Author	Topic:   Hidden Lake Academy
KC	posted 10/21/05 6:27 PM       This goes out to Hidden Lake Academy and its super computer geeks who destroyed and re did this webpage good job You are a fucked up school and I hope you read and delete this agian your school is going down legally and i hope you are prepared please listen to this qoute it is nice " FUCK YOU" This is from a PG 70 member hahaha
KC	posted 10/21/05 6:40 PM       HLA FORUMS BACK POST
KC	posted 10/21/05 9:02 PM       Where is Buccalottio through all this GAY Porno fag hahah
Best	posted 11/3/05 7:59 PM     PG 73 dude kc wats up yea hidden lake was gay as fuck im glad that i got the fuck outta there but i hope that all is going wel for every1 who got out and those of which in fact culdnt get outta there or w/e but ne wayz holler back
Will	posted 11/7/05 5:55 AM       KC!!!! whats up man. this is Will, You went to Ridge with me and they yanked your ass out of there and took you to jail or somethin. im out of that place and hopefully you are too!
KC	posted 11/8/05 4:40 PM       WHO IS THE ONE IN PG 73??? IM HERE WHATS UP AND KNOW CLARIFY I WENT TO COLLEGE HAVE AN APARTMENT NO JAIL OR LOCKDOWN HLA IS FULL OF SHIT
hmm	posted 11/12/05 3:34 AM     HLA was not nearly as bad as everyone makes it out to be... maybbe it's time to re-evalute the situation and figure out how bad off you would be if you'd never have gone there...
yo nukkah	posted 11/28/05 0:03 AM     yo .. fuck
stephanie	posted 12/1/05 8:31 PM       hey my name is stephanie i was in peer group 50, i went there innocent and after 3 years i cmae out worse then i ever thought i could be....right now i am writing a book about hla and my experince if anyone would like to write anything to me about what you think it would help alot thanks you sen it to stepherbug997@yahoo.com
hmm	posted 1/16/06 11:30 PM     all former HLA students do is bitch and whine about unjust treatments... it's really immature, and ridiculous... GET OVER IT AND MOVE ON! it wasnt nearly what you make of it.
Mother	posted 1/30/06 9:56 PM     What I find sad, contrary to the minimal number of children who complain that their lives were RUINED are the few people who step up and point out most of these kids were spoiled to begin with, and were annoyed they were not allowed to continue their mis-behavior -- which, by the way, was the reason they were sent there in the FIRST PLACE. Grow up, you little brats. You sicken me. Oh, and thank you very much, my daughter came out of Hidden Lake quite happy and enjoying the world around her -- she had been suicidal two years ago. As for some of these absolutely ridiculous stories I'm hearing -- gad, how dramatic, and completely deceitful.
ac	posted 2/18/06 9:31 PM     Look at all the children still trying to "Manipulate". Isn't that one of the reasons you were sent to HLA? GROW UP!
Deborah	posted 3/21/06 9:29 PM     Looking for all the old HLA threads that disappeared? You can find them here: http://fornits.com/wwf/viewforum.php?forum=41&6625
Mia	posted 4/17/06 6:53 PM     I'm confused, is this place so awful? were there no benifits to attending there? I'm concerned about what really happens at places that call themselves schools for emotional growth. someone come back
isaac mariner	posted 5/10/06 7:48 PM       I HAVE A FRIEND WHO HAS A SON AT hla TODAY THEY WERE TOLD THAT THEY COULD NOT SEE THEIR SON WHO IS NOW IN THE WILDERNESS PROGRAM FOR THE PROMISE D1 HOUR. THEY CLAIM A JOINT COMMISION RULE. TIS DOES NOT SOUND RIGHT! COULD HE BE HURT? MALNOURISHED? GOT INTO AFIGHT? SOMETHING IS FISHY. pLEASE HELP!!
isaac mariner	posted 5/10/06 7:48 PM       I HAVE A FRIEND WHO HAS A SON AT hla TODAY THEY WERE TOLD THAT THEY COULD NOT SEE THEIR SON WHO IS NOW IN THE WILDERNESS PROGRAM FOR THE PROMISE D1 HOUR. THEY CLAIM A JOINT COMMISION RULE. TIS DOES NOT SOUND RIGHT! COULD HE BE HURT? MALNOURISHED? GOT INTO AFIGHT? SOMETHING IS FISHY. pLEASE HELP!!
