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Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform => CEDU / Brown Schools and derivatives / clones => Topic started by: Son Of Serbia on September 13, 2004, 01:22:00 PM
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Randy Nelson, Brett Newman, Jodi Wolfe, Justin Short, Kevin Wagner, Ryan Alworth, Anuka Mikelson, David Noval, Crystal Gantt, Kim Krodel, Jeremy Purcel, Laura Dupree, John Peterson, Jeff McGuiness, Anthony Stevens, Ilyana Mercado, Sharie Ogress, David Jarmen, Sean Daly, Justin Barney, Juan Soto, Anthony Edwards, Leslie Bernstein, Carly Shields, Ben Shapiro, Marie Villarie, Jeter Krutchfield, Rob Nielson, Trevor Cook, Gina Marsen, Anna-Bell Johnson, Li Ping Kuan, Violet Hanson, Michelle Weinstien, Alia Weiner, Gene Jasper,.....
That's 37 Names that I can remember from the top of my head, Ottawa 5. Thirty-seven names of kids who attended & dissappeared from Cedu-RS during my stay there (Dec 28, 1990-July 6, 1992).
Add myself to the list and that makes 38. Thirty eight Kids that I can name, who disappeared in the year and a half that I spent at Cedu-Rs. And there are many more names that I can't remember
Ottawa 5, MANY MORE!
Many of these names are Kids who were in my peer group, the majority of them split repeatedly until they finally got away and were never heard from again. The others refused to succumb to Cedu's Mind Fucking tactics, and were shipped off to various mental hospitals, wilderness survival camps, and lock-up facilities. Some were pulled.
I just gave you 38 people who no doubt feel severely wronged by Cedu, that's 38 people who I can name! And I saw what I described happen to a lot more kids, but it was 12 years ago, and I can't remember them all. Perhaps Bryan remembers more.
I'm not the only one here with a list of names Ottawa5. Every poster who comes here has their own list of names, we just haven't found all of the people yet. There Are thousands of us Ottawa5, and YES, WE DO REPRESENT THE MAJORITY OF FORMER STUDENTS AT CEDU SCHOOLS.
Still not convinced Ottawa5? Well, you don't have to take my word for it.
HEAR YEA! HEAR YEA!
I HEARBYE CALL ON ALL OF YOU FORMER CEDU STUDENTS WHO VISIT THIS THREAD TO POST YOUR OWN LIST OF NAMES OF KIDS YOU SAW BEING FUCKED OVER AND THEN DISAPPEARED FROM WHICHEVER CEDU PROGRAM YOU WERE IN.
Lets show Ottawa5 once and for all just how many Cedu Victims we are talking about!
.[ This Message was edited by: SON OF SERBIA on 2004-09-14 07:33 ]
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I remember all those people. I just can't man. I think a couple of those dudes might be axe-murderers.
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MERIDETH BRYAN: after almost two years at cedu
she finally convinced her parents to pull her out.
NICOLE JOCK: Ran away several times. Nicky was in my peer group and she was a good friend.
TOM SOUTHER: I seriously respected this guy. Tom was in source and had already finished the I & Me workshop. He turned 18 about one week before the summit, and was supposed to graduate
less than 2 months afterward. 2 weeks before Tom turned 18, he announced that he felt the whole cedu program was worthless, and that he
already had made arrangements to leave on his 18th birthday. The staff at Cedu-RS were completely dumb-founded. Tom was an older student with all of the source priveledges, and was highly thought of by the staff at the school.
In Tom's last few raps, Cedu staff and his peer group tried everything from threats to bribes to restrictions to make him stay, this included witholding Tom's highschool diploma. Tom didn't flinch, he stuck to his claims that Cedu was a worthless program and refused to waste anymore of his life there. On his 18th birthday, Tom took a plane ride home.
That puts my tally to 41 people I can name who did not graduate from cedu and no doubt feel that cedu fucked them over.
I still have more faces in my head that I can't put a name to right now. I'll do my best to remember more.
Who else has a list? Post It!
[ This Message was edited by: SON OF SERBIA on 2004-10-22 13:06 ][ This Message was edited by: SON OF SERBIA on 2004-10-22 13:07 ]
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Add my name to the list, Justin Hedican. I split after the brothers phrophet, Best desicison I ever made. I went home on a home visit and It didnt take long to convince my parents that CEDU was seriously a fucked up place. During the 16 1/2 months I attended the CEDU schools I saw alot of people get shipped of to pine crest alot of others were pulled from the system. (lucky for them). This was from 96-97.
