There were some staffers who meant well and who treated kids with dignity. The problem was that Brown and CEDU were always an autocratic dictatorship run by people who were under-educated and schooled only in one cult philosoply of CEDU.
Nevertheless, It was sad. I can count on one hand (including myself) the staff who would stand up to the system when their jobs were at risk. In 26 years - one hand.
All of us were forced out, just like nonconformists of any Genre, from any cult.
I give credit only to those who stood up for the fellow dissenters against the tyranny done to kids and staff to the bitter end.
I agree with Serb, on the violins. (you crack me up Serb) Why? Because, when my therapist job was on the line, everyone, and I mean every so called deep relationship and friend turned their backs on me and walked away. That is, everyone except the kids and some of the parents who contacted me and praised me after I was gone.
What am I saying? I am saying that all the "friends" there are fake friends, and every staffer who left quickly found that out when he was shunned after he left the school - sometimes even by his family.
What lesson is contained in this? It is that there is no "real" CEDU culture unless you dedicate your life to making everyone who ever worked there "feel good about themselves - and everything they do."
You had to conform totally devoid of independent thinking, brainwashed, like a sensitivity robot. If you changed, your friends disappered. It was like that for the kids too.
Serb, dude, you got it right, but I do feel sorry - even for even some of those people who turned their backs on me. All I can say to them is the following: Take this as a lesson of what your so called friends felt. You trusted the wrong entity Brown. And don't bother praising the Mel Wasserman family. Yes, they were smarter, but they cared just as little. The care they showed was fake, just like yours, and all they were after was money. They got it; and you:
What did you get? Now maybe you wil take that face away from that big white ass and pull CEDUs dick out of yours.
Peace