Don't worry	posted 6/12/06 4:52 AM     Wilderness treatment although it can be tough, is more than safe and can be an awesome benefit to the kid. Similar to NOLS or outward bound just with more structure and confidence building stuff. Don't stress they will be fine
cool	posted 7/7/06 6:27 AM     cool site http://www.myspace.com/cafety
Charleen	posted 7/18/06 0:49 AM       This joke of a school isnt the righ way to change your kids. The staff are bitches and the nice ones get fired. The counselors couldnt give 2 shits about the children or what punishments they give them. I went to this pieca shit school fo 4 months unfortunately and i didnt learn shit. Believe me i tried.... when ur stuck in a place like that u definitely consider all tha positive aspects of ur situation. I dont think i ever thought of suicide until tha day i came to HLA. And then after like a month when they knew i had come out of ASPEN ACHEIEVEMENT ACADEMY (difficult wilderness program)they sent me to ridge creek because gillian (one of my counselors) which, by tha way i hope that bitch gets raped one of these days, thought i needed to be sent to a wanna be boot camp. Well if your reading this i want u to know that ur a stupid fuckin whore of a bitch and i would like for u to come to my house so i can start bombin on ur ass cuz i hate u so much bitch. You thought u could brainwash my parents and drain my dad of his money but they came to their senses and took me out bitch so u must have felt like a dumbass huh? Bullshit ur tryin to help people. cuz if u were u would have started a good relationship with me so i would gain respect for you which leads me to following the rules. treating like a child only made me act like one u dumb trick. And then of course there is FALL OUT!!!! this one was special.... of course a good alternate name for that would be..."narc out" or a little more specific "rat on your friends" the only way these idiot counselors could know what the hell is going on is by blackmailing everyone. u better have hoped u didnt know of anything going on that was against tha rules or u got fucked in tha ass. SO basically coming to tha conclusion that u get sent to this place that is new with no1 u know no friends or family and u have a strict daily schedule that never changes, get put on "bans" (have to stay away from some1 and cant talk to them) if you become too close to anyone as a friend or significant other and you get on restrictions and the staff is constantly trying to find new ways to get you into trouble like leaving your curtains open??? God theres so much more im too lazy to write but one of tha main ones is tha food.... its freken horrible! imagine eating tha same boxed frozen food everyday for 2 years or however long ur there. Tracy was the only person there i was catually happy around. Jennifer Nowicki ima look ur ass upone day and fuckin teach u a lesson bitch. Just because u had a hard time in life with the way u look and ur nasty body and personality doesnt mean u should become a control freak. Doing what u do i bet ull become a child molestor or some shit u fuckin ugly whore. Please respond to this bitch i really wana hear what u or anyone else at that fuckin dump has to say pleaseee. Anyway for all u dummies with your comments tellin us to "grow up" n shit, go fuck yourselves, attend tha school for yourself and then open up ur ignorant mouthes. anyway thats all fer now... adios mother fuckers
joel	posted 7/18/06 9:15 PM     This is for Charleen; maybe you could make something of yourself if you learned how to spell as well as you curse!
Cecil	posted 8/14/06 7:48 PM     Charleen: the only thing posts like yours accomplish is solidify WHY you bounce from program to program. Look at how you act and speak. It's pathetic and sad. No one feels any empathy for you, or anyone else on this board screaming and cursing about "mistreatment"; take a step back and realize you went to these places because you're idiots to begin with.