O5.
I just have a question for you. Alot of people in this website think your a fucking idiot, I havent been posting here for long but, I was wondering,,,,if you think CEDU is or was such a helpful place, why dont you leave Fornits and go start you own Pro-CEDU site?
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Good of you to respond justin, forget about Ottawa for a second. I'm looking for real names here, as many as you can remember, of students who did not finish whatever cedu program you were in. It's great that you remember people who were pulled, or shipped off to other institutions, I want their Names, and not just the quantity! Post all of the names that you remember!
.[ This Message was edited by: SON OF SERBIA on 2004-09-13 13:09 ]
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here's my list...
deanne, kim schnider, kim harding, brook kusey, eric <- for got the last name(sorry), this girl named jackie got pulled on her first visit, julie king, john barrymore, anya black, ted guise, dustin newman, mike treckner, megan burnhart, dan powers, brandi coch, frances roberts, chris P., matt misholoff, artit, dylan russell, catlin kral, justin tiefenthaler. and that's all i can remember for right now, but if i remember more, then i'll let ya know!
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about 40 people got pulled within a 2 month span right after i transferred to the high skool, but i don't want to start listing names, as i'd like to respect these people's privacy... (i don't want my post showing up on a google search or something)
but here's one girl that got pulled while i was there who, i'm sure, wouldn't mind the publicity...
paris hilton.
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I will just give a first name account of those who split (successfully) and those who were pulled out in my 6 months stay. John M., John#2, Richard, Bobbi, Michelle, Mike, Ali, Corbin, Kate, Jason... I blanked out a lot of names... and many, many more tried to leave unsuccessfully... I talked to a few later who were too scared because they lived far away and one who had a fairly traumatic experience (and was willing to put herself through it to get out). Oh, and I forgot myself.
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Julie Harding: was in the peer group above me, and later was dropped to my peer group in discovery. Julie split like every other week, and eventually went to a mental hospital after she kicked Steve Laird's dog. She asked me to split with her once.
Duane Troy: Older student from RMA who was expelled, and then sent to join the New Horizons peer group at Cedu. Duane stayed for about 2 months and split. We never heard about him again.
Tillman Pink: Gangbanger from LA. who was sent to Cedu on court orders. Tillman lasted about 2 weeks and then split. Another kid we never heard from again.
Now that's 44 kids I've named that cedu failed.
C'mon people, I want your lists!!! Post only first names if your not comfortable with full names. I want to put a name and face on every kid we know of that Cedu Failed!
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KIM ROBY- She was in the peer group below me, and split after being at cedu for only 3 weeks. we never heard from Kim Again.
That's 45 people I can name who attended cedu, and disappeared from the program.
Unfortunately, I seem to be the only person who continues to name names here.
I want to state my objectives again. I want to compile a list of names for every kid we know of that did not graduate the program, and that cedu hurt + failed. I truly believe that people like us represent the vast majority of former cedu students.
I want to compile this list for 2 reasons:
1. Once we identify all of these names, I want to search for, find these individuals, and invite them to join this forum. There is definately strength in numbers, the more former students that we have here, then the better the chances are of our voices being heard. I seriously believe that if enough us us are involved, then we can definately hurt Cedu's business substantially, and possibly even shut them down. We haven't even begun to drag Cedu's name through the mud!
2. I want to compile a list of names similar to what Ginger did with the straight INC. Forum. A complete list of all of us students who were hurt by and failed by Cedu. I want to visibly post this list on the web, where it will be easily found by parents, educational consultants,investigators, and anyone else who researches cedu on the web.
It's not enough that we come out here and say that we saw soooo many people hurt by cedu. there's no real substance or credibility in that, and people like O5, and Just Trying can always come back and say that they know sooo many people who were helped by cedu. It's pointless, and this approach will not offer any proof either way.
By posting actual names we lend credibility to our claims. We wont be simply quoting nameless numbers that anyone can doubt or refute. We will actually be putting a name and face on everyone who cedu hurt. In the eyes of the public, we will be people then, and not simply numbers. And in doing so, we will be putting the pressure, and burden of proof on the
"PRO-CEDU SHEEP" to prove us wrong, instead of this burden being put on us to prove them wrong (like it is now).
