the advice and I will do every one of those things...my son is very stubborn, I really hope he regects the program as I did.  

Maybe thats why they tell you to go into the program for yourself, dont think of your child..I didnt do that...I went in thinking..ok I have to attend 2 of these things so I can see my son..lets get it over with..the notebook and material I have, now that I look back its hard to believe that I actually fell for any of it..When I went to focus I knew, after talking to other parents, they were freaks, talking a diff language than I even knew...

After a year in the program, being subjected to this everyday, I cannot imagine what irreversable damage they have done.  But you can bet ill find out and I will tell everyone.

Thanks again

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Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: BuzzKill on February 07, 2006, 08:39:00 PM

10/20/02

By James Varney Latin America correspondent


OROTINA, COSTA RICA -- For tourists, this piedmont town near the Pacific is just a gas or soda stopover en route to some glorious tropical beach. But then, the teenagers at the Academy at Dundee Ranch aren't tourists.

Just what they are is subject to interpretation. Some consider them students, albeit of an unruly, sometimes self-destructive sort, sent here by desperate parents to turn their lives around. Others, Carey Bock of Mandeville among them, subscribe to the view that Academy Dundee is more like a prison and that the teens are inmates.

That conviction last week launched Bock, a 45-year-old assistant vice president at Resource Bank in Mandeville, on a three-day, $15,000 odyssey. She flew to Costa Rica, equipped herself with an entourage of burly men and drove out to the academy's remote cluster of buildings on an unpaved road northwest of Orotina. Without prior announcement, she barged onto the campus and left with her 16-year-old twin sons. Hours later, after the U.S. Embassy in San José refused to issue the boys new passports to replace the ones held by the academy, she talked her way onto a flight to Houston and on Wednesday night shepherded the boys back home by way of Louis Armstrong International Airport.

Bock and the twins, Geoffrey and Garred, now face court action threatened by her ex-husband, Mike Bock, the boys' father, who shipped them off to Academy Dundee in March. He remains convinced, they say, that Dundee's tough-as-nails approach is what the boys need.

Carey Bock says she will do whatever it takes to keep them from having to go back.

"I'm not pretending my sons are angels, but I think they're better off in the United States," she said. "It doesn't make any sense to me to put your kids at risk because you think that will save their lives."


Searching for solutions

A year ago, the twins were enrolled at Mandeville High School when their mother, exasperated by their drinking and their cavalier attitude toward curfews and other parental safeguards, sent them to live with their father, stationed in Rio de Janeiro as the country manager for Weatherford Completion Systems, an oil supply company. The couple's joint custody of Geoffrey and Garred remained legally intact.

What transpired in Brazil remains unclear. The twins wouldn't discuss the topic, and Mike Bock did not return phone calls or e-mail messages. But when the twins returned to Mandeville for a visit last Christmas, their mother concluded that the situation had not improved, and, in an attempt to dodge their flight back to Rio, the boys ran away briefly.

Soon thereafter, Bock said, her ex-husband told her he had found a "school in the States" for the twins, but he remained evasive about the institution and it was only through the estranged couple's daughter that Mrs. Bock learned Mike and the boys had flown to Costa Rica.

At the San Jose airport on March 28, according to the twins, their father handed them over to an Academy Dundee representative who drove the youths over the coffee-terraced mountains to the school in the torrid coastal plain.


'Youth specialty schools'

The site outside Orotina is one of three foreign and eight U.S.-based sites that make up the World Wide Association of Specialty Programs (WWASP), which is headquartered in Utah. Dubbing themselves "the world's largest and finest youth specialty schools," the WWASP academies are part of a so-called boot-camp or tough-love movement, places for the conversion or rehabilitation of teenagers, most of whom are caught in a cycle of drug and alcohol abuse. The teenagers are enrolled there by their parents, not referred by courts.

As the growing number of such institutions attests, most parents are apparently pleased with the results. The U.S. Embassy in Costa Rica said it has been asked only twice to check up on resident students since the school opened a year ago, and one of those requests came from Carey Bock. The parents of another New Orleans-area teenager attending Dundee had nothing negative to say about the school. In total, three students from southeast Louisiana -- two from the New Orleans area and one from Baton Rouge -- remain at Academy Dundee.

But the movement as a whole, and WWASP academies in particular, are not without critics. Last year, a 14-year-old at a tough-love camp near Phoenix died after being forced to eat mud and stand in 116-degree heat, according to authorities who in February charged the camp's director with second-degree murder.

That site was not associated with the WWASP, but a female student at the WWASP's Tranquility Bay site in Jamaica committed suicide last year. In 1998, authorities in the Czech Republic closed Morava Academy, a WWASP school, after allegations of abuse and illegal imprisonment of 57 teenagers. The couple running the Czech school, Glenda and Steven Roach, had moved to Europe after being accused of similar crimes at a school in Mexico. Their whereabouts are unknown, and WWASP president Ken Kay said the Roaches no longer work for the organization.


