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The DHR Georgia, Investigative Unit.  Current or former students, parents, staff -  any  unreported staff/student, student/staff incidents at Ridge Creek School that resulted in injury to either student or staff and can be verified,  please contact the DHR directly.

Co-mingling of facilities at Ridge Creek School with adjudicated children, inadequate staffing/inexperienced,  unlicensed, uncertified care givers can also be reported to the DHR, ORS(ORCC).

According to the DHR rep the agency  will respect privacy.

But the biggest joke of all is this is part of their "Rigorous Standards":
Guest 3 Excerpt

Integrity and Ethical Decision Making

a) Foster integrity, honesty, fairness and respect
b) Exhibit moral courage in confronting unjust situations

Who will the Little General get to teach this? I hope he plans on attending these classes because he sure knows nothing about either one of those topics!

Touche'

From Reality

"From what I have heard from staff, current RCS students/residents will be moved down to the "wilderness" area, and the therapeutic boarding school thing will continue down there, while the upper campus will be used for the new boarding school."

If one looks at the question section of the application for HIghlands one shall view Highlands requesting counseling, psychological, legal trouble information, etc. of prospective students.  If the abocve is the case as "Reality" states all bases are covered  by keeping RCS and it can be used as a feeder much like Ridge Creek Wilderness was used when it was HLA/RCS for interventions(interventions were to cease, however, it has been reported that they did not cease when HLA became RCS).  This would afford an alternative to those deemed not "appropriate" for a Traditional Boarding School.  RCS keeps their CCI status and the entity could attempt to piggy-back the SACS accreditation from RCS, although a Traditional Boarding School's accreditation is different.  Obviously, anything is possible when the messenger delivers their slightly shewed pitch to the agencies.

A possible scenario.  One never knows.  Highlands states that the wilderness adventure will be offered, although the wilderness dorms are not needed for a weekend outdoor adventure, so it could work to their advantage.

Currently the company appears to be hiring for RCS and Highlands.  That could shift come September.  It would not be the first time.

Instead of streamlining, all this shifting of names and school functions, the marketing once again will be confusing to its industry compatriots.  Already one educational consultant stated Highlands is Ridge Creek.  Well, not if one wishes a license and certification that is on the up and up.

The corporation once stated "with a wilderness twist."  Three entities operating on a single compound.  There appears to forever be a "twist" on this compound, but not a sound one.

A sincere hope that the above post by "Reality" is not coming down the pike.  If it is, then the State must require that the Highland families are informed that RCS will be operational on the same compound.

My two cents....  I do not want another child arrested because they were sent to RCS  and not "appropriate" diagnostically for their so-called Therapeutic Program, to which there were/are? apparently few, if any, qualified, licensed, seasoned staff able to care for these children.  There needs to be accountability for these chidlren that have been incarcerated/dumped at RCS, as minors by unsuspecting parents and a fooled, flawed system;  only to end up in jail in Lumpkin County as  Lucrezia Albegiani, Sydney Vaughn, the two children from last years plummeting of a female staff member, and now the four boys from the latest riot.  Are there other children we have not even heard about?  It would stand to reason being that four boys were picked up at 4 am outside of Wal-mart and according to LCSO, nary a soul at RCS reported them missing.  Whom is it that should be incarcerated?

It would also be reasonable to ask DHS to stand with Albegiani and Vaughn in their defense.  Defense not for their actions and not condoning what these girls did, but had they not been attending RCS under RCS  pretense of  licensed, qualified staff(that are hung out to dry in lone numbers), chances are this incident and countless others would never have happened.  

Unfortunately, as with the druglords, the higher ups rarely appear to be held accountable.  It is no different in this case.   Money and power.

ANOTHER THOUGHT - THE ORS, BJ BAKER and CO. will be happy as pigs in a sty if RCS turns Traditional Boarding School.  This lets the ORS off the hook for accountability in allowing this debacle to continue throughout the years.  Not that the ORS was ever accountable.

We all remember when the Investigators with the DHS worked tirelessly to put an end to this all ... but the upper echelon, in the words of the GAO, "dropped the ball."  Perhaps, it was too hot, so they threw it.

Quote from: "Guest3"

If he has "students" boarding there then HPS WILL be subject to oversight by the ORS because children under the age of 18 will reside there. God he is a sneaky bastard!!!

No, they will not have oversight by ORS if they are classified as a traditional boarding school and do not board kids year round or provide therapy.
They may be planning to drop the "therapeutic" label and go underground with their behavior modification techniques.
This will be revealed as time passes. Surely NO parent of a child attending a traditional boarding school will allow contact with their child to be severed. Calls/mail should not be monitored. They will be more able to report what's happening.

RCS would not be monitored either if they become part of the new school and claim not to provide therapy. Again, "therapy" and length of boarding time are the determining factors. For instance, summer wilderness/camping programs that don't provide therapy are not regulated. In the early days of RCWP, that was ORSs assumption based on what HLA had told them. When pressured to investigate, they found out otherwise.

What happens to the CCI children that attend RCS now, if Highlands Prep is not going to operate as a CCI?

Looks like Kevin Miller's  "Multiple recipient of the Who's Who Among America's Teachers Award (1998, 2002, and 2004)" is a bunch of bullshit according to this forum:   http://www.proteacher.net/discussions/s ... php?t=6693

They make sales from the books they sell Ha!  Amazing. So are theses people REAL PHD's this time around?  Has Buccellato finally 'got' it? What does that mean for Clay Erickson?  And the others ...  Are they all gone?

Noticed Sam Tanner's name is still there on RCS(retired last year or rumour?). Didn't  RCS hire a new math teacher?  IT has added two new people to RCS site, but did not update/delete other names.