tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14707730.post9091531065826708524..comments2024-03-16T13:43:21.762-04:00Comments on Schools Matter: From CEDU to Brown Schools to Camelot Schools, Inc.James Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04462754705431590571noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14707730.post-14430283260555367802020-06-28T15:05:13.487-04:002020-06-28T15:05:13.487-04:00I was at CEDU/Running Springs from 1978 to 1980. I...I was at CEDU/Running Springs from 1978 to 1980. I never saw them giving anyone a Mercedes Benz that's for sure but they did solicit donations and sell them in a store in Colton, CA. Tons of weird therapy and verbal abuse towards the "students". No real education given.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14707730.post-59506577909284688202017-04-03T01:50:53.525-04:002017-04-03T01:50:53.525-04:00And now in 2017 our school district has signed a...And now in 2017 our school district has signed a contract to bring them in ..our schools for these kids are already dreadful and a nightmare..im a mom who is scared to my core..Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00392207212602648313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14707730.post-363255304354268862017-02-04T21:02:45.293-05:002017-02-04T21:02:45.293-05:00There is another newer book about CEDU "Dead,...There is another newer book about CEDU "Dead, Insane, or in Jail" by Zack Bonnie. It takes place in the 1980s. There is a follow up book coming out in May 2017Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14707730.post-89288333777271636712014-12-21T09:52:52.748-05:002014-12-21T09:52:52.748-05:00Sudents at the Houston school are restrained by be...Sudents at the Houston school are restrained by being thrown against the wall and floors and they are illegally searched. They are thrown in the cold and rain when they misbehave. This is abuse.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14707730.post-7766251088288081412013-03-10T13:04:35.659-04:002013-03-10T13:04:35.659-04:00Read THE DISCARDED ONES: A NOVEL BASED ON A TRUE S...Read THE DISCARDED ONES: A NOVEL BASED ON A TRUE STORY by James Tipper.<br /> It's AMAZING! <br />It is the first book to put you at CEDU c. 1983, at the height of the school's power and influence. But the cool part is that it is a novel told through the eyes of a 14 y.o. student. You experience everything exactly the way you would if you were a new student. GReat read and a service to history and to us all. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14707730.post-68901625234003779062012-10-05T21:53:10.142-04:002012-10-05T21:53:10.142-04:00An industry this is. Been developing nationwide fo...An industry this is. Been developing nationwide for decades. Just spend a few hours online....and read every article that has CEDU as a topic. It begins in the late sixties. It starts there. Very complex and dug-in. It's like a cancer. It has cells seemingly everywhere. They close and open back up. They morph. They're bought and sold. Former students and staff are like acorns from the mighty oak I've read. An early developer of this so-called 'intellectual property'(the 'therapies')was/is a guy named Ehrhart or something like that. Look up 'est' and search for awhile and you'll find an early form of this type of business entity that morphs from one identity to another. From corp. to school....to academy....to education services...the forms are endless. You can trace the progression and developement of this model. Erhart's operation was open for like ten years. Then he closed down and sold his system....to CEDU. CEDU started around the same time just before Erhart closed up shop and then CEDU opened and then within a few years changed it's name slightly. Then it changed it again and again. And this morphing can be seen now nationwide. The more you look the more you find.LOL. The name CEDU branches off. Across the nation. I wonder what state it's not in. <br /> I know someone who left CEDU/Running Springs.Mel Wasserman's operation. They'd had more arms and facets than a Hindu God.LOL. They were hustling parents....business...schools detetion centers..you name it. They made some kids, phone solicit companies for donations of cash or products,that they would sell, in a furniture store Mel owned in a nearby city.For top performers(child phone solicitors) they promised european vacations and even mercedes benzs. My friend knew a seventeen year old...who got one.<br /><br /> Now ask yourself: what could a seventeen year old kid do...to earn a mercedes banz? Clearly...from my friends perspective...these kids were harnessed and groomed to earn income. And they did.<br /><br /> As far as the business model... apparently, this type of activity is possible wherein anyone can claim they're a school...educational facility..even religious organization... and run it without any credentialed staff. <br /><br /> My friend has to picked herself up off the floor....everytime she reads how some of these operations describes themselves. One of her favorite lines is 'we serve parents needs....we re-unite children with their parents.'<br /> But in fact their policy is to alienate children from their parents. In this way they can get more out of each. They're evil.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14707730.post-1936071542832799432012-09-11T17:46:34.127-04:002012-09-11T17:46:34.127-04:00I attended a CEDU school called Rocky Mountain Aca...I attended a CEDU school called Rocky Mountain Academy in Idaho and another "after high-school" CEDU school called Hilltop in California. Both were miserable, abusive, cult-like environments. There are a lot of facebook groups devoted to survivors of these programs. Glad you are digging into the dirt!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14707730.post-87666556960278827292009-11-04T17:57:13.138-05:002009-11-04T17:57:13.138-05:00I just want to add that Camelot now runs the Thoma...I just want to add that Camelot now runs the Thomas J. Rubino Academy in Trenton, New Jersey, which accepts students from schools districts throughout Mercer County. I hope parents will consider this article before allowing their child to be sent to TJRA.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14707730.post-90568102569073949472009-11-01T15:07:15.990-05:002009-11-01T15:07:15.990-05:00I attended a camelot day school. Really awful pro...I attended a camelot day school. Really awful program IMHO- based strongly on control and intimidation. The students, who had mental illnesses and developmental disabilities, were treated like criminals. I went to another day school and another residential school and experienced completely different athmospheres that were much more respectful and collaberative. Where the students were 'part of the team' rather than just cattle.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14707730.post-21375669914762639412009-08-02T13:16:08.833-04:002009-08-02T13:16:08.833-04:00I had worked as a teacher for The Camelot Schools...I had worked as a teacher for The Camelot Schools when it first opened back in 2004 on Bustleton Avenue. Although I was hired to be an English teacher on the girl's side, I was baited and switched into becoming the computer teacher for the boys when it was discovered that the man who had originally hired for that position had lied and was computer illiterate. Instead of appreciating that I was capable of handling the computer lab without much assistance, Pedro Segarra, who became the boy's director after Angel Colon was upgraded to the position of DIrector of Boone, began harassing me in front of the students who took seriously his efforts to get me to quit so he could get a male teacher. I was often sucker punched in the face after comments that were made by Pedro at a town house meeting in the morning about how crazy people will stick their fingers in your eye and punch you in the face. The boys took him to mean me as I have an artificial eye. ALso, they refused to filter the lab and when a student was on a chat room or looking at a pornographic website I had to physically throw myself in front of the screen and attempt to turn off the computers at which time I would be pushed, shoved, or have my hand grabbed by the students. When I cautioned another student about smoking wet cigarettes, suddenly Eric Solomon, the counselor, began telling students that I had been a druggie back in the day. The School Reform Commission was notified but chose to turn a deaf ear. The 16 children who died in Texas at Brown Schools did not die of suffocation from passive restraint. Rather, 2 or 3 250-300 pound men would often drag the students into the computer lab as it had no carpeting so they would not get rug burns on their faces and proceed to lay on top of the students thereby causing suffocation. Brien Gardner was a frequent visitor to the school with members of the reform commission. ALso, since the building used to be a senior citizen center, a new building for seniors was constructed north on Bustleton by Bock construction. Any relation to Todd Bock who also operates Camelot Schools?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com