Physical ordeals

Garred and Geoffrey Bock said they were not subjected to beatings at Academy Dundee, though they claimed other students were. But some of the punishments they described were physical ordeals by any account. For talking when they weren't supposed to, as one example, the twins said they were ordered into an isolated room and forced to kneel silently for 12 hours a day, three days in a row.

WWASP makes no secret of the harshness of its program. While literature provided to parents says the school "is not a treatment facility, counseling-based program, or a correctional institution," it acknowledges that freedoms are sharply curtailed. In Costa Rica, the pamphlets tell parents, "the food isn't as good as the ?home-cooked' meals you have provided them, the accommodations are simple and basic, not nearly as nice as your home."

"In a nutshell, our purpose is creating family unity through growth, and there is a degree of controversy that goes with that," Kay said, without commenting specifically on the Bock boys. WWASP does not own Academy Dundee and is not a hands-on partner in what goes on there, he said. "We don't get involved in the day-to-day decisions or personnel decisions," he said. Academy Dundee's director, Joe Atkin, referred inquiries to Kay's office.


Spartan, but expensive

Upon arrival, newcomers sleep in what is known as "the bat cave " -- in reality a hallway full of cots, unprotected by mosquito netting, the Bock twins said, despite the serious outbreak of dengue fever that has beset Costa Rica's Pacific coast this year.

Dundee students pursue an independent study program in a variety of courses. The school literature notes, however, that, "the teachers/tutors working with the students do not need or may not necessarily have U.S. credentials or equivalent."

Despite the Spartan conditions and the uncertain attainments of the staff, the cost is not cheap. In fact, a year at a WWASP program costs about the same as a year at a private university in the United States. For the twins, that came to roughly $2,000 each per month, and that does not include $95 a month for incidental fees, a $2,000 one-time processing fee, plus $295 for uniform service and other costs.

Teenagers begin at Level 1, and may have no telephone contact with their parents until they reach Level 3, a process that can take anywhere from "60 to 120 days or more," according to Academy Dundee materials provided to parents. After that, telephone calls are permitted once a month, but only "at times prearranged between parents and their family representative at the school," the materials state.

The twins said no music is allowed until a teen reaches Level 4, at which time parental visits also are permitted. But status can be fleeting at Academy Dundee. For example, the twins said that after six months they were on the verge of Level 4 status, but that another student at the facility remained mired at Level 1 after five years in WWASP programs.


Some want out

Not surprisingly, given the bad habits that may have landed them at Dundee and the harsh discipline upon arrival, some students try to bolt. Since March, six have fled Academy Dundee in three separate incidents, according to the Bock boys. The runaways are trying to make it to the U.S. Embassy in San José, a distance of 35 miles as the crow flies, but by foot an arduous trek over steep mountains and through rain forests teeming with snakes, crocodiles and other menaces. The twins said most runaways get lost in the jungle where the mud is so thick it sucks off their shoes. Barefoot, they press on but are usually found within 24 hours and carried back to the school, their feet lacerated and swollen from the ordeal.

Indeed, runaways were the lead topic in the Academy's newsletter, Dundeeism, in September.

"Running away doesn't pay," Atkin wrote. "You all know that great song that says, ?You can sign out any time you want, but you can never leave.' "

In another newsletter item, a woman named Breanne Berrett strikes a more sinister tone. "If you were found, well, have fun at Tranquility Bay or Boot Camp," she warns would-be runaways. "The wonderful facilitators will be waiting there to greet you."


Bodyguards help

No one was waiting for Carey Bock when she drove onto the campus Tuesday. She had set off from San José that morning with Steve Bozak, who described himself as an education consultant, from Albany, N.Y., two hulking men named John and Ty, recruited by Bozak from California, her fiancé, Ken Levine.

In the troubled-teen business, the bodyguards are known as an escort service, and they cut both ways. At times, after parents have signed off on the procedure, they burst into homes in the early morning hours and yank teenagers out of their beds, whisking them off to the boot camps in which their parents have enrolled them. In this case, though, they were on hand to assist Bock in taking her sons away.

The school was ungated, and upon arrival Bock encountered about 40 people milling about a circular driveway. On one side, a handful of boys were washing a car and, in front of the main office, about 10 girls were pushing brooms in the hot sun.

Bock, her voice tremulous with fear and anger, asked to speak with Atkin, who appeared clearly startled by the intruders. When Bock asked to see her boys, Atkin said it was his understanding that a St. Tammany judge had to issue an order allowing her to visit her sons.

"No," Bock said, trembling. "I want to see my boys."

Atkin assured her they would be brought to the office, and the bodyguards tried in vain to calm Bock.