Deborah	posted 10/29/06 8:03 PM     Federal Class Action Filed Against HLA http://wwf.fornits.com/viewtopic.php?t=17700 Read the complaint here: http://www.bergermontague.com/case-summary.cfm?id=155
Saj	posted 1/6/07 4:50 AM     Nano-technology http://kotkun.hollosite.com/nanotechnology-explained.html Nano-technology
Aimee	posted 2/9/07 3:40 PM     BSA Main page http://bsa.arcadepages.com/ BSA Main page
BLT	posted 2/23/07 6:03 PM     I intend to get involved with this lawsuit asap. This school needs to be shut down. The people who work there are sick and anybody who defends it is just as sick. So much shit goes on there and it needs to stop. I wouldnt wich HLA upon my worst enemy. Luckily my parents realized what this school was up to and pulled me.
RAMBO	posted 6/21/07 6:19 PM     HLA WAS BUILT FOR ONE REASON; MONEY! THE FOUNDERS KNEW THEY COULD USE (MANIPULATION) TO CONVINCE DESPERATE AND EXHAUSTED PARENTS THAT HLA COULD SAVE THEIR CHILDREN. BROCHURES MAKE IT OUT TO BE A SUMMER CAMP. IN REALITY ITS A BOOTCAMP. I NEVER GOT PHONE CALLS FROM MY SON AND WHEN I DID THEY WOULD ABRUPTLY INTERRUPT AND SAY HE WAS HAVING TROUPLE EXPRESSING HIMSELF, SO ON AND SO ON. HE LATER SHOWED ME LETTERS I HAD WRITTEN HIM WITH MARKER LINES THROUGH WHOLE PARAGRAPHS. THE INTENTION OF THE STAFF HAS ALWAYS WORRIED ME. MONEY AND CONTROL SEEM TO EXCITE THESE PEOPLE. HMMM. THE COUNSELORS WOULD CALL AND LIE EVERY PHONE CALL. EITHER HE IS BAD AND THATS WHY HE NEEDS THE STRUCTURE. OR HES DOING GREAT AND THATS WHY HE SHOULD STAY, HES GROWING. I WAS NEVER INFORMED OF RESTRICTIONS OR CHALLENGES, WORK PROJECTS, SMOKE SESSIONS, FALL OUTS, ISO. IF YOU PULL YOUR CHILD YOU WILL LOOSE YOUR DEPOSIT AND FORGET ABOUT TRANSCRIPS. HLA'S BIGGEST ALLY IS BY FAR THE EDUCATIONAL CONSULTANTS. THEY HAVE FINANCIAL AGREEMENTS BETWEEN EACHOTHER. BASICALLY IF SO AND SO GOES TO HLA BECAUSE OF A CERTAIN ED CONSULTANT RECCOMENDATION THAT CONSULTANT GETS PAID WITH YOUR CHILDS TUITION. ALSO HLA FITS MORE OF A MOLD FOR EMOTIONALLY DISTURBED CHILDREN, CUTTERS SUICIDALS ETC. IF YOU HAVE THE MONEY YOUR CHILD CAN ATTEND. THEY ACCEPT ANYONE AND EVERYONE. THEY HAVE DO AND WILL MANIPULATE THE FAMILIES. THAT IS THE EXACT THING THEY ACCUSE THE CHILDREN OF. THEY LIMIT CONTACT WITH THE CHILDREN AND FAMILIES SO THEY DO NOT KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON, ONLY WHAT THEY TELL YOU IS GOING ON. IF YOU TRULY DISLIKE YOUR CHILD SEND THEM TO HLA, IF YOU REALLY WANT TO HELP THEM RE-EVALUATE YOUR OPTIONS.
MS	posted 6/12/08 7:45 AM     I went to HLA and I have more physical and psychological problems now than I have ever had in my life. I had to get on medication for stomach problems, anxiety and panic attacks, and another disorder I wish not to mention. I now attend the University of Florida, and I have had close to a 4.0 GPA my entire life. So, I am not some person who is rebelling and sending out hate messages to everyone that worked there. All I know is that place does more damage than anyone who didn't go there could possibly understand. It's illegal. It's sadistic. It's just wrong to treat kids that way. I know people that came out of there just fine, but for people like me who had a pretty damn good life going into that place, the end result is very VERY sad.
concerned	posted 7/26/08 8:15 PM       Do not believe the horror stories. Do not believe the kids who say they were mistreated or harmed. Kids there go to class, hike, play music, see movies, have three basically nuturitional meals, have group therapy. They laugh, enjoy each other and have some excellent teachers and counselors. On the other hand the administration is incompetent, greedy, unethical, and twisted. Fortunately most of that does not trickle down to the students directly. What does is the lack of equipment, materials and the level of competency of teachers. There are not enought text books, but the administration hires a developent director to plan fund raisers for unneeded items. No one knows how much money is raised, so there is no accountability. Competent people are fired when they realize what is going on and those who stay are complicit in the misuse of funds, the mismanagement of records and the napoleonic leadership of the president.
