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Hey! This is about Asheville Academy for Girls. I took this job because I didn’t know what the troubled teen industry was and didn’t understand what these kids are being exposed to in these places. I recently found this sub and wanted to post something because I don’t want parents who tour this hell hole to get snowed by the higher ups who tell them it’s so great. They even manipulate these really young students to participate on the parent and EC tours so it looks as though everything is great and these kids are making progress. They aren’t, they are traumatized and homesick and “fawning” as a trauma response because the higher ups and the therapists play favorites and threaten them with convincing their parents they should stay longer or that they are not “finished with their program yet”. I also wanted to say that there apparently are some pretty serious changes happening at AAG because finances with the parent company are real messed up and there are like a bunch of lawsuits at one of their programs in Utah and the program where the students died here in NC (Trails Carolina). AAG has like a sister school in a different area about an hour away that used to be called Solstice East. They changed the name of that program to Magnolia Mill School. I have a friend who works there and they are on the brink of closing because they only have 5 kids. There are currently 18 kids but some graduations coming up. I heard this from a therapist that we are going to be merging both schools together which is really fucked up because these students at Asheville Academy for Girls are really pretty innocent. The students at Magnolia Mill School have a lot more acting out behaviors (like self harm and fighting). The executive director at Asheville Academy is also quitting. Sounds like there are therapists who are pissed too and may choose to leave or get layed off. Anyways a bunch of staff already know but I doubt they are going to be honest with these kids parents or their educational consultants. It’s not appropriate for these two ages groups to be squeezed together because these schools are going broke. It’s bad and I’m thankful not having this on my conscience.

All this has been confirmed by multiple sources.