Outside, the girls pushing the brooms asked repeatedly for water. "Si, un poco water," a counselor replied in an odd mix of Spanish and English, but no water was distributed. One of the sweepers crouched with a hacking cough, and another, her face and arms flushed, came unglued. Shaking and sobbing, she moved toward the shade.

"She's from Canada and kind of freaking out because she just got a call that one of her neighbors back home is dying of skin cancer," Atkin explained.

He and another Dundee staffer said they wanted to call the St. Tammany courts, and one of the bodyguards said that was fine.

"You make whatever calls you have to make," he said calmly, "and in the meantime let's just bring the boys out here so she can see them."


'Lucky bastard!'

Perhaps 10 minutes later, the twins -- sporting Marine buzz cuts, khaki pants, long-sleeved white shirts and ties, and flip-flops -- came walking up. Their "family representative," Peter, had an arm around each shoulder. They looked completely mystified until they saw their mother, and then they rushed forward. The trio embraced as the twins started crying.

After the brief reunion, one of the bodyguards urged Bock to walk with the boys toward the car.

As they walked swiftly away, holding hands, one of the boys washing the car on the other side of the driveway yelled out, "We love you, Garred!" adding, as the mother and her sons approached the car, "you lucky bastard!"

Without a word, Bock, Levine and the twins hopped into the car and drove off the campus, the bodyguards following on foot. The twins were scared and mystified.

"Have you got passports? Are you going to get in trouble, Mom? This is weird, this is really weird," they muttered.

On the two-hour drive back to San José, the twins offered a mixed analysis of the program.

"I know people are going to want me to say it's 100 percent evil, but I'm not going to do that," Garred said. "I learned a lot of good things, too."

The twins described an "inside program" and an "outside program." The inside component involves two- to -three-day seminars, which WWASP calls teen discovery, teen focus or teen accountability. They are run every few weeks, and the twins spoke highly of them. In between, however, the twins said the school was more like a boot camp, with merits and demerits handed out willy-nilly by both students and counselors. There are about 150 students, they said, "and only one bathroom works."


Mounting concerns

"This whole thing has just been a blur," Carey Bock said when they arrived back at their hotel.

In truth, Bock's blur was almost seven months old. She said her husband had refused to tell her where he had enrolled the boys, and when she learned the name of the school and the country from their daughter, she still had no idea how to contact her sons.

Bock, increasingly distraught, became positively horrified after watching a Montel Williams show concerning the boy who died at the Arizona boot camp.

She began cruising the Internet and soon found a web of parents who oppose WWASP. She called the academy but was told she could not speak to the twins. Her concern mounting, she sent an e-mail message to Atkin, asking him about his credentials and the credentials of the school and other faculty members.

"I worded it very carefully as a concerned parent and not in some confrontational way, asking the same kind of questions I think any parent would ask about a boarding school where their children were," she said. "But he just e-mailed me back saying he didn't have time to answer those questions."


Telling it to the judge

The Academy at Dundee Ranch Parent Checklist says that, in cases of divorce, custody must be verified prior to arrival. If both biological parents are signing, no custody verification is necessary. Carey Bock never signed, and, given the joint custody status of her divorce agreement with Mike Bock, she instituted a case against him.

In August, Mike Bock flew to Covington and a hearing was held before Judge Peter Garcia. Carey Bock said she was called into a lengthy conference in the judge's chambers, and that Garcia said to her, "I've got your sons on the phone right here. Do you want to talk to them?" It was the first time they'd spoken together since last year.

"I get on the phone and they're crying, saying my letters to them were getting them in trouble and talking about having to stare at the wall for 12 hours, and kneeling for three days in a row because they wore their shoes," she said.

Bock then asked the U.S. Embassy to perform a welfare check. Consular officer James Russo visited the school in August and spoke with the boys, and Bock said he later told her, cryptically, "it's not as bad as some of them."


'We're going to the airport'

The embassy declined to grant The Times-Picayune an interview with Russo, but he saw the twins again Wednesday. That morning, Carey Bock, Levine and the boys went to the embassy to try to obtain new passports for the twins, because their current ones are apparently in the possession of Academy Dundee.

Russo was ready for them, they said. He had been faxed the joint custody papers the day before, either by Mike Bock in Brazil or his attorney in St. Tammany, and said he could not issue new passports without the signature of both parents. According to Carey Bock, the twins and Levine, Russo asked the twins if they had been physically abused, and they said no. He then asked them if they wanted to go home, and they said yes.

Empty-handed, the foursome returned to their hotel. Bock was crying as the family huddled in their room to plot their next step. Bock's return flight reservations were for Thursday. Minutes later, they strode into the lobby with bags packed.

"We're going to the airport," Bock said.

At the airport, Bock, who had the twins' birth certificates, Social Security cards, and a passport one of the twins had lost in Mandeville last year, spoke with the airline, got the boarding passes and left for the United States.