Justin Hamilton	posted 7/31/08 0:56 AM     I agree totally with the last statement and will add that the school has a provisional license and falsifies information to maintain accreditation. It has also covered up an sexual abuse problem with a counselor who resigned and then helped the male student with whom he had a relationship run away from the school. The counselor had been allowed to take the student off campus numerous times without other staff supervision. They falsify information to make the school look more successful than it is.
JC	posted 8/13/08 9:27 PM     Understanding your frustrations please take some time to cool down and grow up. Being a part of PG47 I have had first hand experience of what HLA can bring an individual. Stephanie and I can confirm many horror stories, such as limited of food intake during “restrictions” or beatings that occurred during nightfall. Due to extreme conditions HLA was forced to evaluate every candidate on an individual basis. These being a side note I still consider myself a success because of HLA. If my parents didn’t care enough about me to send me to a place like HLA I would either be dead or working a dead end job. As of today I am an aeronautical engineer designing cutting edge technology on a military contract for Lockheed Martin. No I am not in the military but I develop super sonic aircrafts for the government. With that said I am also a sponsored Body Builder hoping to go pro in the next few years. None of this would be a reality if it weren’t for people such as the counselors’ at HLA or especially my family. So all you little kids who are still trying to figure out how to grow up, HLA provided the tools, it’s whether or not you use them for you’re benefit.
Mary	posted 8/27/08 3:55 AM     Whoa! First of all, to the "Mother" who thought it appropriate to call posters 'little brats' that 'sicken' you: nice mouth lady. You come across as super maternal and caring...Christ. Second of all, the "horror stories" are probably a mixed bag of truths and hyperbole, but some of them ARE true, and as long as you're willing to send your kid somewhere like HLA it is your responsibility as a parent to take them all seriously... unless your child's safety ranks low on your priority list. It seems a bit strange that some of you are claiming the program works wonders on one hand, while accusing the students on whom these wonders were worked of lying and manipulating on the other... Third, survivors: If you have a story to tell and want to be taken seriously at all, you really need to express yourselves with civility and maturity... and spell check. Why did you post here? To bitch and threaten and use profanity to the point where it carries no meaning? OR, did you post here to educate some people, maybe get your point across to a confused parent, and hopefully save some kids from going through what you went through? Finally, while it is obviously not literally the worst place in the world, the truth is this: HLA IS a horrible place where mentally, if not physically traumatic events occur. Heres another hot tip: Soylent green is PEOPLE
mj	posted 9/5/08 10:24 PM     I think it is very sad when a parent gives up on their child and sends them to a place like HLA. I know of a child who was sent there and I am very scared for them after reading all of the posts. This child was a good kid, his parents(dad) expected way too much out of him and didn't want to be bothered. Its a lot easier sending a check every month than parenting. I only hope and pray this kid makes it out of HLA o.k
MN	posted 9/24/08 3:15 AM     Philip Zimbardo: How ordinary people become monsters ... or heroes http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/philip_zimbar do_on_the_psychology_of_evil.html "TED Ideas worth spreading" http://www.ted.com
MN	posted 10/9/08 4:56 AM     PBS- Discovering Psychology-Constructing social reality Part 1- http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=pMxbnrxM1o8&feature=PlayList&p=27A1F8DFD AD77088&index=57 (look below the video under "video responses" for the next part)
paul frazell pg 79	posted 10/9/08 5:33 PM     i went to HLA and i was in PG 79.. lookin back i can agree that it wasnt that bad.. but i cant understand any one who would hand over parenting responsibilities to a company. these parents who claim that all the abuse, physical and mental, that is reported is false have 2 be out of their minds. listening in on phone conversations to monitor what is being said, not allowing visits, its all ridiculous. im from california and unlike most families that send their kids there mine isnt wealthy. my parents came for a visit and it was denied. how can a company tell a family that they cant see their son or daughter. i had a councilor tell me to my face that i wasnt going to do any thing with my life. that doesnt sound like the advice a grown man should be telling a 16 year old. so me and a friend from 78 ran away and make it back home. dont believe their shit i never went to a lock down or jail and i graduated from high school and now play college basketball and live in an apartment with some of my teammates. things with my family have never been better and it not from sending me away to a place that does the parenting for you. its from kids and PARENTS taking resosibility for their choices. these people who send their kids there seem to be under the impression that its their kids fault but, it works both ways. i cant pawn my responsibilities on any one else so why do these parents think its ok for them to do so.
