Bobby


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Posted by Eric Johnson (206.138.216.43) on February 13, 2002 at 15:15:37:

In Reply to: Mr. Brown, I think I can answer your question now. posted by Ginger Warbis on March 14, 2000 at 09:58:48:

: Mr. Brown was an enthusiastic music teacher; knowledgeable and talented in his craft and well blessed with the ability for and love of teaching. Like the rest of the faculty of West Florida Christian School, he was vaguely aware that a few students were clients of an unconventional adolescent drug rehab in Sarasota. But, aside from accommodating occasional absences due to program Staff directives, signing permission slips for field trips and athletic events and helping us to catch up on missed studies, I don't think they really had any clear idea what The Program was all about. Clients and parents were sworn to secrecy about it.

: I have always loved to read and study. So, when I reached third phase and was able to attend school, I made the most of it. I was a good student in most subjects, earnest in all and an eager participant in the school's band, choir and drama programs. So my teachers and fellow students were surprised, to say the least, when one day I and three other students, unaware of each other's plans, suddenly flew the coop.

: The second and final time I ran away from Straight Inc., was in October of `82; just before my 18th birthday and just under 2 years after first becoming a client. After I legally came of age, I returned to Sarasota from my brother's home near Atlanta to try and work things out with my parents and to talk to my former teachers and friends; to try and explain my recent behavior and the reasons behind my decisions.

: I specifically remember a conversation with Mr. Brown. He was very disappointed in me. He just couldn't understand how I could have been so selfish as to default on my responsibilities to the school and, specifically, the rest of the band just before the holiday concert season.

: In the final weeks of my involvement with Straight Inc., there was a lot of tension within the group. As a group member, I was not privy to any of the external conflicts that were going on between Staff and HRS investigators (et al). But I knew that a lot of people had left and suspected that many of them had been removed from the program by their parents. Staff was always in a foul mood, often interrupting raps to announce revocation of privileges for individuals or whole phases, 4th phase days off and permissions were revoked at one point, I believe, and a lot of people were unexpectedly started over or otherwise punished. We weren't getting straight enough fast enough for Staff's liking so the entire group was being sanctioned by degrees.
I'm looking for a guy named Bobby . He would be about 40 now. He was from Oklahoma City. Any idea if this is the same one?

Thanks, Eric Johnson


: I think I started vaguely making plans when I began to realize that even us 5th phasers might loose the degree of freedom necessary for a successful escape. And I was beginning to suspect that none of us would be allowed to 7th step any time soon. But the one incident that gave me the impetus to act was what happened to Bobby .

: Bobby was a 14 year old boy, growing fast. I'd stayed in the ' home as a foster sister to to be in the program. And that was the one unforgivable sin.




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