Counselors at SageWalk Did Jada a disservice.
Originally uploaded by Tug. I'll admit, I got hooked on ABC's "Brat Camp" from the first moment I saw the first trailer. I watched all the episodes with my wife and really began to root for the kids. Save one. Yep, Jada. Another brick in the wall of a long line of reality show bad girls, Jada was simply a joy to watch. Now, it's easy to call me crass and unfeeling, she is after all, a 15-year old child, but I cannot feel sorry for her.
She continually bad mouthed the people who were trying to help her. She continually made fun of her fellow SageWalkers. And, worst of all, she looked into the camera during one of her interviews and told the world that her parents are "such suckers." Ha ha, you little bitch. You can rot out there in the Oregon desert for all I care. (I can't figure out why SageWalk didn't show her parents that clip when Jada was begging to come home. That might have sealed her fate.) And thought I hate to say it, I think this girl might be a total loss. I mean, she never even realized why she was there, she never tried to be a part of the group, hell, she never even stopped lying.
And frankly, when they counselors decided to graduate her at the end of the program, they did her a huge disservice. She simply wasn't ready. I'll tell you, they should have kept her out there for antother 60, 120, 180 days. Maybe, just maybe, she would have finally reailzed her parents were serious about her getting better.
Except, unfortunately, they weren't serious. During her time at SageWalk, they continually called and cried and begged and pleaded with the counselors that Jada was "dying out there." (She wasn't.) And that's the crime of the whole thing. Her parents are absolute idiots. She's been playing them for years, and continues to do so, and it's not really her fault. It's theirs.
And after all this they, incredibly, continue to believe every single lie she tells. It's a shame. Almost as big a shame as the post mortem at the end of the show. It stated that soon after she got home, Jada got into some trouble for nearly killing a family with a runaway boat she was driving. Apparently, she had refused to go to boarding school. Wait a minute. Refused? Let me ask her moron parents this simple question: Who's the boss of Jada? From my six-week, highly edited look into her life, it appears that Jada is the boss. And what a lousy boss she is. She's actually the kind of boss that's gonna either allow herself to kill someone else, or kill herself. Seriously.
P.S. I'm gonna pitch a show to ABC called "Idiot Parent Bustdown" where parenting experts send some shitass parents through a bootcamp that teaches them how to raise decent, productive kids. Hey Jada's parents - you oughta sign up.
P.P.S. I know all about the power of editing but don't believe for a second that Jada's exploits out there were created in the Avid Suite. You can't cut together footage you don't have. It's as simple as that.