I wouldn't worry about Ken Kay talking to 20/20. This reference to "an exclusive TV program to tell WWASP's side of the story" was Kay's answer to NY Times asking for comment on their TB piece. Gosh, sounds typical for WWASP, especially when they won't let any reporter or even government official into the lower level areas so as not to "disturb" the students.
I was asked recently if I had only 20 words, what would I object to most in WWASP. Uuhhhmmm....secrecy and isolation. I live in the Northern California town where two cardiac surgeons were accused of faking, ..er, "overestimating"...the numbers of heart surgeries required of patients in their hospital. A very lucrative specialty, the local Tenet hospital even advertised itself on TV as #1 in the state in such procedures. These 2 doctors were liked and respected by a lot of the hospital staff, but they stonewalled big-time and refused to offer comment or "the other side of the story", even as the area newspapers tried to present an unbiased story. The upshot of all this secrecy was that both doctors no longer practice (one was suspended, the other quit his practice because he could no longer get malpractice insurance). Tenet Health Care's stock took a 60%+ nosedive, and the company is scampering to answer regulators' questions. Couldn't happen to a nicer corporation.
Exposure, exposure, exposure...just get it out there. You wonder how their recruitments are going, if even a cursory Google search brings up tons of horrors. There are presently only about 2200 people on the planet who are dense enough to "overlook" some dissing and send their kids off to such facilities. Read The Source, the official WWASP magazine, on the wwasp.com site. It's so sappy and fake (no kids I know talk like that!) that one wonders about the gullability of parents. Each article is purported to be written by a kid or parent, along with the facility and date of enrollment. Most are long-timers, 2 years or so, and very few are graduates (the majority still in WWASP facilities). This month's issue had an article "written" by 2 boys at Cross Creek who got taken on a hike into Zion by their "therapist". Turns out, just 4 boys went, all old-timers, and it was a day-hike just down the road from CCM. It was "a memory that I will never forget and probably an experience I will never have again", even though part of it was the therapist sitting the kids down in solitude so they could "think(ing) of my past and things leading up to the present". After 2 years, they still have to dwell on being little shits when they were younger? Wow...one short memorable day, when a "normal" teen experience would include hundreds of remarkable days in the 725 days of these boys' incarceration.
Keep the story in the press, call your local papers and ask that they print the AP or NYT feed, challenge the WWASP Party Line in forums like this one, share your information with anyone you can think of. Don't quit.