The next phase may unfold in the courts. After arriving home, Bock said her attorney told her Mike Bock may file kidnapping charges against her. But she says she is prepared to fight.

"I have to wonder about the majority of individuals who support WWASP," she said. "I say that only because it is hard for me to imagine a parent would sign over their rights as parents, and basically that is what they have done."

. . . . . . .

James Varney can be reached at jvarney@timespicayune.com or by international call to (506) 282-9246.

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Anonymous on February 08, 2006, 09:54:00 AM

Labyrinth---I have a suggestion.  Why don't you ask your lawyer if he can get an emergency court order for someone to physically deliver to your child, personally, the message that you love him, and want him, that you want him now, that you will always love and want him, and that he will always be welcome in your home.

If your lawyer can get an emergency hearing, on the ground that serious harm is being done to your relationship with your child by him being told, falsely, that you don't love or want him, the judge may be willing to simply order someone acting on your behalf to physically deliver that simple message.  Even let the judge edit it as necessary to make it not disrupt custody proceedings, whatever.  Even if you are non-custodial, it is in the undisputable best interests of the child to know his mother loves him and wants him.

I'm not a lawyer, the legal details of how to do it may vary, but family court judges can order all kinds of things if they believe it's in the best interests of the child.  They may not be able to order Darrington to do anything because of jurisdictional issues, but they *can* order your husband to have the child physically produced for someone designated by the judge to deliver the message--even if they just have to bring him to the front gate at Darrington, and hold your husband in contempt if Darrington doesn't allow the direct, personal delivery of the message from whoever the judge agrees to allow to deliver it.

It's eminently reasonable, and it's the kind of request that is *so* reasonable that a judge that might not otherwise enforce visitation with citing your husband for contempt and throwing him in jail or fining him might sit up and take notice and actually use the full power of the court to *make* that message get through----by someone who does not work for Darrington or your husband *personally* delivering it and seeing that your child hears or reads it in the messenger's presence.

If it was me, I'd try to get my lawyer to go to the wall for me on that one.  He can tell the judge that he understands the rest of the proceedings will take time, but because the proceedings will take time and your son needs to know *now* that you love him and want him no matter what anyone may say to the contrary.

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Labyrinth on February 08, 2006, 10:11:00 AM

Thank you very much for your suggestion, I too have asked if I could have a mere phone call..courts are backed up and hopefully we will be getting a court date soon. The more he denies me the better my case actually is.  I have no proof that my son is in danger..to the courts, people put their children in boarding schools everyday, this is no different to them.  I do have action plans on my own but I am afraid to disclose here just in case people are watching that are not trying to help.  Element of surprise seems to be a very effective tool.

Thank you again for your post and I will keep yall as updated as I can.

Forgive, O Lord, my little joke on Thee and I'll  forgive Thy great big one on me.
--Robert Frost, American poet

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: BuzzKill on February 08, 2006, 11:34:00 AM

You and your lawyer need to be aware that the boy is not free to speak his mind while he is on Darrington's grounds. He is at risk for seriously unpleasant consequences if he says anything negative about the program while he is still being held there.

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Labyrinth on February 08, 2006, 12:12:00 PM

No negativity just be compliant and know the truth.  That is what saved me from being a "program parent".  

The present system is among the most impractical imaginable, if the facilitation of learning is your aim.
--Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Deborah on February 08, 2006, 01:04:00 PM

***I talk to my lawyer almost daily he says its a slow process but he feels my son and I will win this. All I wished, is that I could have 5 mins with my son just to tell him the truth so he will quit believing all that program crap.

Look, your attorney may be shootin straight with you. One warning. It is not in their best interest to resolve family issue quickly. Custody issues now can be drug out for a very long time and cost $30-100K. Psych Evals all around. Guardian ad litem for the kid.  Issue diverted to a mediator who often thinks s/he is a judge and brings their own issues and prejudices to the table. ?Slow process? is a red flag for me, having been through the process with two different attorneys, neither did anything except take my money and pretend to be advocating for me. I hope you have a good one, for your son?s sake.
As a result of the 'slow process' my son remained in an unlicensed wilderness camp with ex-military personel. He ultimately remain in the facility (TBS) because the head counselor and my ex perjured themselves in order to convince the judge that my son was 'on a slippery slope' and needed care, and that my ex would loose $110.000 in pre-paid tuition if we brought him home.
Don't underestimate what these people will do to keep your kid and your ex's money.
At least they can't take him out of the country.

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Labyrinth on February 08, 2006, 01:53:00 PM

Well, very good points made, but I do pressure him by emails and calls daily, and I am working on my own also.  My I paid my lawyer a hefty retainer, he can take it slow, but I better see progress before I send him more.  

