Flaming, in general, even to release pent-up anger, is pointless. I was once in a completely separate topic newsgroup, and know firsthand how a "Flamewar" just feeds on itself, and hurts the real reason this webpage is here.
I don't doubt that the anonymous poster above has VERY valid issues to make about what he resents in Sabro, but perhaps this group, or specifically this very important thread isn't the right venue...?
And about this topic. I've been asking myself this question for years. Can't someone DO something about these sorts of schools. (Of course, my self-venting usually descends into rants about how few civil rights children have, and how they are little more than their parent's property, but that's for another time.)
ARE there -good- schools? Where kids are treated with respect & fairness, properly diagnosed & given supportive options for working out their issues? I guess, but what about all the ones that AREN'T?
Reporting is the most logical, and vital action. (if one can reach someone to report any abuse, and get that someone to believe a "trouble kid".)
Get the media involved? Tougher than you think. I worked in "the Media" once (ok, financial news ain't exactly the hight of investigative journalism.) but I know that the popular media, like everyone else, is only in it for the money. If it ain't attention grabbing, with LOTS of scandal, lots of visuals & sound bites, and comes from a credible source, forget it. Hell, more than one famous TV person sent their own kids to CEDU/RMA, you think they want to bring THAT up? And why risk the potential slander lawsuits, and/or loss of sponsors, just to help a couple dozen kids? Maybe "A Current Affair"...
Was someone making a documentary? That would be great, but expensive. Good luck with backers. (Maybe Michale Moore's looking for a new target.)
Write a book/edit together a compilation? Easy enough to do, (if tricky to make an interesting read.) but again, who will publish it?
sorry about the negativity I put after each suggestion, but that's my nature. I would of course support ANY initiative to find, investigate & expose any abusive program out there, but how to insure that does not turn into a witch hunt, torching the good with the bad? I don't know, maybe it can't. But the horror stories told here, and the stories CEDU staff told of Provo & Secret Harbor to frighten us into behaving "back in the day" just make me so angry. And helpless to do anything.