Cuminhand	posted 2/19/09 10:57 PM     I went to hidden lake academy and recently graduated. One time when I had done nothing wrong and passed a drug test they later came back and made it so I falied for marijuana they gave me no reason for this and I was punished as if I had done drugs on campus.
hla	posted 3/30/09 8:10 AM     I have been a student at hla for over a year and will be graduating next month. While being at hla has raised my gpa (im a straight A student), I have not learned a single thing in school. Class periods are spent sleeping or reading magizines. no teaching occurs. when an education consultant come in to tour our school we are all told to "Sit up and pretend to be learning smething" until they are out of the building. it is sad how misleading the tours are. I took a tour of hla before i was enrolled there. They told me that students go on trips every weekend. In the year that i have been there, i have been taken on one off campus trip.
Mother2	posted 6/14/09 4:52 PM     My step son is at HLA right now and he's not there because we couldn't parent him or didn't want to parent him. He's there because he failed a year and a half of high school, constantly lied, was caught stealing multiple times, stole the car in the middle of the night, manipulated everyone around him and blamed everyone else for his problems. My husband and I accepted that there had been some inconsistent parenting, spoiling and poor boundries, but no matter how much we tried to change these issues we were constantly sabatoged by his mother and her parents. Placing him at HLA, in a restrictive envrironment and limited communication with the outside world, has worked wonders. We love HLA and so does he. He has been in wrestling, soccer and track and has never felt better about himself. His grades are decent and he enjoys his teachers and his subjects. We love meeting with the staff and counselors and they are available to us whenever we have a question. HLA saved our son's life and our families mental health. Thank you HLA.
Elissa2	posted 6/19/09 3:08 AM       Although, I have never been to HLA, I have been to SUWS wilderness in North Carolina and then a regular boarding school afterwards. But I recently met someone who had attended HLA in 2005-06, I believe. There's nothing wrong with this kid. He's never touched a drug in his life. He doesn't steal, and he does not lie obscenely. HLA had stated that he tried PCP in a bathroom. They informed his parents, who then did not speak to him for a month because they were so upset. He told me that people would go into 'isolation' if a student had done something wrong. Something wrong is anything from lying about whether or not you took your meds to raping a girl. In said 'isolation', the student was given 1,500 calories, and apparently they had to sleep in the middle of a road. I have many more stories about this place, but it would take up too much time. I just feel like if you are a parent who is questioning whether or not you should send your kid, you need to hear the downside of these places, not just the good stories you hear from these places.
