I shall tell you I was at Freedom Village, which is a "Christian boarding school" in Lakemont New York from about March 2008 till May 2010 when I graduated.
The girls dorm was filthy even after we "cleaned it." We had to wear flip-flops or slippers in the girls' dorm to keep from getting foot fungus. We also got lice and ringworm regularly. The ringworm was from the shower curtains not being cleaned or changed out for fresh ones regularly enough. I knew one girl who had gotten five ringworms all up the side of her body from the filthy showers. This girl was very hygenic so it was quite the disturbance to all of us.
The schoolroom was so cold in the winter we had to wear our heavy jackets to keep warm all through the schoolday. The chapel and the new admin were the only places on campus that were air-conditioned or heated. The guys and girls dorms were freezing in winter and hot as Hell in summer.
Punishment was waking up at 5am to haul wood till breakfast, go to school, and then haul wood from after school till dinner, and then from dinner till 10 at night. We were also given much smaller portions of food than the other students when punished. In the summer, except for meals and chores, if you got into trouble you just hauled wood all day, period. Sunup to sundown. We were not allowed to talk about anything pertaining to the outside world as that was considered "evil." We couldn't even sing CHRISTIAN songs unless they were composed and sung by the boarding school's own singing groups themselves.
The kitchen had a really bad cockroach problem and these things were HUGE, not even kidding, and when we flicked on the lights to begin kitchen duty in the morning they scattered. It was like watching a huge black blanket on the floor just curl back towards the walls and under all the countertops and applicances. I was kitchen intern for a year there and so I would know...I was basically second in command when it came to the kitchen. Mama Neu was nice to me and I enjoyed my duties aside from the fact that there were roaches and I didn't get paid.
The staff people were often students who went through the program themselves and chose to stay, and they often didn't get paid because Pastor would keep the money for himself instead. It was a cult, definently, because everyone there was pretty much kept "hush-hush or else" and so they all seemed smiley and happy and convinced of what they were doing. Pastor was anti-homosexuality, anti-interracial marriage, anti-pro choice, ect.
Each day we woke up and after woodhauling (if you had to) we went to breakfast and then a chapel service. Then we would go to school, or if it was summertime you would do chores. Lunchtime was somewhere in there and then it was back to class followed by chores till dinner or if it was summer it was just chores till dinner. Then after dinner we would have a chapel service and then have "devotions" back at the dorm and then go to bed or haul wood till 10.
Some of the staff people were genuinely nice and you could tell they really had gotten sucked into the cult and into thinking what they are doing is right. Then others were power-craving asshats who were very cruel and would invent ways to get us in trouble. I have read many other people's negative testimonies and I have heard that recently most of the staff have left because Pastor had an affair behind his wife's back. I will post things other people have said about FV who have been there in following posts.
Sources:
- The original post on Thoughts.com
- Factsheet about the facility (Fornits Wiki)
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