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On 2004-09-09 06:42:00, Anonymous wrote:

"I have read that link by that obviously unstable mother, who can't cope with the fact she was just as much as fault for her kids problems as her child was."

Did I miss something?  Who, on this thread, are you calling an unstable mother?  Ginger?  Deborah?

a) More discipline than military boot camp. Let me give you an example: If a teen is sick and vomiting, then he is given a bucket to carry around to heave into and sent off on a day's drill. You really have to be sick to see a doctor.

The emphasis here is to break the teen down, give him a sense of extreme discipline and build him back up.

What you call discipline is what the rest of the world calls abuse.  This is the kind of thing that killed Nick Contreraz. What makes you think such cruelty will solve any of your son's problems?  That's assuming he has any, other than having a psychopath as a parent.

All I know is that it is working for my son.

In what sense working?  Because it has broken him down?  Because he is learning to be subservient?  What makes you think he will ever talk to you again once he becomes an adult?

A quick Google on the name suggests it is for 'gifted' kids.  Apparently, being gifted now requires therapy!

There is this newspaper article:

http://http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,505034563,00.html

And there is this statement from a former inmate:

http://http://www.isaccorp.com/wwasp/casa/casastatementjc.pdf

ISAC's Tranquility Bay Report also contains some Casa information in a roundabout way.  It has an appendix on Dundee Ranch and a lot of Casa children were transferred there in its early days.  Amberly Knight reported one child from Casa whose collar bone had been broken as he was being 'restrained' and who had the x-rays to prove it.

You will need Adobe reader (free from http://http://www.adobe.com) to read the ISAC documents.

If you feel like downloading 70M of MPEG you can watch Inside Edition
[ This Message was edited by: Kiwi on 2004-08-19 04:05 ]

http://http://www.metropulse.com/dir_zine/dir_2004/1429/t_notw.html

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"... And in St. Petersburg, Fla., in March, the U.S. ambassador to Italy, Melvin Sembler, who for 17 years ran an aggressive drug treatment program called Straight, filed a lawsuit against disgruntled Straight ex-client Richard Bradbury, who allegedly has harassed Sembler since 1987, including rummaging through his garbage (once finding Sembler?s penile pump and advertising it on eBay)."

Well, it made the news I guess.  Perhaps a few people could tell them that many regard the matter as a little more than a noteworthy absurdity:

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http://http://166.70.44.66/2004/Jul/07082004/utah/181868.asp

Judge tosses St. George-based company's slander suit

"U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball on Tuesday dismissed a slander lawsuit filed against a reporter by the St. George-based World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools (WWASPS) because the allegations involve actions that took place outside Utah. The association claims United Press International reporter Thomas Houlahan defamed its reputation by falsely telling parents that school officials abused their children, citing calls he made to a Maryland woman whose son was in a New York school. The WWASPS is associated with seven behavior modification schools in the United States and two operating outside the country."

"...I only wish Corey had been less successful at concealing his pain and his morbid sense of failure."

I'd have thought the gun pointed at the head would have been a pretty good hint.