saebyeok	posted 7/28/09 4:32 AM     My very best friend was sent to HLA almost a year ago. He is still there. We have talked about three times. His parents were abusing him but found it much more convenient to send in a paycheck rather than try to become better parents and work it out. In the few times I have talked with "Ryan" (name changed for privacy), I can see has changed a lot. But it isn't true change - it's a total cover up of brainwashing. He has been abused at HLA and I know it, I can feel it, in the way he talks. I love him dearly, and now I've lost my most best friend to a greedy, fail program. I could go on and on but it would waste too much time, as it would take days to type it all down and recover every little painful memory. To the survivors of HLA, you have my sympathy. If you have any stories to tell, I am spreading the word about HLA. Email me at angelsdontplaynice@gmail.com. To those who swear at others and say it "saved their child" and tell the people who have actually EXPERIENCED the program that they are a bunch of crap - pardon my language but FUCK YOU. I'm sick of all you idiot parents who don't know a thing about parenting or even being there for your kid. I'm sick of the people who gave up on their child and sent them away. If you are one of those people ranting on about the survivors of HLA and how "full of crap" they are (because they are not), you deserve to have your child taken away from you. Poor thing, having to deal with inconsiderate, disgusting excuses, such as your self. Once again to the survivors, you are loved and not alone in this fight to get justice. loveyourflawz.com ~ For the people who hate their flaws and think they are alone.
jacob Harris	posted 10/26/09 1:40 AM     hla was fucked up i was there for seven months during 2006 when the lawsuits really started going on fortunately i got the fuck out of there and as i see a lot of others did too
Anonymous Alcoholic	posted 11/10/09 9:32 AM     So I'm a drug addict/alcoholic. Sober for about 17 months. I went to HLA when I was 16 in 2004 and left about 11 months later when I was 17. I think PG70 with KC. I was a little entitled brat kid when I went there. I was reasonably depressed. I had suicidal thoughts. I had lost practically all my relationships with friends and family. HLA did help humble me very greatly. That was alright. I definitely appreciated my life a lot more when I left. However, it didn't do SHIT for my alcohol and drug problem. I left there much more eager to try new drugs to try to numb the pain of being in an abusive environment for what I saw as no reason for 11 months. So it is essentially useless as a place to work on alcohol or drug addiction. As well, there were a couple very cool staff there that I liked a lot. Like 2, maybe. The rest just pissed me off. And the ones that me and my friends liked got fired. That is MY EXPERIENCE. My OWN experience. Meaning any opinionated mother can't tell me that I'm wrong because you don't agree with me. There's a little therapy for you. Any ways, my life is awesome today. I've done a lot of work to accept being at that place. I'm truly grateful that I got to experience it, but it should really be shut down.
Super Post grad	posted 11/12/09 6:26 PM     I was in pg 46 and I also spent two years as a post grad. For anyone who knows who I am (i was there for 4 years...) please do not post my name here for legal reasons. During my time at HLA I witnessed many horrible things. I was exetremely depressed and suicidal while I was there and I actually started eating the fattiest foods I could so I could give myself a heart attack and get out. I couldn't tell the staff because the way they deal with suicide risks is rediculous. They would make you sleep in the hallway in a sleeping bag with all the lights on and they would put you on life line, which was a piece of rope that was tied around you and the other end is held by a staff. Basically a leash. I wasn't physically abused at HLA but mentally I am more fucked up than ever. A friend of mine stabbed himself three times in the stomach with a pen tool in art class to get out of the school. Another friend of mine went on a visit home and stabbed his dad and killed him. HLA was a fucked up place and anyone who says otherwise is fucking retarded and has no Idea what it was like. My couselors didn't care about me, i had 6 different counselors in my time there. When I would start to trust one, they would leave. Limiting food intake did in fact go on when you were on restrictions. I will say HLA did humble me, in a big way, but at the same time, my self confidence was destroyed by what went on there and I am still struggling to get it back. I didn't go to HLA for drugs or anything, but for depression and disobediance. While there I developed a severe anxiety disorder as well as several other illnesses. After leaving I started using drugs to deal with what I had been through and ended up spending well over $2000 dollars on pot alone. I also got hooked on Oxycontins for 6 monthes and would spend almost $100 a day on them. HLA fucked me up one side and down the other. Finally I am starting to talk about what went on and what it did to me. To all you survivors out there, we know what we've been through and we know whats real, FUCK THE DOUBTERS AND THE NAY-SAYERS! We know what really went on and no one who wasn't there can ever really understand that. Its like going to war and killing people, people who haven't done it don't understand what it does to a person and how it changes them. Stay strong brothers and sisters, justice shall come to those who have wronged us, be it in this life or the next. Peace
Eclipse	posted 11/30/09 7:02 PM     I was a member of the Eclipse Peer group, that was back in '96. They were just as horrible then as what I have read about recently. I saw all kinds of things that were inappropriate and wrong. I was there 8 months before my parents finally had enough of their lies and bullshit.
