That thread, "Brandi Elliott resigns" is wrongly named. She had to be fired - or offered an opportunity to resign. Here's how I know:
In the letter she wrote and posted to Lon's website, she says that she does not know the direction she will take. No one willingly quits a job in this way. She would be posting on his site about her new ventures. She does not say she is retiring, although she has made great money for an uneducated, ignorant person. She started that job at $75,000. Then she got her fake degree at California Coast "University." This is a non-accredited, mail-order school. A diploma mill. She strutted around so proud of her "degree!" It was a big joke. But, be aware, there are A LOT of fake degrees at CEDU. Plenty of 'em.
She is abusive and power-hungry. I remember her instructions to staff to ignore the advice of the therapists. She had conflict with them. Who would have conflict with therapists? I'll tell you who - someone who is ignorant, uneducated, and power-hungry. Brandi Elliott.
She has enough intelligence, but she has no class. She carries with her an aura of a person from generations of trailer trash. Even her stupid name - Brandi - shouts this out. I remember when I was hired I wondered about this. Only trailer trash types name their daughters Brandi - with an "i" even! We used to talk about that - she might as well have been named Sunshyne or some stupid shit like that.
Brandi talked in propheets about her slutty past. We all saw her as a slut in the present. She flirted with some of the boys - that post about her being willing to jump in the mud and wrestle with the kids cracked me up! HA! She loved it. She wanted everyone to think she was sexy, and she certainly didn't mind being in the mud with those boys.
I will never know why CEDU Running Sprnigs promoted her as they did. When she was promoted, Jim Powell was running the place. He was an ignorant bastard, as well. I was too low down the food chain to know how these things happened... but I did notice the WORST, most ignorant, and most abusive persons being promoted - Brandi Elliott and Russ Decker. They were just IGNORANT. Brandi's favorite word was "manipulate." All the kids were manipulating. If a kid was in genuine pain, he was manipulating. Only the kids who learned to bullshit were favored by her. I saw it happen - and some kids told me about it. They said they learned to bullshit her and look good without being a "look-good." Some of these kids really learned to con her.
I knew some kids who AWOL'd and while they were in town, they saw her "dirty dancing" in a bar with men. That became a big joke. In propheets, she talked about what a slut she had been. We all knew she STILL WAS a slut! She loved the attention of males and she loved bashing everyone.
She was so ignorant, she would diagnose kids. I remember a kid who was psychotic and she said he was manipulating. He was PSYCHOTIC! He was hallucinating and having delusions. His parents removed him.
I remember a kid who had a mild case of autism. The therapists all said so. Brandi said she was bulemic. Her diagnostic criteria? She said, "she has the same empty look in her eyes that I had when I was bulemic." It was FUCKING UNBELIEVABLE! Diagnosis by an "empty look"?!?! There was a doctor (Soltani) there who said the girl was autistic. Brandi, the ignorant slut, told us that he was being manipulated! He was a DOCTOR and she was saying that SHE was diagnosing the kid! And she didn't even have her fake degree yet!
Clearly, I have major issues with Brandi Elliott. Why is that? Why am I even talking about her stupid, trailer trash name? I'll tell you why - because she was mean to staff, mean to the kids, and even mean to the therapists. She manipulated parents and labeled everyone else as manipulating. If she was a decent person, I'd never mention her name. I wouldn't care. I would be telling you how great she was, how insightful, how respectful of others' feelings. Well, I'm NOT saying that, because she was an ignorant tyrant who kept us all on edge. We hated her. I still do, and I haven't worked in that hell hole for years. I'll never forget Brandi Elliott. I'll never forget what a fucking, ignorant, mean-spirited whore she was.
I went on to school after my CEDU experience. I got a REAL degree at a REAL school. I've moved way, way on past Brandi Elliott. But she'll always be with me. My terrible memories of working under her will be with me forever. The way the kids talked about her flirting with the boys and the way she labeled kids who were truly suffering as manipulators will never fully leave my memory. Fortunately, on most days I never give her a thought. But seeing these posts about her brings it all back so vividly. She made our lives hell and she didn't care - she only wanted power. Parents - TAKE NOTE - this is the kind of person CEDU values and promotes. An ignorant person with a fake degree from a mail-order "university." Someone who leaves such a mark on staff that years later just the mention of her name brings back terrible memories and feelings. If she came to work IN ANY CAPACITY in any place where I work, I would QUIT immediately. I'm not kidding. I want nothing to do with her ever again and I never want to see her again.
I'll hate her until I die.
