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Taking a group of elementary aged students to a funeral home is UBER-sick. I was creeped out over it for awhile. But I guess the pastor justified it in his mind teaching to kids the concept of death....
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I remember something else that was a little strange. Starting out, the ACE school at my church was almost like a cult within the church. From all outward appearences, the church seemed like any normal...
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Well, one thing that bothered me was one time me and another female student were physically attacked for no reason by a male student. I was severely punched in the head and my head hurt for days. I...
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I don't remember if this was the exact film we were shown but the film we were shown was something like this. This is part 1 of 7. After we were shown the film on a Sunday night church service, we were...
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I was deeply saddened as I read through these posts about the A.C.E school system. I personally just recently graduated from an A.C.E school with Honours. In regards to the complaints about the system,...
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ACE is also being used by homeschoolers. Personally, I have no strong feelings for or against the program. I attended two different Christian Schools that used ACE-in the 70's it was the only...
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Of course many have mentioned that ACE has been helpful as a supplement to a standard education. In a situation where ACE is the only curriculum, it can be destructive. Not only will it provide a poor...
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I went to an ACE school from 75-79. It was an upstart school from the church that my family attended for 16 years. My father was one of the Pastors and even though my sister did not attend the school,...
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ACE school from 75-79. Brings back so many memories.
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I thought this was somewhat interesting. I found a little similarity between ACE and Scientology. Open a different tab or window in your browser. Of course you knew that. Or maybe you couldn't figure...
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Accelerated Christian Education has done a great job in providing an alternative to public education systems... Take a look at how the American Public Education System has done in regards to educating...
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Thank you for your knowledge on this matter. Is there a study on the graduation rate at ACE schools? What percentage of graduates go to college? What percentage receive college degrees? How do these...
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Where I came from, of those who stuck to the system, 94% graduated... Of those graduates... 72% chose to go on to higher learning and proceeded to get a degree, and of those, 15% topped their...
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Yes I agree, most of the people I know that went to ACE schools either dropped out and got a GED, graduated from there but never went to college or only did a a couple of semesters of college. The...
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That part about the preacher saying you should not be involved in community activities is hilarious. religious nut trying to spread his insanity onto others...gotta love it. it's quite disturbing how...
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Scientology; the more money and time you give to them, the higher you move up in level. Pentecostal church I grew up in; The more money and time you give to them, the higher you move up in level....
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I was thinking back on when I was about 11. It was YEAR SIX in an ACE school. I wanted to learn things. I wanted to really badly. ACE had other plans. ACE makes students do the jobs the teachers should...
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databass - I agree wholeheartedly. Reading through this thread, I'm amazed at how many people were damaged by these schools. My school was "supposedly" non-denominational, as I'm sure most of them are,...
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Funny you should menion lying, SPG900. That was one way I learned to skirt an impossible system. In YEAR NINE I was assigned "Fox's Book of Martyrs" for English Literature. I had to read this book and...
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Interesting thread. Didn't you have the rule 'Griping is not tolerated'? I think it must have been part of the training from ACE, seems to be in place at lots of ACE shools, and it certainly was at the...
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I was talking with someone about this the other day -- the whole "control" thing. I don't remember anything about not griping, but it was VERY clear that questioning anything was not to be tolerated....
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You are right about the control not discipline bit. And when I think back I think how cleverly designed it was to make sure we were 'compliant'. If some stupidly minor rule was broken the supervisor...
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I went to a church school from K5-12th that was run by the church my parents attended and they did A.C.E. for a while. The church was a strange mish mash of Christian fundamentalism and spirit-filled...
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I had nine years of this shit. It still affects me today. I found a safe place I could talk to people about my experiences in a 12-step program known as ACA (Adult Children of Alcoholics.) It's given...
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I suffered 4 years under this extremely poorly written experimental American system. I don't have friends or good memory from this. I barely survived and at least 4 years of ACE taught me to never...
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My name is Benjamin, and I have been a student of this ACE from grades 1-9, and 10-11 during the period 1980-1984 in Vancouver BC, at the Temple Academy. My cultural background is Taiwanese, but we...
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[quote LFCS79]Thank you for your knowledge on this matter. Is there a study on the graduation rate at ACE schools? What percentage of graduates go to college? What percentage receive college degrees?...
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Hi everyone, I am an ACE alumnus, and I want to do something about the abuse that goes on there. My own story is similar to those here. I went to a school where theere was ruthless discipline, a lot of...
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Hmmmm, Accerated Christian Education, a.k.a. ACE, first off let me say, it's a joke, I attended an Accelerated Christian Education based school, Rothesay Baptist Christian School as it was known back...
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Pudge Meekway's attitude has really gone south. See attached...
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