Lawyers are kinda like a box of chocolates, never know whats good or bad just have to take a guess.  
I do believe that these so called schools are in it strictly for the money, hell they save on staff by hiring people that have no real knowledge of what they are dealing with.  They are the ones telling us and our children rather they are a level 1. 2. etc..acting on behalf of the "mother".  
Its all a crock of crap in my opinion, how parents can lose control so badly and believe someone else can fix their mistakes.  
Or maybe it i smy situation that an x will go as far as paying so much money just so they dont lose their dignity...it is all a mystery to me and I know every situation is so different.

Thank you for your post and reply, this site has opened my eyes up even more than they already were.

When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans ...... And so a lot of people say there's too much personal freedom. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the public housing projects, about how we're going to have weapon sweeps and more things like that to try to make people safer in their communities.
-- Bill Clinton, 3-22-94

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Nihilanthic on February 08, 2006, 01:56:00 PM

There any good reason you havent just spent that good money and shown up at the program?

Hes still your kid, and any disruption (even if for some messed up reason you cant just take him and run...) is going to be a HUGE morale boost for the boy, even if he has to fake it so the program wont punish him.

Also, do NOT let the program try to disrupt contact with your own child... if they do, document it and give it to your lawyer and bring them up on charges for it, and include that in any order you might get to get visitation, custody, or release from the program.

And, yeah, part of how WWASPS works is telling the kids their parents dont like/love them anymore to break them down, sadly enough. Can't say its not an effective way to totally destroy a child, though  :sad:

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another; shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement
Thomas Jefferson  

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Labyrinth on February 08, 2006, 02:14:00 PM

To answer your question honestly, No, there is not a good reason, I could probably think of some legal ones but I am just the type of person that would lose it when I got that close and they shut me out...knowing im inches away.  I am positive I would end up in jail.  Is that the worst that could happen?  Not sure..but it is an idea that gets more tempting everyday.  I was just trying to do things the right way..for once.

I hate these schools, I hate so much since he has been gone, if not for my other children, I wouldnt care what happened to me if I went there.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
-- Bertrand Russell

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: CCM girl 1989 on February 08, 2006, 02:54:00 PM

Quote

On 2006-02-08 11:14:00, Labyrinth wrote:

"To answer your question honestly, No, there is not a good reason, I could probably think of some legal ones but I am just the type of person that would lose it when I got that close and they shut me out...knowing im inches away.  I am positive I would end up in jail.  Is that the worst that could happen?  Not sure..but it is an idea that gets more tempting everyday.  I was just trying to do things the right way..for once.



I hate these schools, I hate so much since he has been gone, if not for my other children, I wouldnt care what happened to me if I went there.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
-- Bertrand Russell

"

I hear ya! I'm glad you are taking your other kids into consideration. Do things the right way. But tend to be on the aggresive side. Squeeky wheel gets the grease!!!!!

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Nihilanthic on February 08, 2006, 08:37:00 PM

Well, needless to say, the minute youre able to get your kid and they cant stop you (and Im not so sure that isn't now, granted you had a armed, uniformed LEO with you to make them hand over the kid) you should GET YOUR SON!

Also, thanks for not just running away or giving up!! This means a lot to him... and will mean a whole lot morewhen you get him out. :grin:

A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.
--Samuel Clemens "Mark Twain", American author and humorist

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Labyrinth on February 09, 2006, 02:09:00 AM

I think that ...that is the whole problem these days..parents that put their children in these schools actually WANT to run away from them, just say umm we screwed up horribly ..now here is some $, call me when he is "fixed".  I wished I could put these parents in the same condition and surroundings that they have put their kids in...wonder how they would cope..or turn out...do you think they would be "fixed" or just screwed up the rest of their life.. :evil:

Every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm, that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers, may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid."
--Alexander Hamilton    

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Labyrinth on February 09, 2006, 02:11:00 AM

Ohh I got so mad..I forgot to tell you..thanks for the compliment :grin: Was nice to hear it!

It sucks when decent, hardworking people get screwed over like that. Because that means pricks like us don?t stand a chance.
 


Jim S. watching the devastation of the recent tsunami on the television at JR?s

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Anonymous on February 09, 2006, 11:48:00 AM

I have been involved with 3 parents who had joint custody of their child and wanted to remove them from a WWASPS facility.

All went through the legal system and got nowhere.

In the WWASPS contract it is required to have both signatures to admit a child unless you have sole custody.  

These 3 parents went to the school and removed their child.  They followed these steps...

  -Demand to see your child.  If there is a
   clause in your custody papers about visitation
   it is a good idea to show up at that time
   (example - Friday at 4:00, if you have weekend
   visitation)
  -Ask to see the contract with your signature on
   it.  Be sure you have your papers for joint  
   custody with you.  In some cases, your  
   signature may have been forged.
  -Don't stand down.
 
