Carolina Springs Academy Rebuttals
Slanderous Websites
March 2, 2007
Press Release By Elaine Davis
WHAT FORMER STUDENTS AND PARENTS HAVE
TO SAY - AND MORE (click
here)
DONALDS, NORTH CAROLINA - Elaine
Davis, Director of Carolina Springs Academy, a boarding school for
struggling teens, recently released a statement regarding websites
which are against the Worldwide Association of Specialty Programs
and Schools, or WWASPS.
Her Statement begins with an
introduction of herself stating her long 30 year history with youth
programs, and how problems back then were "not so complex." She goes
on to explain who the program is intended for: " Finding real
solutions to these problems can often itself be a daunting task for
parents. The children we serve are almost exclusively from families
who’s parents are not interested in sitting idly by as they watch
their children jeopardize their safety and future. These caring
parents are committed to finding an alternative that offers real
solutions to their all too real problems. Sitting back and doing
nothing, as the problems worsen, is simply not an option."
After this is when she begins to
explain about the anti-wwasps websites on the internet. "These sites
are designed to denigrate schools such as ours," Davis says. Many of
the sites often attempt to dissuade parents from taking any action
regarding the troubles their child is in. Some of them also
specifically target WWASPS Schools while they praise another
company’s.
After some extensive research,
Davis has determined that there are three (3) general types of these
sites:
1. Competitors: The site uses
misinformation and distorted facts to create confusion in an attempt
to direct the parent to a school or admission company that they
themselves control. These sites are designed to look legitimate and
are often persuasive, but lack honesty, integrity and are hiding
their conflict of interest.
2. Anti Parental Rights Advocate:
These sites are hosted and maintained by those who feel parents
should not have the right to decide the learning environment for
their children. The children should be free to do as they choose
while the parents remain legally responsible for their actions. The
same type of individuals that drive the current controversy
regarding parents rights to be notified of their own childs abortion
are often those who also foster these types of sites against us.
3. Poor personal experience:
Occasionally, the hosters of some of these negative sites are from
individuals who were in a boarding facility when they were
themselves a child, and had a bad experience. Even though they have
often not visited our school, they dislike the entire idea of a
disciplined, structured learning evnironment. Such people have
consequently transferred their own experience to all such boarding
facilities, and have made it a mission to denigrate all such
schools.
In regards to retaliation towards
these sites, Davis states that, "There is little we can do to combat
the mistruths or evils propagated by a few internet sites that seem
determined to mud sling. We refuse to legitimize them in any form.
The best defense we have against such misrepresentation is to
continue to run a quality school, and not allow the nay sayers to
destroy our attempts at helping families in need."
She Closes out her statement by
stating that children are our most precious commodity, and asks
parents to to "not allow lies, deceit and misinformation to
influence your choice."
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