Cedu Documentary Clip 10 – Run Away pt. 1
Is it possible to escape the bonds of mountaintop reform school? Students tried, and tried, and tried again…
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about 1 year ago
Thank you for posting these video clips. I’m looking forward to seeing the documentary in full. Regarding the running away, I always found it scary when people would take off. The whole campus would be on an extra close watch, lots of whispering between staff, older students were expected to keep an eye on people the staff would think might follow the runaways examples. I remember having to be an older student escort for people who had run away and following them around wherever they went, hearing their stories of what happened in those few days they were gone.
When people attempted to go down the “backside” of the mountain (in Cedu California), they would be caught in 2 to 3 days, because that is how long it took to get down the mountain. I remember hearing two people say that they would go as far and as fast as they could until it was too dark to see and then lay down to sleep and when they woke up they would have to lay there and just thaw out because their limbs felt as if they were frozen. They would also come back looking scraped up and dirty. No wonder everyone (almost) got caught. I think you would stick out like a sore thumb being a young teenager with no identification, money, etc and looking like you just got back from a wilderness trip in the middle of a city.
Good job on the documentary so far. Looking forward to seeing more. Thank you.
about 1 year ago
Great clip!!! Haven’t seen the pit and some places since I went to visit in 99. And him getting a strip search with Martin isn’t a search as much as a fit test, also what was the nickname we called those rocks anyway. I never “split” though I wanted to. I didn’t have the street smarts to really make it. I just fought the good fight.
about 10 months ago
At CEDU I think we called it the “stone couch”.
I “Split” 3 times, eventually making it down the mountain barefoot, with another girl. We didn’t want the Running Springs or Arrowhead people to recognize us as runaways, not that the plaid shirts wouldn’t have given us away! For the record, I/we didn’t see any bears. I did however end up at RMA two weeks later, only to run from there a year and a half later, after having sex and being threatened with a full time. I miss being on bans sometimes.