Your best bet would be to get info from Serb. Serb is one tough son of a gun and CEDU did not break him. (Which is an anomaly.) He split multiple times until he was successful. He went to RPS by choice and loved it. He was very emphatic that it was nothing like CEDU etc. with all the crazy experientials, attack therapy, group therapy, etc.
I think some folks fail to realize that, if ya just happen to be "a perfect fit" for a program for one reason or another, or just "click" with some key staff member in a positive way, the warts are liable to be less apparent.
And if you are comparing it to some
other place, especially one where you definitely
weren't a good fit, those warts will be even less visible. It doesn't mean they aren't there.
Or any less destructive to someone else.Perhaps Serb's way just happened to "fit" with the mix of who was on staff at the time, or a particular staff member took a personal liking to him and hence helped paved his way for him. We don't know, nor may Serb even know. He may only see it from
his side, from the perspective of who he is.
But what about a kid who
doesn't fit with "Rock Point's way?" How does Rock Point deal with
that kid?
The level system, the doling out of "consequences," and the blatant ignoring of info and problems which ordinarily would call for certain accommodations, is a dead give away. For *me*, at least. I don't mind that you apparently don't share my concern.
Incidentally, you mention
Simon's Rock, which is a
college. I do understand that they take certain bright, mature, and self-motivated younger kids in the 10th or 11th grade. But
the goal when attending this institution is a
baccalaureate, not graduating from high school or transitioning back to a (normal) high school for eventual graduation. Sorry, I really do not think we are talking about the same thing here. At all.