This is the last and final appeal I will make for this thread. I've done my part to make this work. The rest of you can either join me, or stay hidden in the closet and leave this thread to die, as was done before.
It's time for us to stop hiding, WE NEED TO GO ON THE OFFENSIVE AGAINST CEDU!
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On 2004-09-29 06:26:00, SON OF SERBIA wrote:
2. I want to compile a list of names similar to what Ginger did with the straight INC. Forum. A complete list of all of us students who were hurt by and failed by Cedu.
Are you talking about http://fornits.com/anonanon/revoke.htm (http://fornits.com/anonanon/revoke.htm)? Cause I didn't compile that list. I just set up the software so that people could make their own statements.
The weavers of linen and hempen cloth, ... may exercise their trades without paying any fine.
-- Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations (chapter X, part II) notes:
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Yes, Ginger that's what I was talking about.
Please forgive me for mistating that you compiled the list. I didn't mean to mislead anyone.
I would like to do something similar for Cedu, if that's possible, and if the software is still available..
Do you have any suggestions as to how we could make this work?
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Oh sure! Firgure out what you want it to say and I can set it up for you.
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
--Thomas Carlyle
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Okay so you heard the story a wee bit wrong. I, Nicole did run away a couple of times...might I add quite successfully for being the youngest student to date. However I would like to know who said I cut my wrists and ended up in a mental hospital. I would consider sueing for slander. I walked to downtown Running Springs and turned myself in to the cops the second time I ran away. I ended up in Juvenille Hall for 2 days since they didn't know what to do with me. I calmly explained to them I wasn't going back.I had just turned 13. Okay so now that I have set the record straight, yes that evil institution should be shut down. I live in Chicago and I've run into several people that have attended one of the Cedu schools. I've also had the great opportunity to talk a parent out of sending their child there. Who is everyone on this site. I ran into a few people from Cedu later in life. I ran into Charles and Kevin in DC for presidential classroom. I ran into Rodney in New Hampshire I think it was and I ran into Jodi in a school in CT. I would love to hear from people. I was on the Oprah show about 8 years ago and we ran out of time before I could get to Cedu on my agenda. She's planning another survivers of the teenage cash crop era show and maybe some of you would like to be involved. Let me know. Hope to hear from ya'll soon.
Nicole
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Very interesting. Please keep posting.
What year did you split? What year was the Oprah thing?
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Hello I went and left in 1991 or 92 I was only there for long enough to go through the truth brainwashing ceremony plus a month or so. I remember getting in trouble the most because I wouldn't cop out to having sex or doing drugs. Neither of which I had ever did seeing as that I was actually a rather shy, naive kid that happened to already hate the american government and my adoptive rich parents.I was told I was a liar, a slut ,a lesbian by Steve the skinny guy with the molester mustache. God do I hate doing dishes to this day. Strangely enough I just went into my hall closet and there sits my blanket from Cedu. The orange peachy colored kind. I had forgotten it was from there. From 13 yrs ago! I just met another Ceduian the other week. I was reading oddly the parables of Kahlil Gibran and she came up saying how much she hated that fucker. Knowing that there is only one reason really to hate him I asked her if she went to Cedu. I almost laughed when she went pale and looks as if she were about to spew her contents. Probably the same way I looked when I realized my full name pops up with the words suicide, ran away and mental hospital on a broad google search.If you wanna chat about good ole Cedu let me know.
Nicole
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I wouldn't feel right about posting other's first/last names without their permission... seems like a breech in trust...
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Kahil Gibran deserves it. I'll see him in hell. I won't wax poetic at this time.
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Dont Blame Gabran - CEDU using his name is like Adolph Hitler saying he was "Doing the work of god". And, Hitler did say that. Gibran wrote that book in the 1930,s. That narcissistic asshole Wasserman simply used it's great power to seduce and control cult members by minipulating their emotions. It is and oldest cult method of power and control to use great literature, the work of great minds, and any popular cultural movement to control people.
The power of the Prophet remains great - CEDU's power structure and management just might "burn in hell" as you say.
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My god... If you hated it there sooo much, why expend any more energy on it now that you're out?
Here's a little advice on getting over your poor little traumatized, affluent adolecance... Get over it, move on... and really... get a life!
