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Rocky Mountain Academy
Address
Map
139 Success Ln,

Bonners Ferry
,
Boundary County
,
Idaho
83805

United States
Coordinates48°37′40.57″N 116°24′32.58″W / 48.6279361°N 116.4090500°W / 48.6279361; -116.4090500
Information
School typePrivate
Opened1982[1]
FounderMerle Wasserman
Closed14 February 2005 (2005-02-14)[2]
CategoryTherapeutic boarding school
PresidentMerle Wasserman[5]
Staff20
Age14 to 18
Enrollment140 (1990)
Average class size6 to 14
LanguageEnglish
Hours in school day15
AccreditationNorthwest Association of Schools and Colleges[3]
NewspaperRocky Mountain Times
AffiliationNational Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs[4]

Rocky Mountain Academy was a therapeutic boarding school that provided services for troubled teenagers in the U.S. state of Idaho. It opened in 1982 and was one of several therapeutic schools run by Cedu Educational Services, which was headquartered in California. Merle Wasserman served as the President of the school, while Daniel Earle was the Secretary, according to Idaho government records.[5] It was the second school of Cedu Educational Services.[6] Students enrolled at rocky mountain academy would go through nine therapy workshops, each one workshop lasted twenty-four hours.[7]

History edit

Rocky Mountain Academy opened in 1982 at 378 Emerson Lane near the town of Bonners Ferry in Idaho, close to the Canadian border.[8]

In July 1994, a 16-year-old committed suicide by using a belt and pipe for the overhead sprinkler system.[9]

In September 1994, the Associated Press released information on that was a kidnap plot, in 1986 there had been a plot by two individuals to kidnap teenagers from the school.[10]

In 1998, CEDU Educational services was sold to The Brown Schools Incorporated very little information about the changes by The Brown Schools[11]

In 2000, the Times-News newspaper mentioned that one of the teenagers who ran away from Redcliff Ascent, a wilderness program in Utah was being sent to Rocky Mountain Academy.[12]

On October 9, 2003, a bomb threat was called into the school kitchen phone and the school was evacuated whilst the Spokane County Sheriff's office carried out a search.[13]

In 2004, Rocky Mountain Academy moved to a new location nearby 139 Success Lane, this move was due to low enrollment at the school. Also in that year, a former consular of rocky mountain academy, James Johnston, tried to run for office the sheriff of Bonner County.[14]

On February 12, 2005, The Spokesman review published the article "Rocky Mountain Academy to close." The article detailed how the school was to close on the coming Monday.[2]

In March 2005, the Brown schools filed for bankruptcy[15]

On January 18, 2022, This Will Be Funny Later, a memoir by Roseanne Barr's daughter Jenny Pentland, is published. In it, she describes the time she spent at Rocky Mountain Academy, Boulder Creek Academy, and Ascent, along with several other troubled teen programs.[16]

Governance edit

Licensed by the Idaho State Department of Health and Welfare[17]

Accredited by the Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges[18]

Affiliation with National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs[19]

School structure edit

  • The home-school contact policy was that the only person you were allowed contact with at home was parents.
  • Last Light was a school wide meeting held a daily at night.[20]
  • Peer Group was the group of students you would be graduating with.
  • Enrollment was 365 days per year. There was no spring break or Summer vacation.[21][22] Students in June 1983 tried to run away after learning that there would be no Summer Vacation for them.[23]
  • Class size ranged between 6 and 14 students.

Admissions edit

The student profile for Rocky mountain academy target demographic was high-risk teenagers, the Cedu schools would get referrals from educational consultants. It is also known that Rocky Mountain Academy was using teen escort services.[24]

Curriculum edit

  • Rocky Mountain Academy therapy program took 30 to 32 months to complete
  • Students would gain 10 academic credits per year

Extracurricular activities edit

Challenge Expedition

Quest Expedition was a three night group expedition involving

  • canoeing,
  • camping,
  • rock climbing and rappelling

Campus edit

The campus was built by the first group of students who were called the pioneers and maintained my later students

  • Denali
  • the farm[25]
  • Garden house was one of the three dormitory buildings on campus.
  • The house was the main building for Rocky Mountain Academy
  • Kootenai Lodge
  • La Mancha was one of the three dormitory buildings on campus.
  • Share Shack, one of the three dormitory buildings on campus.
  • Skinner (education building)
  • Stellar Annex, Walden (remote building for propheets)
  • the wood corral

Notable alumni edit

  • Val Broeksmit - Whistle Blower on Deutsche Bank attended Rocky Mountain Academy[26]

Notable staff edit

Former headteachers edit

  • Dan Earle 1982 to ????[27]
  • Doug Kim-Brown 1998 to 1993[28][29]
  • Michael Naylor 1993[30]

Books edit

  • Chicken soup for the parents soul : stories of loving, learning, and parenting[31]
  • Dead, Insane, or in Jail: A CEDU Memoir
  • Dead, Insane, or in Jail: Overwritten
  • Help at any cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids[32]
  • The Discarded Ones: A Novel Based on a True Story[33]
  • This will be funny later: A memoir[34]