In all cases, WWASPS handed over the child with a garbage bag full of their only earthly possessions.  WWASPS does not like to get involved with these custody battles because their contract states that BOTH PARENTS MUST SIGN IF THERE IS JOINT CUSTODY!

Good Luck and stand strong.  This is your child, you have a form of custody and in all these cases WWASPS crumbled with no leg to stand on.

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Anonymous on February 09, 2006, 12:19:00 PM

SO: the WWASP facilities did not call the police to arrest the parents who showed up with the PROPER paperwork, at the PROPER visitation time?
The officials at the WWASP facilities actually just handed the child over to the parent?

Since this mom says she never signed enrollment papers, and since she wants her son removed--then she CAN JUST GO THERE AND PICK HIM UP?

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Labyrinth on February 09, 2006, 02:36:00 PM

I am researching all that you told me, and I appreciate so much the information.  

I feel that my name was not forged, the step mom and the father both have the same name..they would have had no reason to doubt.

With $ in hand, why would they ask any questions anyway, that is why they are there in the first place..just another money making scheme...with our children being the product...

Seems a sad sad world that we live in, when people have to stoop that low to make a $1.00.

I am aware there are far more worse situations that mine, but the fact that any exist discust me.

Thank you very much for your post, it has been very helpful.

Truth does not have to be accepted on faith. Scientists do not hold hands every Sunday, singing, "Yes gravity is real! I will have faith! I will be strong! Amen.
--Dan Barker, former evangelist and author

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Anonymous on February 10, 2006, 12:46:00 PM

On one occasion the facility did call the police (who actually think this facility is a school, and think it is great!).  They sided with the parent because of legal documents.  The facility would have been holding the child without permission from a parent that had custody.  Kidnapping!

On the other 2 occasions the facility did call the other parent and tried to stop everything.  That is why you take your stand, demand that you see the contract with both signatures.  When this was pushed, yes, they just handed over the child.

Just make sure you have legal documentation showing custody or visitation rights. If necessary, ask them to call the police.  Tell them that this facility is holding your child against your wishes and demand that they document everything.

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Deborah on February 10, 2006, 01:43:00 PM

Quote

On 2006-02-09 11:36:00, Labyrinth wrote:


I feel that my name was not forged, the step mom and the father both have the same name..they would have had no reason to doubt.



With $ in hand, why would they ask any questions anyway, that is why they are there in the first place..just another money making scheme...with our children being the product...

You aren't the first to find themselves in this situation. You can read a similar case in which the bio mother had her ex husband sign as father.
This is a lengthy thread beginning here:

http://fornits.com/wwf/viewtopic.php?to ... t=0#119512 (http://fornits.com/wwf/viewtopic.php?topic=10571&forum=37&start=0#119512)

She originally posts anon but later selects Notafriendofredcliff as her user name.
It may give you some insight into what lengths these programs will go to keep money coming in.

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Labyrinth on February 11, 2006, 01:47:00 AM

That was very helpful, I knew I was not alone, but I swear the more I read and research the more I am amazed on how this keeps happening.

I do want to take this time to tell everyone on this message board how much I appreciate all of their research and support.  Not 1 comment on here goes without me checking it out and weighing my options.  Without me finding this board, I would have been full of doubts and believed what everyone (x husband, school, program people, x husbands wife) told me.

Thank all of you again! :smile:

Given the choice between dancing pigs and security, people will choose dancing pigs every time.
-- Ed Felton (quoted in www-security about Active-X)

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Nihilanthic on February 11, 2006, 02:38:00 AM

If you really want to thank us, go bring your boy here and let him say hello  :wave:

He's the reason we're here, afterall.  :grin:

Infidel: In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does.
--Ambrose Bierce

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Anonymous on February 13, 2006, 10:39:00 AM

Let us know when you bring your son home!

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Labyrinth on February 13, 2006, 10:58:00 AM

I will do more than that when he gets here....he will give everyone an insight on these schools firsthand.  I think that when we hear from the kids that were actually in the schools, it gives us a much better understanding on how to fight them.  

Q. I simply ask, why is PUNISHMENT the solution with regards to the narrow group of behaviors which encompass illegal drug use....?

A.Pharmaceutical Business, both legal and illegal, run by the same people either way, money coming to the middle from both ends.  Bush.
Bill Gallagher

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Anonymous on February 13, 2006, 01:13:00 PM

Most of the  posters here are "kids" who were in a program at one time, and know how these programs "work."  That's why everyone is concerned about your son.

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Nihilanthic on February 17, 2006, 02:18:00 AM

Quote

On 2006-02-13 07:58:00, Labyrinth wrote:

"I will do more than that when he gets here....he will give everyone an insight on these schools firsthand.  I think that when we hear from the kids that were actually in the schools, it gives us a much better understanding on how to fight them.  

