Mitt Romney is BIG on his fundraisers. However there is also a stark reality to his plans and what he supports. One of those things is the out-dated therapeutic tactics believed to torture troubled teens. Romney has a strong financial connection with child-abusing business man Robert Lichfield, proud owner of abusive therapeutic schools, RTC's, and wilderness programs known as WWASPS (World Wide Association of Special Programs and Schools). There are now only less than 5 WWASPS schools still open after the rest were forced to shut down after allegations of abuse. Also under this umbrella of abusive program support is a connection with Mel Sembler founder of Straight Inc., another company now defunct that also ran therapeutic programs. Sembler is also a close friend of the Bushes.
Source: http://reason.com/archives/2007/06/27/romney-torture-and-teens
It's so sad and sick to think that Mitt Romney is top-ranked in the polls for Republican candidates. Just imagine what it the so-called troubled teen industry would look like if he were elected president. Not a pretty sight.
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Friday, December 30, 2011
Amazing Program Closures in 2011
With the year coming to an end, it's time to recap the nations progress in ending the controversial troubled teen industry. A good amount of schools have been closed an even properties sold to other private educators! And what's best is that there is a new revival of the failed treatment bill proposed in 2008 called the "Stop Child Abuse in Residential Treatment Programs for Teens Act of 2011! This is just one step closer to bringing the whole black market industry down since abusive practices is the only thing these programs operate on.
Schools closed this year were; Elan, Ridge Creek School, and even a WWASPS facility Mentor School. One amazing feat is a new christian boarding school has opened on the site of the closed Carolina Springs Academy, another WWASPS school closed in 2009.
Let's hope to see much more facilities shut down in 2012!
Schools closed this year were; Elan, Ridge Creek School, and even a WWASPS facility Mentor School. One amazing feat is a new christian boarding school has opened on the site of the closed Carolina Springs Academy, another WWASPS school closed in 2009.
Let's hope to see much more facilities shut down in 2012!
Friday, December 23, 2011
Why all boarding schools (theraputic or not) NEED Winter Break!
As many of you know, the unlawful troubled teen industry is year-round. You may be asking what the problem is with that. Well one of these problems is skipping out on Christmas Break and spending it away from their families in a strange place with the feelings that they have been abandoned.
Regardless of what this article says, the teens are even more safe at home and feel more comfortable spending Christmas time with their families. If they are neither mentally ill nor facing any criminal charges the family feel happier with them home for the holidays instead of with some residential treatment center that doesn't know them. Many teens have said that the time they were at these troubled teen programs was their "worst Christmas ever" because it was not like anything they were used to, and thus didn't get many gifts from family.
This is another reason why congress needs to ban these types of educational/therapeutic practices. And have educators enforce a policy where holiday breaks are mandatory for any school and program accreditation.
Regardless of what this article says, the teens are even more safe at home and feel more comfortable spending Christmas time with their families. If they are neither mentally ill nor facing any criminal charges the family feel happier with them home for the holidays instead of with some residential treatment center that doesn't know them. Many teens have said that the time they were at these troubled teen programs was their "worst Christmas ever" because it was not like anything they were used to, and thus didn't get many gifts from family.
This is another reason why congress needs to ban these types of educational/therapeutic practices. And have educators enforce a policy where holiday breaks are mandatory for any school and program accreditation.
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Therapeutic schools are NOT true specialty schools.
The two are often confusing and hard to distinguish and is put into the WRONG category since "special needs" is an umbrella term for all sorts of differences. This is where most parents end up sending their kids to the wrong school and placement. They search special schools instead of college prep and end up with the wrong schools they are looking for. Contrary to popular belief therapeutic boarding schools and specialty boarding schools are two different things. Most notably the WWASPS torture chambers disregard the terms regarding their namesake. (World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools)
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Radio Interview with Boot Camp Survivors
One talk radio interview talks and shares about the traumatic near-death experiences at the now defunct Straight Inc. wilderness therapy. It also mentions that this type of torture therapy was aimed for both adults and teenagers. Here are their stories.
What's even more shocking is that this treatment was only outlawed for adults and yet those regulations do not apply to youth. Thus allowing them to be sent to these torture chambers by their parents for so-called tough love. When listening this, you should be appalled and disgusted by that fact that the younger the individual, the more vulnerable they are to neglect including disabled youth. These are issues to be brought not just to congress, but to the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.N. to see if this rules as torture and cruel and unusual punishment defined by the constitution.
What's even more shocking is that this treatment was only outlawed for adults and yet those regulations do not apply to youth. Thus allowing them to be sent to these torture chambers by their parents for so-called tough love. When listening this, you should be appalled and disgusted by that fact that the younger the individual, the more vulnerable they are to neglect including disabled youth. These are issues to be brought not just to congress, but to the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.N. to see if this rules as torture and cruel and unusual punishment defined by the constitution.
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