David Johnson E2K	posted 12/3/09 8:28 PM       To everyone doubting if we're immature or whatever the reason you think we're less than you, WHY DONT YOU GET YOUR ASS SIGNED UP FOR HLA, Then talk your shyt. I was restrained 3 times for not eating, wheres the point in RESTRAINING me over not choosing to eat? What about the escorts in the vans? What about all the HOMO ASS BULLSHIT going on in there with Len BOotylatos staff and his faggot self. Ridge Creek - WHY IS THEIR SITE NOT WORKING NOW? ITS FORBIDDEN (www.ridgecreek.net) fuck em all and fuck em hard !! F U C K HLA!!!!
Mary	posted 12/6/09 12:00 AM     is this the same place as: http://www.ridgecreekschool.com/
PG 79	posted 12/8/09 6:28 AM     woah Paul! we always wondered what happened to you and Boise. the counselors didnt tell us if yall made it back home or not.
PG 79	posted 12/8/09 6:29 AM     woah Paul! we always wondered what happened to you and Boise. the counselors didnt tell us if yall made it back home or not.
crazy 88s	posted 12/16/09 4:14 AM     to whom it may concern...the mothers mostly. i dont think u would be able to deal with all the bullshit that went on there. i went there for 23 months and now im still kickin it at home doin the same things i did b4 i got sent there. so wat im trying to say is FUCK U, U FUCKIN FUCKS. and this goes out to all the canadiens that worked there. u know and i kno that they were deported as soon as the school got shut down. its only a matter of time b4 this "new" school gets shut down and all i will do is laugh at them.
CA	posted 12/25/09 9:31 PM       I went to Ridge Creek during the summer of 2007 for one month in response to an educational consultant my family had hired. She told us that if I went to Ridge Creek I would have a better chance of getting into a boarding school (non therapeutic) that I wanted to go to. I am from Alabama and was very different from my classmates, and therefore excluded. While these experiences caused major emotional scars, I thought moving away from Alabama was the better way to deal with it all. Taking my ed. consultant's advice, I went to this program knowing little of what was about to occur. I had very limited and monitored contact with my parents. When I left the program I suffered from several injuries in my legs that caused me to have to undergo intense physical therapy. While I gained respect for some of the staff members, my counselor was probably one of the reasons that made my experience most miserable. The physical activity was regulated, yet rigorous, and any student who did not have a background in it would have problems adjusting as I did. I really had respect for the staff, which in the end, if there was any emotional growth, it came from the support of them. My counselor, was very homophobic, and even referred to as so by one staff member. She expressed moderate disregard to physical pain and most emotional pain. Once she talked my parents into sending me to Hidden Lake she virtually stopped treating me. Luckily, I was allowed one weekend with my family in Atlanta where I begged them to not let me go to HLA. I was saved. I ended up going to an episcopal boarding school in Sewanee, TN called St. Andrews-Sewanee where I had one of the most amazing experiences coming into myself as an individual with unbelievable teachers. I learned more at St. Andrews then I think I ever would have at HLA. Now, I attend Parsons the New School for Design, the top design school in the United States if not the world. I do not think I would have been able to achieve all I have at HLA. There's one thing that my counselor, Brigitte told me at Ridge Creek, and that is that I would never make it in New York City. Now, I'm a full time student, I work a part time job and retail to support myself along with my family, and work an internship at a leading fashion PR firm in the city. If anyone would like to contact me about questions please feel free, as I would like to be a more levelheaded graduate of the program and be a steady advocate against this kind of education.
BS?	posted 1/13/10 6:29 PM     i am considering the recreation position at Ridge creek. i dont want to hear a lot of cussing just facts. i have read the whole post and hear 2 sides. i want to make a difference but i dont want to have to quit if this crap is true because i wont allo it in front of me! somebody figure a way to contact me so we can really talk.

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