Darrrington              Reply to this Comment

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This school is a joke. Anyone who would send their kid to any of these type of schools is heartless. These schools are torture, brainwashing and hid the real truth of what is going on behind those high walls. Don't do it, save a child's life. There are other ways of helping your child, this isn't. These schools are a way of HARMING your child more.

Darrrington              Reply to this Comment

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This school is a joke. Anyone who would send their kid to any of these type of schools is heartless. These schools are torture, brainwashing and hid the real truth of what is going on behind those high walls. Don't do it, save a child's life. There are other ways of helping your child, this isn't. These schools are a way of HARMING your child more.

dilusional              Reply to this Comment

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all that you said is naive and idiotic...i went there and your full of it. have you ever been there, probably not as a student. i learned more there than i would have out in the world i was in. do yourself a favor and put yourself in other peoples shoes and think before you speak.

both ways              Reply to this Comment

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I worked there. I was told I cared too much for the students and it was all about the money. Some of the kids would come out of "intervention" with bruises and black eyes, bleeding. Yes, some of them needed a lot of attention, but others were in need of care. Half of the students seemed to have parents that just didn't pay attention to them. I don't agree with almost all of the ways they treated the kids.

Parents Please Listen              Reply to this Comment

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Please listen to me. I went to one of these when I was 14. I spent a year and a half there and I have never been the same since. It is now 6 years since I got out, and not a week goes by where some terrible thought bred from my time there comes cropping up. I understand that many parents are desperate, worried about the LIVES of their children even, but this is NOT the answer. I wont claim that NO-ONE finds it helpful, but by and large it simply increases the distrust, resentment, and fear between parents and their children. Creating deep issues that are extremely hard to get over even in the years that follow such an experience. These schools DO lie to the parents, they get away with it because many of the children sent there have lied to their parents and are therefore considered untrustworthy. Also, all mail is screened and children are made aware that mail with "negative comments" in it, will not be sent. My mother finally found this out much later when I was home again. I could go on and on as to the traumatic effects of sending your child to one of these programs. Being sent to these types of places and forced to handle incredible pain with no support and no one you can really talk to honestly (without being severely punished at least) creates an insecurity and deep-seated fear that can easily last well into adult-hood, if not a whole lifetime, causing an entirely new and considerably more dangerous set of behaviors to form. Parents I beg you, consider EVERY other possible option first.

fuck DA              Reply to this Comment

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i hate that place and the man who owned it but hey thanks for buying into my bull! btw that shakespeare book has been trashedd

should have learned              Reply to this Comment

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FOR THOSE OF YOU... who should have learned the first time you went through this program, it is neither brain washing or abusive. You are a manipulator who still doesnt get it. And sounds like your still struggling for not having worked through what you were sent there to work through. I have been to two schools. One was shut down and i graduated from darriton. Being that i have worked in intervention, R&R and worked through level 1-6. Id say i have just as much if not more experience. Yes im sure ppl come out with bruises B/c i watched them slam their heads into walls in rebellion. It IS NOT because of the staff!!! So for those of you who were given a gift when ur parents were at wits end and you did nothing with it, I am not surprised at all that your no better off than you were when you went in. On the other hand I have been out for 6 years as well coming up and 8 years clean. And the experience changed my life. FOR THE BETTER. I Would not be successful with out the help of these people.