Q. I simply ask, why is PUNISHMENT the solution with regards to the narrow group of behaviors which encompass illegal drug use....?

A.Pharmaceutical Business, both legal and illegal, run by the same people either way, money coming to the middle from both ends.  Bush.
Bill Gallagher

"

::bump::

Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar.
                                                                               
--Julius Caesar

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Anonymous on February 25, 2006, 01:16:00 AM

have you gotten your son back yet?. Please just show up.
I am sure with a mother as loving as you he will be OK. He will not blame you for what happened.

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Labyrinth on March 05, 2006, 07:18:00 PM

hey guys, this is her son. I am back!! The academy was not good. I got into about 3 fights and I was not allowed to defend myself. I am now safe and sound. My mother now has full custody and she I very happy now. She has cried alot today and so have I. I will keep in touch with you at all times my new screenname will be snyper.
Love you all so much. Thankyou for my support.   :silly:  :silly:

To be an atheist requires strength of mind and goodness of heart found in not one of a thousand.
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, critic, journalist, philosopher

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Labyrinth on March 05, 2006, 07:28:00 PM

I am back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.  
-- Johnny Carson

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Troll Control on March 06, 2006, 11:38:00 AM

Quote

On 2006-03-05 16:18:00, Labyrinth wrote:

"hey guys, this is her son. I am back!! The academy was not good. I got into about 3 fights and I was not allowed to defend myself. I am now safe and sound. My mother now has full custody and she I very happy now. She has cried alot today and so have I. I will keep in touch with you at all times my new screenname will be snyper.

Love you all so much. Thankyou for my support.   :silly:  :silly:

To be an atheist requires strength of mind and goodness of heart found in not one of a thousand.
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, critic, journalist, philosopher

"

Son, I am overjoyed at your safe return home.  All of us are glad to help and the reward is little surprises like yours!

Please tell us about your ordeal when you get some time, ok?

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: CCM girl 1989 on March 06, 2006, 11:51:00 AM

Welcome home Snyper! We look forward to hearing from you first hand what your experiences were at Darrington Academy.

I think it's important for you to spend sometime with your Mom, and get your relationship back on track. I don't think you had any serious problems that I remember? But, you did opt to live with your Dad, and Step-Mom (that may have been because your Mom was moving, and you wanted to stay in your school with your friends?). Anyway, you both should spend a lot of time openly talking about things.

When you do have some downtime, and want to write about your experiences.........we'd love to hear them. It's always important when doing that to be honest. I'm not saying you won't, but try to be as accurate as possible :smile:. There are a lot of people who visit this site, that care about childrens rights. They go out there on a daily basis trying to make change. When we fight for kids rights we need to have accurate information!

Anyway, WELCOME HOME! You are lucky to have such a great Mom that was able to get you home. I'm sorry about your Dad, and Step-Mom. You, and I have very similar situations. I hope you are able to resolve things with them. Unfortunately, it took my Step-Mom passing away 6-7 years ago to get my family back together. I really hope your situation is different.

Good luck sweetie!!!!

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: deathleprechaun on March 07, 2006, 12:40:00 PM

I'm kinda new here and have been reading about this kid who just returned from this place...i would like 2 hear more about it plz.  what kind of place is this and what happens 2 kids there?

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Anonymous on March 07, 2006, 12:51:00 PM

Quote

On 2006-03-07 09:40:00, deathleprechaun wrote:

"I'm kinda new here and have been reading about this kid who just returned from this place...i would like 2 hear more about it plz.  what kind of place is this and what happens 2 kids there?"

I'm suspicious.  You sure you're new here?  How long have you been reading?  If you'd really like to hear it straight from the horse's mouth why not PM the family in case they don't really want to disclose personal info here?

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: deathleprechaun on March 07, 2006, 01:13:00 PM

well i'm not the one w/o a screen name now am i?  i've been reading on here for a few dayz and it sounds like a kool site so i signed up.

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Antigen on March 07, 2006, 01:19:00 PM

Just a few days? Are we talkin the kind of days like God created the Earth and Heavens in 7 of them?

God is the...refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find no sanctuary in His arms, but...a kind of superiority, soothing to their...egos: He will set them above their betters.
--H. L. Mencken, American publisher

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Anonymous on March 07, 2006, 01:22:00 PM

Quote

On 2006-03-07 10:13:00, deathleprechaun wrote:

"well i'm not the one w/o a screen name now am i?  i've been reading on here for a few dayz and it sounds like a kool site so i signed up."

I just said I was suspicious.  I didn't state it as a fact.  You sure do 'talk' like you've been around here for a while.

