Talk:New Leaf Academy

message: The intro to this article appears to be written by a biased party, potentially an ex-student of the institution. The article's introduction is poorly written and full of grammatical and person errors. I will undertake some copyediting but have flagged the article. New Leaf Academy does still have a website in operation as of 2020. 
There are anecdotal stories located at this tumblr page and around the web that echo sentiments of abuse discussed both in the article body and in this talk page. 
Certainly, there is story of some kind here that deserves to be chronicled, but it needs to be chronicled by a journalist or news outlet, not a Wikipedia editor. There is a severe drought of reputable sources that relate to New Leaf and much of the content on the web is anecdotal or is advertising material by the institution itself. 
I'm not sure what to do here so I'll just correct some errors as best as I can and tag the article for review. 
I was shocked by the low quality of this article. 
2601:18B:8300:D6C0:80C1:9D4D:3594:3801 (talk) 04:42, 10 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  This Article Has Many Problems 

message: Accretitation:
If you backtrace from the New Leaf Page Northwest_Association_of_Schools_and_Colleges, you can see that they were split in 2004 in two organisations - the other one is Northwest_Association_of_Accredited_Schools.
From this page I quote:
Neither the United States Department of Education nor the Council for Higher Education Accreditation recognizes the Northwest Association of Accredited Schools as an accrediting agency for institutions of higher education. The Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities is the recognized regional accreditation agency for post-secondary institutions in the seven-state region served by the Northwest Association of Accredited Schools.
The lack of real accreditation is exact why a very well-reputated school - Academy_at_Ivy_Ridge had to pay a fine.
This is not a page, I have created. You can not claim that it is something I have invented. It is the real thing.
Isolation:
If they can not get visits from relatives and friends after schooltime, are they not isolated? 
Forum:
It is the forum I was told to refer to, when I some months back was offered a job I turned down. I have children of my own and I was told by our authorities to look to this forum for advise of boarding schools because some of them "could harm the children", as they told me.
A lot of Danes work in the States. Some - very few in fact - of them choose to bring their children along. Of course we have some one from our authorities who have specialized in what to do, when it comes to education.
Covergaard 10:06, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Then explain this 

message: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Erikson#Critique_of_Erikson
The source is wikipedia itself and I have not written anything about this person.
Covergaard 11:37, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: (a) Wikipedia is not a source for itself, (b) there's no criticism there. – Steel 11:40, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  No source ?? 

message: *Secret prisons for teens about New Leaf Academy
*Fornits wiki about New Leaf Academy
Covergaard 18:28, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It should be noted that the New Leaf Academy in Oregan is run by a former CEDU employee, Marci Padgett. In 2005, for financial reasons, the CEDU schools were shut down and subsequent statements and a documentary by a former student have brought allegations of abusive behaviour to the forefront. Many of the therapuetic methods used by these types of schools are questionable at best, and abusive at the worst. Students in these types of schools are often expected to reveal intimate details about their pasts as a method to "deal" with their issues. It would benefit any parents that are considering this type of "treatment program" to research the CEDU schools and to review the documentary "Surviving CEDU", by Liam Scheff, before making a final decision. It can be viewed at the following website: http://liamscheff.com/daily/cedu-documentary/
--Orlady (talk) 19:26, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  additional sources for information