Hi, I love these questions, they are very good ones. I am a survivor of a cult. When the original leader died suddenly in an air plane crash. He began to become even more on a pedastal than when he was alive. they even enshrined his house, his worldly goods on display as a museum in the house he had lived in on the cult compound, and his crashed plane, they put up in at one of their schools a
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Where do I begin? Let me explain first how I got here. Last night on Heartland (FOXNews) I saw an interview wiht this Ross guy. They were talking about the wackjob in Florida that claimed to be Christ - sorta. So, I thought I'd see more on this subject at culteducation.com. First, I saw several accusations of "cult" to be wrong. At the same time, I saw more accusations th
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QuoteFaithCYears ago I looked into a private school for my son. We went to an interview with a school who used the ACE curriculum, I was mortified. The principal went on and on about how education was not their primary goal with the kids, but that they were more interested in the spiritual. He talked about all the church services, etc. He said that the kids at his school did not always test
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QuoteLaura29927Wow, talk about a blast from the past. Your guys' descriptions of what it was like to be in an ACE school match mine just the same - - and what an awful way that was to spend my grades 3 through 10. It is sad that this educational tragedy is allowed to persist through loopholes in local laws regarding education. In Maryland, where I suffered as a child under this inferio
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from **"__Religious Schools v. Childrens Rights__"** by James G. Dwyer page 16 Fundamentalist Christian Schools Christian fundamentalism is a conservative religious movement that arose early in this century among members of various Protestant denominations that were united by the aim of maintaining traditional interpretations of the Bible and what its adherents belie
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Hi, Thank you for reading that link to the news article! i am grateful that you did and that you seem to understand... sincerly Patricia A. Roloff Rebekah Cult Survivor to Overcomer 1977-78
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Hi there, i am GentleStormi, i am a survivor of the Lester Roloff Rebekah Home for Girls in Corpus Christi Texas. This and his other unlicensed homes that have branched out across the US and even across the Mexico Border...have all circulated around the use of ACE to educate. i went thru teh ACE, and i can tell you now at age 41, it is an irresponsible way to educate kids. It fails in te
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Hi, i am a Survivor of the Roloffs Rebekah Home for Girls from Corpus Christi Texas. Lester Roloff was an extreme right wing fundamentalist, that the Southern Baptist Convention kicked out. He began many juvenile facilties across the United States of America. Fighting State governments and even going to Supreme Court with his battles to keep State oversight out of his locked up facilities whe
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