Draft:Rocky Mountain Academy

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. It was the second school of Cedu Educational Services. Students enrolled at rocky mountain academy would go through nine therapy workshops, each one workshop lasted twenty-four hours.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

In March 2005, the Brown schools filed for bankruptcy

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.

Governance
Licensed by the Idaho State Department of Health and Welfare

Accredited by the Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges

Affiliation with National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs

School structure

 * 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.
 * 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. Students in June 1983 tried to run away after learning that there would be no Summer Vacation for them.
 * Class size ranged between 6 and 14 students.

Admissions
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.

Curriculum

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

Extracurricular activities
Challenge Expedition

Quest Expedition was a three night group expedition involving


 * canoeing,
 * camping,
 * rock climbing and rappelling

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

 * Val Broeksmit - Whistle Blower on Deutsche Bank attended Rocky Mountain Academy

Notable staff

 * Founder - Mel Wasserman

Former headteachers

 * Dan Earle 1982 to ????
 * Doug Kim-Brown 1998 to 1993
 * Michael Naylor 1993

Books

 * Chicken soup for the parents soul : stories of loving, learning, and parenting
 * 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
 * The Discarded Ones: A Novel Based on a True Story
 * This will be funny later: A memoir