It'll all just seem like a bad dream once you get your ass up from in front of your computer and actually DO something (other than bitch about how OTHER people have screwed up your life for you).
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hmmm..unless it was another John Peterson, i attended and graduated with a John Peterson..and then saw him later after the program..
that is all.
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John Peterson split Cedu-RS in 1991, I was in his peer group, so stop making shit up!
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Im not making shit up..then it was another person with same name..anyways:P whats with all the anon posters??
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eric shaevitz was his name
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hi there, i am alia weiner, i found this randomly searching my name... i am not missing, i am fine. cedu was not entirely healthy but also not the worst thing that could ever happen to someone. i am glad it is closed, but i choose to take what there is to take from it. the wilderness trips were a good thing.
so yeah, i am fine though, seriously, or at least fine enough. one should never allow their hardships to persuade them to beleive that they do not have the power to live and be the person they want to be. fuck cedu, i beleive in me.
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o yeah, and i graduated!!!! i did not dissappear!!!
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Dont Blame Gabran - CEDU using his name is like Adolph Hitler saying he was "Doing the work of god". And, Hitler did say that. Gibran wrote that book in the 1930,s. That narcissistic asshole Wasserman simply used it's great power to seduce and control cult members by minipulating their emotions. It is and oldest cult method of power and control to use great literature, the work of great minds, and any popular cultural movement to control people.
The power of the Prophet remains great - CEDU's power structure and management just might "burn in hell" as you say.
I have to differ on the power of The Prophet. I think the reason that book was so easy for CEDU to use was the fact that every statement in it was a derivative of one prexisting religious or spiritual thought or another. Its a book of philisophical/religious cliches. It was the perfect book for this sort of thing, because it was obscure enough not to cause any controversy, and it would have been easy to stamp a few cliches out of it for each brainwashing extravaganza, and have something that looked plausably like an ideology or doctrine. If you notice, the actual stuff in the book had little to do with the kinds of experiences in the propheet; they only touched on the same generalities.
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I am one of the people below.
It was a tough hall getting out of Cedu. One could say it was my lifes mission at the time. Finally my parents got the hint.
There is no way I would have acted out as much as I did unless I didn't SERIOUSLY think something was way fucked up at that school.
Finally - my mom got the hint. Shitty thing is, my dad used my inheritance from my grandma to pay for Cedu. His buddy was executor of my grandmas will. He was able to illegally get the funds and pay for Cedu. So in essence, I spent 100K to be mentally tortured for 2 years. I no longer speak to my dad.
Let's talk about pissed.
I use to think I messed up and would have dreams of going back and finishing. It was the guilt that Cedu ingrained in me.
I am so glad I found this site.
I used to hang out with Kevin Wagner after I left.
He was struggling with where he was at in life at that time.
I fear he got into a lot of trouble.
If anyone knows how to get a hold of him, I would love to hear how he is.
Tom S got into a real bad car accident that left him pretty dehabilitated.
Sherry O is on myspace and seems to be pretty happy with 2 kids.
Leslie and Crystal Gant are on myspace too.
Ryan Alworth and marie V are on classmates.
Thats all I know...
Randy Nelson, Brett Newman, Jodi Wolfe, Justin Short, Kevin Wagner, Ryan Alworth, Anuka Mikelson, David Noval, Crystal Gantt, Kim Krodel, Jeremy Purcel, Laura Dupree, John Peterson, Jeff McGuiness, Anthony Stevens, Ilyana Mercado, Sharie Ogress, David Jarmen, Sean Daly, Justin Barney, Juan Soto, Anthony Edwards, Leslie Bernstein, Carly Shields, Ben Shapiro, Marie Villarie, Jeter Krutchfield, Rob Nielson, Trevor Cook, Gina Marsen, Anna-Bell Johnson, Li Ping Kuan, Violet Hanson, Michelle Weinstien, Alia Weiner, Gene Jasper,.....
That's 37 Names that I can remember from the top of my head, Ottawa 5. Thirty-seven names of kids who attended & dissappeared from Cedu-RS during my stay there (Dec 28, 1990-July 6, 1992).
Add myself to the list and that makes 38. Thirty eight Kids that I can name, who disappeared in the year and a half that I spent at Cedu-Rs. And there are many more names that I can't remember
Ottawa 5, MANY MORE!
