blownawaytheidahoway

[Anonymous]

Stina wrote:

Have her parents said that she won't be able to see all of you (the rest of her family) when she eventually comes on a home visit?

Home visits? Home visits? That's some kind of mirage in the desert.

There has been no communication whatsoever with any family member other than her parents. Both sides of the family, not even siblings, not her grandmother, no one. Almost 2 years now. Some letters were allowed to be sent, but we later learned none had been given to her. I'm not sure she's been allowed off campus with her parents more than once or twice.

Of course we are told this is all her fault, and that but for her bad behavior (and ours), we would be able to see her.

Auntie Em

This makes my blood boil. Want to go on a road trip with me and bust her out of there?

Only if the car can fit 150 people. We can call it the freedom train.

Yeah, yeah, I know you weren't asking me...

Man, I should totally just go up there, say I am alumni, and ask to run an inter-school last light where both NWA and BCA attend. (Alumni would do that when I was there.) Then just get up in front of the house and tell everyone to get the fuck out of there as fast as their little legs will carry them, and hopefully get out enough info before the staff physically drag me from the pit.

no prob., we now have SCHOol buSSes

[psy]

Stina wrote:

AuntieEm wrote:

Please keep yourselves safe when you decide to explore old journals, notebooks, or otherwise re-live the experience. May I suggest you tell a therapist or trusted friend that you intend to do this. (I hope you have someone who fits that criteria.) Ask him or her to check on you. I would hope you would not do this without a support system of some kind.

I find your stories traumatic and I didn't live them. Please take care of yourselves.


AuntieEm

You seem like an amazing woman. Will you be my aunt too?

Well, dang, that made my day. Sure, Stina, how nice of you to ask. And I needed your kind gesture today.

It's been very rough going lately -- it now looks like we may not see our niece for several more years. They appear to be grooming her parents for one of the "finishing schools" for 18-24 year olds.

Dollars to dimes they have her slated to go to Benchmark Young Adult School (where I was).  At least when I was there there were a bunch of kids who were in CEDU schools just previously.  It's more accurately a "finishing off" school though.  I wouldn't recommend it.

[Anonymous]

same kinda cool bullshit happened to my friend.after the penis people came. Rea triedto tell him his grades sucked or something. and that it was his fault. it probably was. halfly. but the conclusion is the best.  my brother, he was like, you know what what; you took me on god knows how many other things in the last 6 months and i've actually been in class 2 days (AND HE WAS BEING NO SHIT).  what do you want me to do?  a D.  No fuck that (Rea), you're gonna pass me.


and he of course did.




icomeanon

[dishdutyfugitive]

sleep it off -

post tomorrow.

[dishdutyfugitive]

bro,

you really got to go to some writing classes.

you really got to get your shit together.

you leave us no other choice but write you off for being a an enigma wrapped in a conudrum twisted in a riddle..

[dishdutyfugitive]

the penis people are back

they firehosed you in carmen earl hot box juice

[blownawaytheidahoway]

Just so it is stated here for the record.:

Richard Armstrong was the staff that did my orientation. He also started at least one company- a very important aspect of the troubled teen industry- the "escort" business. Richard Armstrong also worked with additional staff he borrowed from Rocky Mountain Academy, a Twila Stephenson*. When Twila didn't want to mix business and pleasure with Armstrong... he didn't see it that way. So, our former counselor from RMA, who forced me to bend over and show him, up close and personal, my privatest of privates when I was alone with him for the first time as a fourteen year old who had just been left 3,000 miles from my everything, went on to DRUG and RAPE and unconciouss co- worker who turned off his advances! a few years later.

This "school", or ahem, "ACADEMY", employed an entire atmosphere of fear, lies, and deception. Worse, it claimed, demanded you believe, and finally swore the opposite: that it functioned with Truth, Love, and Honesty. A child who is left at a place like that, and encouraged to adopt the confusing ideology of the place, will turn out very, very, perplexed (to put it perfectly innocently) for a long time. 

[Baby Cakes]

...went on to DRUG and RAPE and unconciouss co- worker who turned off his advances! a few years later.

God that's horrific. I didn't know that. Doesn't really surprise me tho.

...A child who is left at a place like that, and encouraged to adopt the confusing ideology of the place, will turn out very, very, perplexed (to put it perfectly innocently) for a long time.

That's a super benign and interesting way of putting it. Perplexed. I like.