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Name: | Christina Diane Smith
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| | Date: | 4/17/2008 8:22:27 PM | | Subject: | Indiana State School for Girls | | | I just wanted it to be known that as a product of "positive peer culture" I believe that I was done more harm than good while being judged by my peers.
While in Indiana State School for Girls I was forced to participate. Then when my father passed away, and after I had also served more than the sentence that I was given, abruptly moved in confinement. I never understood why. I believe that a good majority of my dysfunctional adult life is a direct result of "positive peer culture".
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Name: | Joe
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| | Date: | 3/19/2008 2:40:02 AM | | Subject: | Mount Bachelor Academy | | | I was sent to an "emotional growth" boarding school last year. I was lucky enough to have already developed my sense of self enough to resist the brainwashing techniques employed by "the program."
Of it's mind-numbing doubletalk and rhetoric, the most insidious of which is the term O.D.D., or "oppositional defiant disorder." Apparently if you disagree with or disobey those running the program, you have a disorder. This term is applied whenever anyone actively disagrees or refuses to comply with any rules or regulations imposed by the "school." In several cases, medication is actually prescribed to combat this supposed disorder. The medication given sedates the person and makes them more compliant and generally more susceptable to the mind control tactics of those running the school. It seems that the staff there are of the honest beleif that what they are doing is right and good. Some of the techniques employed in "group" are remarkably similar to those described by the survivors of Synanon, the Drug rehab turned cult that spawned the whole residential teen tough-love industry. This makes sense, considering that Mount Bachelor Academy is modeled after and was founded by Steve and Linda Houghton, former staff members of CEDU, which was founded by Mel and Brigette Wasserman, two early and prominent members of the Synanon cult. The scary thing is that this school is actually one of the milder offshoots of this dangerous organization. If you ever find yourself in such a program, I beg you to remain strong in your identity despite all of the pressure put upon you, keep your wits about you, and trust no one. That is the only way that I have made it out sane. The sad thing is that once parents send their kids to programs, they are manipulated and conned into trusting it entirely. Any pleas made by the child are usually completely useless. As a resident in such a program, you have less rights than are accorded by international law to prisoners. The good thing is that this too shall pass. You will make it out, and if you stay alert and aware of what is really going on around you, you can and will make it out a stronger person for it, not because the program helped you, but because if you have the mental resistance to make it through such a program intact and sane, you can do anything. | | | Post Reply | | |
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Name: | Paige
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| | Date: | 3/18/2008 4:27:05 PM | | Subject: | Cross Creek Program | | | Hi- My step brother was sent to Cross Creek Program located in Utah 2-3 weeks ago. As I learn more about the founders and that Cross Creek is WWASPS headquarters, I am wondering if he is okay there. My parents feel they are on an "emotional rollercoaster" and might not be fully aware to what he may be experiencing there. I would really be appreciative of any feedback from other WWASPS or Cross Creek students or parents. Thanks so much and God Bless. | | | Post Reply | Display replies to this message
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Name: | roberta
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| | Date: | 2/16/2008 10:21:01 AM | | Subject: | help | | | Devereux RTC in Kennasaw GA My son is there and we need help. | | | Post Reply | | |
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Name: | leah carvell
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| | Date: | 11/28/2007 2:05:49 PM | | Subject: | when i was at elan | | | when i first arrived at elan it was ok. even though i was upset and missing my parents i thought that it was going to be ok. i was told before i went to elan that we go to movies,concerts,hockey games,etc it was all a lie they lied in their brochure. all in all i would be in general meetings and people would like talk bout my personal women issues like periods and make fun of my hygene in front of the men, they even one time took all my clothes even my undergarments and took them in front of the house and showed everyone i was so depressed i didnt know wut to do. i would always sum how lose my tooth brush or need a new one and one of the staff one time said wut i prob do is take it and masterbate with it and thats not true she made that comment to upset me when it did. i was made to gi for long periods of times to the point where my knees were bright red. i was put in the corner for long periods of time where i couldnt go out in the hot sun i was made to stay in a little room where i would sleep on a mattress a raggy old thing.and i could only do my hygene when there was no one in the bath room and i could only go to bed after all the others went and i would hae to wake up b4 they did.i was called everyname in the book. my weight was made fun of. i even tried to stop eating thats how depressed i was. they made fun of my clothes my undergarments, i was just emotionally abused there and i hated it i really did and i swear everything i am saying in this is true i am not liying i just dont want wut happened to me to happen to other people. i was in the corner basically all the time, i went long periods of time with out talking to my family, everyone hated me there yea i wasent perfect but people could easily get a way with booking me for sum stupid incident or blame sumthing on my so i finally got the courage to run away on aug 23 2005 when i was on a med trip and i got back to canada cuz my social worker came to get me. i have neevr been so emotionally abused in my life like i literally thought the worse of my self cuz of elan made fun of me siad stuff a bout me i just want this place shuit down | | | Post Reply | Display replies to this message
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