Many of these names are Kids who were in my peer group, the majority of them split repeatedly until they finally got away and were never heard from again. The others refused to succumb to Cedu's Mind Fucking tactics, and were shipped off to various mental hospitals, wilderness survival camps, and lock-up facilities. Some were pulled.
I just gave you 38 people who no doubt feel severely wronged by Cedu, that's 38 people who I can name! And I saw what I described happen to a lot more kids, but it was 12 years ago, and I can't remember them all. Perhaps Bryan remembers more.
I'm not the only one here with a list of names Ottawa5. Every poster who comes here has their own list of names, we just haven't found all of the people yet. There Are thousands of us Ottawa5, and YES, WE DO REPRESENT THE MAJORITY OF FORMER STUDENTS AT CEDU SCHOOLS.
Still not convinced Ottawa5? Well, you don't have to take my word for it.
HEAR YEA! HEAR YEA!
I HEARBYE CALL ON ALL OF YOU FORMER CEDU STUDENTS WHO VISIT THIS THREAD TO POST YOUR OWN LIST OF NAMES OF KIDS YOU SAW BEING FUCKED OVER AND THEN DISAPPEARED FROM WHICHEVER CEDU PROGRAM YOU WERE IN.
Lets show Ottawa5 once and for all just how many Cedu Victims we are talking about!
.[ This Message was edited by: SON OF SERBIA on 2004-09-14 07:33 ]
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I use to think I messed up and would have dreams of going back and finishing. It was the guilt that Cedu ingrained in me.
I still have these dreams nearly two decades later. Common, I hear. In most dreams, I am sent back and experience the same disbeliefe, horror, and powerlessness. I try to "look good" but end of confronting staff about the school's wrongdoings to no avail, of course... I end up desperately trying to split... it's all very frightening. Usually everyone is Stepfordized.
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I use to think I messed up and would have dreams of going back and finishing. It was the guilt that Cedu ingrained in me.
I still have these dreams nearly two decades later. Common, I hear. In most dreams, I am sent back and experience the same disbeliefe, horror, and powerlessness. I try to "look good" but end of confronting staff about the school's wrongdoings to no avail, of course... I end up desperately trying to split... it's all very frightening. Usually everyone is Stepfordized.
eerie how some of us had the same dreams. I would always wake up from those dreams with the same feeling that I would after awakening from a "chase dream".
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Try being a transsexual and having those dreams. Imagine being back there, made to wear dresses, having long hair, and trying desperately in the dream to find a pair of clippers or a razor or something so you could shave your head. Stuck back at CEDU as a girl, forced to be a girl, even though I am a man now.
I don't have those girl dreams as much as before, but when I do, they are always frustrating and disturbing. "Oh god, I'm back where I started. I'm going to have to go through my transition all over again."
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Wow. RMA/Cedu would be a rough place to be in your situation.
How long did you last there?
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Wow. RMA/Cedu would be a rough place to be in your situation.
How long did you last there?
A full tour of duty: 2.5 years. Graduated and everything.
Actually, I think you were there when I was.
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I graduated RMA summer 1990
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Dec '89. PG 26.
You probably got there right when I was in Quest, maybe early Challenge.
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what does "Ottawa5" mean?
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Where are you seeing that? Is that earlier in the thread? (I can't remember.)
That was the fornits username of a program parent. A slightly unstable program parent. I fortunately missed most of that drama. It had played itself out by the time I got here.
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yes - it was in the beginning of the thread.
Do you think anyone is really making a movie/documentary about RMA/Cedu? There is alot of talk about it on fornits.
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I am one of those names on the list Laura D. I finally was pulled/kicked out, after my Summit. I ran away for the 7th time. I bucked against the system the entire time. I refused to give in. I certaintly was not going to stand on stage at graduation and thank my parents for sending me to that nightmare of a place. So I left with Crystal and Kim. I heard that Kim has passed away. ( could be a rumor but I think it is true.) I am still trying to undo everything they did to my head. Its an issue that my parents and I dont speak about. They refuse to. whatever. I still remember that place like it was yesturday. All that "smooshing" with the faculty ( male faculty )was soooo inappropriate. I must say that I went out of control afterwards and it took me years to settle down. I was pissed!!!!! I am now married and finally graduated college even though it took me ten years, a little thank you to CEDU for making me educationally retarded. I am an artist living in NC.
Peace to you all!!!