You're right, Perri. My dad didn't take me out of the program. I actually had to go through the courts w/ a CPS lawyer/advocate and support from one of my brothers.
But afterward, there was the early rudamentary version of what has become the 'exit plan'. Basically, they disowned me, hoping I'd fall flat and come crawling back. But when that didn't happen after a few months, my dad broke ranks. Not saying I didn't have significant problems getting on track, I did. But my dad had gone back to the old fashioned "plan A" where parents love and support their kids unconditionally, set high expectations but don't use coercion. It's like he figured out that we both had a lot to figure out and he quit being so harsh and judgmental. Meant the WORLD to me.
It's really never too late.
The college idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take science courses and learn something about it.
--P.J. O'Rourke