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: deathleprechaun on March 07, 2006, 02:05:00 PM

i'm not on here to fite w/ anyone i was just curious about what happened 2 this kid

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Anonymous on March 07, 2006, 02:10:00 PM

Quote

On 2006-03-07 11:05:00, deathleprechaun wrote:

"i'm not on here to fite w/ anyone i was just curious about what happened 2 this kid"

And I was curious as to whether or not you're a troll just fishing for info.

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: deathleprechaun on March 07, 2006, 03:04:00 PM

well while your so curious about me then why don't u have a screen name?

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Anonymous on March 07, 2006, 03:39:00 PM

looks like I wasn't too far off.

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Nihilanthic on March 07, 2006, 07:34:00 PM

Quote

On 2006-03-05 16:18:00, Labyrinth wrote:

"hey guys, this is her son. I am back!! The academy was not good. I got into about 3 fights and I was not allowed to defend myself. I am now safe and sound. My mother now has full custody and she I very happy now. She has cried alot today and so have I. I will keep in touch with you at all times my new screenname will be snyper.

Love you all so much. Thankyou for my support.   :silly:  :silly:

To be an atheist requires strength of mind and goodness of heart found in not one of a thousand.
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, critic, journalist, philosopher

"

Hey dude! Glad to hear youre okay! Tell all  :grin:

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Anonymous on March 08, 2006, 05:06:00 PM

Interesing.....

  fite

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Anonymous on March 08, 2006, 05:27:00 PM

Quote

On 2006-03-07 11:05:00, deathleprechaun wrote:

"i'm not on here to fite w/ anyone i was just curious about what happened 2 this kid"

Really?  What would you like to know?

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Antigen on March 09, 2006, 11:27:00 AM

Quote

On 2006-03-07 12:04:00, deathleprechaun wrote:

"well while your so curious about me then why don't u have a screen name?"

What kind of name is that? Are you a student, staff or visiting parent? I'm guessing staff.

May your days be joyously challenging and your words artfully true.
--Ginger Warbis

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Anonymous on March 09, 2006, 05:51:00 PM

Snyper, I'm so glad you got out of that place and are back home.

Labyrinth, good for you for getting your kid out!

I wish you both all the best. :smile:

Julie

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: snyper on March 15, 2006, 11:01:00 PM

Well I have settled in here and it is very nice. I will now tell you just about everything that i know and can think of about Darrington Academy.
(Parents who are reading this are reccomended not to send your son or daughter to a progream. talk to a therapist or do something but do not send them to a program)When i entered darrington i did not know what was ahead of me. i was enrolled at this school on the 16th of May in 2005. I did not know what was happening to me. I was very angry with my parents that they had sent me there. :wstupid:  :wave:JNM:wave:

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Anonymous on March 16, 2006, 01:15:00 PM

so while you were at darrington did u get an education?  how did the chaperones do their jobs..did they curse at u?

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: snyper on March 18, 2006, 03:29:00 PM

well at the academy i was not treated well. The chaperones were very crappy there and half of them did not even have a high school education.
The education is not very good there. For a example that we do not even have teachers to help us. We do all of our work off of a computer :wstupid: .

Title: you damn right
Post by: Anonymous on July 15, 2007, 08:28:37 PM

i was there for 8 months and it is completly hell.........if you need anybody to back you up i have about 7 friends who went there and we are here for ya they are a crock of shit....... :

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: BuzzKill on July 16, 2007, 12:08:29 PM

snyper & chelsea:

Please PM me or email me.
I'd like to "talk".

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Anonymous on July 23, 2007, 12:08:40 AM

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I attended Darrington Academy from Dec 2004-Nov 2005. Richard Darrington is NOT the headmaster...I mean, according to the papaerwork he is..but no. Dace Goulding is the Director..he runs the school, he owns the building that was formally known as the Fannin Inn. He also owns the lot behind the facility that Rich built his house on....WITH a huge loan from Dace, by the way, that he has yet to pay back. Yes, that's right, Richard Darrington is in debt to Dace Goulding... Why won't Dace collect his money? Because he needs Rich to cover up WWASP ties.
Richard Darrington is completely naive and knows nothing about WWASP or programs. He is in charge of academics because that is all he knows anything about. I know this because I was there, and because anyone I asked there told me this. Dace is the Program Director, Rich is only in charge of academics...Don't ask Dace about school, don't ask Mr. D about the program.. Dace is using Rich to cover up the fact that Darrington Academy IS in fact a WWASP affiliated school and in order to keep it from being shut down, or investigated, Dace allowed Richard Darrington to sign all the paperwork. Simple as that.

May have already been posted, but here it is again.

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Anonymous on July 23, 2007, 06:02:31 PM

isn't the last post just copied from http://www.antiwwasp.com/ (http://www.antiwwasp.com/) ?

Title: Darrington Academy, I need your help
Post by: Anonymous on July 25, 2007, 01:42:49 PM

Don't remember where it came from.  Sorry.