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Mission Mountain School / Please step In to reality
« on: July 31, 2005, 10:33:00 PM »
I believe anyone who forces little girls (and yes, girls age 12 are little girls) to divulge their very private sexual experiences, asking for every detail, is sexually abusive and has another agenda. Especially when this person is not even a therapist.

Think about it. I've read here where girls are forced to tell their sexual and drug histories and then if they really don't have any, they are forced to write about it anyway or they will suffer serious forms of punishments. To avoid those punishments they make up anything they can think of. Most of it they learned once they arrived at MMS. Then these "histories" are given to parents who believe their daughter is so far worse than they ever imagined and they leave her in the program for a couple of years instead of a few months. Quite clever, Mercer.

Practices at MMS are not based on long-term studies that are proven to help children with the host of emotional problems accepted at MMS.

How can they justify taking in girls with suicidal issues, cutting issues, depression, sexual abuse, rape, and the list could go on forever? How? They aren't qualified.

Maybe they have a therapist there, but what about the private "group" sessions done with Mercer and the girls? The ones where he forces them to reveal their deepest darkest secrets? He's made them tell all, sometimes revealing all of the horrible things that happened to them while they were raped, and then he sends them off to bed? No follow-through? What then?

Again, how can they justify that this is good for a child? I've read it here and I have no reason to doubt what these girls are saying. Too many stories to not believe them at this point. Even the girls who are pro-MMS will admit there were some things that went on there that they think were not right. The writing is on the wall.

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Mission Mountain School / woodbury strugglingteens.com survey
« on: July 31, 2005, 03:49:00 PM »
He recommends WWASP and other facilities known to be abusive. Here are some archived articles about MMS (some of these you will want to search "mission mountain" as they are just short clips within a larger document):

http://www.strugglingteens.com/archives ... /oe04.html
[The author is the daughter of Woodbury Reports publisher Lon Woodbury and his wife Denise. Kristie graduated from the Explorations Wilderness Assessment Course in Montana in 1993, and Mission Mountain School, also in Montana. Her presence at Woodbury Reports is a demonstration of the positive relationship that has evolved since she has returned from the above-mentioned programs.]


Pro MMS & NATSAP:
http://www.strugglingteens.com/archives ... 319xi.html

Might find this interesting:
http://www.strugglingteens.com/archives ... /oe02.html

1996 visit to MMS:
http://www.strugglingteens.com/archives ... sit02.html

http://www.strugglingteens.com/archives ... ews03.html

http://www.strugglingteens.com/archives ... sit03.html

http://www.strugglingteens.com/archives ... sit02.html

http://www.strugglingteens.com/archives ... ews04.html

http://www.strugglingteens.com/archives ... 05snh.html

http://www.strugglingteens.com/archives ... /oe04.html

Here's where it all started:
http://www.strugglingteens.com/archives ... een01.html

Not sure if any of you have seen this before, but it indicates Mercer will be back at the school full-time (this was written in 2004):
NEWS FROM MISSION MOUNTAIN SCHOOL
(Apr. 15, 2004) Colleen Harrington, http://www.missionmountain.com has recently assumed the new position of Assistant Head, after having taught English for 13 years. Her responsibilities will include parent, consultant and alumni communications. Colleen is currently initiating an alumni association and has been in contact with over 100 students. She is also pleased to announce that to date, five members of the graduating of class of 2004 have received over $300,000 in scholarship offerings to such schools as Whittier, Santa Clara and Chapman in California, Pacific University in Oregon, Antioch College in Ohio, and McLees Rae College in Maryland. John Mercer, Headmaster, announces that although he has been on a reduced schedule since the birth of his second daughter in October, he is now back to school on a full-time basis and will work directly with the students again. He will also resume doing equine therapy with families during family visits and parent retreats.

And NATSAP is born:
http://www.strugglingteens.com/archives ... ews01.html

Thanksgiving 1992:
http://www.strugglingteens.com/archives ... een01.html

More of the story by Kristie Vollar:
http://www.strugglingteens.com/archives ... /oe03.html

And even more:
http://www.strugglingteens.com/archives ... /oe04.html

Re reunion:
http://www.strugglingteens.com/artman/p ... 5095.shtml

MMS beginnings - very interesting!
http://www.strugglingteens.com/archives ... ews04.html

http://www.strugglingteens.com/archives ... een01.html

1992 article by Mercer:
http://www.strugglingteens.com/archives ... ews04.html

And another by Mercer:
http://www.strugglingteens.com/archives ... ews03.html

Another by Kristie, recommending another program that reminds her of MMS:
http://www.strugglingteens.com/archives ... 0404vr.htm

Interventions, by Kristie:
http://www.strugglingteens.com/archives ... /oe05.html
[The author is the daughter of Woodbury Reports publisher Lon Woodbury and his wife Denise. Kristie graduated from the Explorations Wilderness Assessment Course in 1993, and Mission Mountain School in 1994, both in Montana. She was inspired to write this article after participating in conversations with other parents while working at her father?s office. Her presence there is a demonstration of the positive relationship that has evolved since she has returned from the above-mentioned programs.]

Another Kristie article:
http://www.strugglingteens.com/archives ... /oe05.html

And another:
http://www.strugglingteens.com/archives ... /oe03.html

Georgia parents praises MMS:
http://www.strugglingteens.com/archives ... /oe01.html

How long is long enough? By Kristie:
http://www.strugglingteens.com/archives ... /oe06.html

http://www.strugglingteens.com/archives ... /oe03.html

Here's where I got my search from:
http://www.google.com/search?q=mission+ ... gteens.com

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