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Posted By: The Tim <tim@thetimtimes.com> In Response To: Warning, possible shill alert... (The Roadie)
Thursday, 3 March 2005, at 12:31 p.m.
I know you checked enough of the posts regarding this company (I did myself a few weeks ago when it first hit the FIB radar)to notice the 'pattern' of supposed parental support from the 'relentless attacks of scambuster web postings'. They're shilling techniques, while somewhat more sophisticated than many, are still pretty transparent if you take a little time to google. Good post. Ever diligent.
Enjoy.
> Sure, we even allow shills, sock puppets, and stealth supporters to stand
> on the soapbox. But they get examined very carefully. Are you ready?
> They had better be.
> Ummmm, but you left out one important fact. In the spirit of full
> disclosure, let's see what you wrote last summer:
> "Jean Weatherford Jul 6 2004, 7:01 am
> Newsgroups: alt.education.alternative
> From: jeanweatherf...@yahoo.com (Jean Weatherford)
> Date: 6 Jul 2004 07:01:04 -0700
> Subject: Linda Christas: Advisor Support Response
> As a relatively new Advisor, I certainly don't have the full picture,
> but I wanted to add my opinion to the bunch.
> I was one of those people who really had to just try the Academic
> Advisory position on a transition basis, really not risking anything
> other than my sweat (enthusiasm).
> I kept my job as a computer programmer while taking the Advisory
> course and throughout the field practice.
> That took a lot of the pressure off for me. The School never put any
> pressure on me. But, I am the kind of person who worries.
> Linda Christas, I think, has struck just the right balance between
> lack of support and smothering support.
> They did and are doing everything I have asked to help me get the
> people in my community awake to the educational needs of our kids.
> I have only been holding Linda Christas interviews for about four
> months, but already I am more successful as an Advisor (financially
> and emotionally) than I ever was in my eighteen years as a programmer.
> When all is said though, I suppose everything depends on how paralyzed
> someone is when she realizes that in this Country business owners both
> reap the most rewards and, at the same time, don't have a desk to sit
> at that someone else has chosen.
> But, I like it a lot. I have time for my kids..... for my life
> really.....for the first time as an adult.
> I have a soft spot in my heart for Otto Benchley who wrote a review on
> this site.
> He has always been straight with me, and very kind.
> And, he has made sure that every support allowed by the law for me as
> an independent has been provided by Linda Christas.
> As a result, I don't ever expect to do anything else in terms of
> career.
> Thanks from me and my family, Otto.
> Jean Weatherford, Academic Advisor "
> So, Jean - you're one of their "Advisors" and you hold Linda
> Christas interviews? What is it exactly that "Holding an
> interview" pays you for that's better than being a programmer? Does
> that money come from hopeful teacher-applicants?
> What ratio of applicants ever make it into full-time employment as
> teachers?
> Why did you try to make us think your involvement with the school was as a
> parent and member of their PTA, and not as a contractor/agent/or employee?
> Why could you not feel it was a good thing to be straight with us?
> Is it any coincidence you're posting from the Sacramento area, which is
> where Linda Christas HQ is located?
> Yeah, send me a free chair and I'd take it, too. Costs less than shipping
> it back. :-)
> Great. I'm sincerely happy your own child is doing well. You might have
> succeeded at home schooling also, but that doesn't involve an income
> better than being a programmer.
> Let the ad hominem attacks begin, along with the motivational
> examinations. But it goes both ways, Jean.
> And your cut of that would be, how much?
> And you're making more than you ever were in your eighteen years as a
> programmer, and you don't ever expect to do anything else in terms of
> career. We get it now. Carry on.
Sensibility Without The Static
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