As someone who was a student at HLA very recently (including while the riding program was in place), I can tell you that it is definitely not any fun at all. If it is more fun now than it used to be, then I can't imagine what you all had to go through. Let me just say that if you were to ask any current student at HLA if they think it is at all enjoyable to be there, they would not only tell you that it is not, they would also tell you that it is a terrible place to be, and that nobody wants to be there at all. It is understandable for people to resist when they are first sent away to a therapeutic environment, or sent anywhere for that matter, but the fact is this: if the students felt that the school was helping them, there would surely be a few of the older students who would admit that going there was for the better after all, and there would not be so many people who have so many horrible things to say about the place. Open your eyes! It is a glaringly obvious problem when none of the students have anything positive to say about the place that is supposed to have saved their lives.
P.S. - The school has only been open for 12 years, and there are already at least hundreds of people who went there and are now a part of the fight to close it down.