References edit

  1. ^ Caring for kids with special needs : residential programs for children and adolescents. Peterson's Guides. 1992. p. 452. ISBN 9781560791683.
  2. ^ a b "Rocky Mountain Academy to close | The Spokesman-Review". www.spokesman.com. Retrieved May 18, 2022.
  3. ^ Caring for kids with special needs : residential programs for children and adolescents. Princeton, N.J. : Peterson's Guides. 1992. p. 452. ISBN 9781560791683. Retrieved January 10, 2023.
  4. ^ "Program Details". January 2, 2004. Archived from the original on January 2, 2004. Retrieved January 10, 2023.
  5. ^ a b https://sosbiz.idaho.gov/api/report/GetImageByNum/050235124151231138181020131026101190204086156225
  6. ^ "CEDU Emotional Growth Middle School - The Original Alternative Education for Troubled Teens -- Private Boarding School in California". September 26, 2002. Archived from the original on September 26, 2002. Retrieved May 18, 2022.
  7. ^ "School & Program Visit Report, 4/1993 - Rocky Mountain Academy". strugglingteens.com. Retrieved February 18, 2023.
  8. ^ "When Rich Kids Go Bad". Forbes.
  9. ^ "The Spokesman-Review - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. ISSN 2993-1274. OCLC 11102529. Retrieved May 11, 2023.
  10. ^ "1986 kidnap revealed". The Register-Guard. Gannett. July 28, 1994. ISSN 0739-8557. OCLC 45194164. Retrieved September 14, 2022.
  11. ^ Sink, Matha (May 2005). "How Brown Sank to Red". Youth today. Archived from the original on September 14, 2022. Retrieved September 14, 2022.
  12. ^ "Runaway teens will face fines". Times-News. January 13, 2000. OCLC 12292697. Retrieved September 19, 2022.
  13. ^ "RMA bomb scare a hoax, students allowed to return". December 10, 2003. Archived from the original on December 10, 2003. Retrieved February 16, 2023.
  14. ^ Taylor, Kevin (October 26, 2004). "Sheriff's races". The Spokesman-Review. Retrieved January 2, 2023.
  15. ^ Brodwater, Taryn (August 9, 2005). "Closed behavioral schools to be auctioned". The Spokesman Review. ISSN 2993-1274. OCLC 11102529. Retrieved September 14, 2022. The Boundary County schools, along with others in California and Vermont, will be sold as part of a bankruptcy auction. CEDU Educational Services and its parent company, The Brown Schools Inc., filed for bankruptcy in March.
  16. ^ Pentland, Jenny (January 18, 2022). This Will Be Funny Later: A Memoir. HarperCollins Publishers.
  17. ^ "PRIVATE-SCHOOL ISSUE REKINDLES HOME-EDUCATORS' FEARS". Deseret News. February 18, 1990. Retrieved January 2, 2023.
  18. ^ Caring for kids with special needs : residential treatment programs for children and adolescents. Inc Peterson's Guides. Princeton, N.J.: Peterson's Guides. 1993. ISBN 978-1-56079-168-3. OCLC 26809989.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  19. ^ "program details". NATSAP. August 18, 2004. Archived from the original on August 18, 2004. Retrieved January 2, 2022.
  20. ^ "Daily Schedule" (PDF). Rocky Mountain Academy. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 2, 2003.
  21. ^ "Rocky Mountain Academy: Professional Relations". Archived from the original on April 4, 2004.
  22. ^ Berman, Davis (1994). Wilderness Therapy: Foundations, Theory and Research. Kendall Hunt Publishing. p. 94. ISBN 9780840390608.
  23. ^ "Article clipped from Spokane Chronicle". Spokane Chronicle. December 27, 1983. p. 7. Retrieved May 4, 2023.
  24. ^ Caring for kids with special needs : residential treatment programs for children and adolescents. Inc Peterson's Guides. Princeton, N.J.: Peterson's Guides. 1993. p. 298. ISBN 978-1-56079-168-3. OCLC 26809989.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  25. ^ Kane, Pearl Rock (1992). Independent schools, independent thinkers. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. p. 32. ISBN 9781555423988.
  26. ^ Roberts, Sam (May 13, 2022). "Val Broeksmit, 46, Who Blew the Whistle on Deutsche Bank, Dies". The New York Times. ISSN 1553-8095. OCLC 1645522. Retrieved September 15, 2022.
  27. ^ "News & Views 5/2002 - Tribute To Mel Wasserman". strugglingteens.com. OCLC 49236984. Retrieved February 18, 2023.
  28. ^ "News & Views, 6/1993 - Echo Springs - A Center for Transition Study". strugglingteens.com. OCLC 49236984. Retrieved February 18, 2023.
  29. ^ Caring for kids with special needs : residential programs for children and adolescents. Peterson's Guides. 1992. p. 452. ISBN 9781560791683. OCLC 26809989.
  30. ^ Peterson's guide to private secondary schools, 1994-95 (15th ed.). Princeton, N.J.: Peterson's Guides. 1994. p. 1250. ISBN 1-56079-332-5. OCLC 30082931.
  31. ^ Canfield, Jack; et al. (2000). Chicken soup for the parents soul : stories of loving, learning, and parenting. Deerfield Beach, Fla.: Health Communications. ISBN 1-55874-748-6. OCLC 44089266.
  32. ^ Szalavitz, Maia (2020). Help at any cost : how the troubled-teen industry cons parents and hurts kids. New York. ISBN 979-8-6629-2277-8. OCLC 1286080685.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  33. ^ Tipper, James (2012). The discarded ones : a novel based on a true story. Los Angeles, Calif.: Waxlight Press. ISBN 978-0-9882433-0-9. OCLC 820968363.
  34. ^ Pentland, Jenny (January 18, 2022). This will be funny later : a memoir (1st ed.). New York, NY: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-296292-8. OCLC 1247057417.

External links edit

Category:1982 establishments in Idaho Category:Therapeutic boarding schools in the United States Category:Defunct schools in Idaho Category:2005 disestablishments in Idaho Category:Group psychotherapy Category:Private high schools in Idaho

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