Approaches To Education, Inc. Public Statement
For Immediate Release:
Former A.T.E. board member Kindra Peterson (A.K.A Kindra Partice, A.K.A. Kindra Frazier) has made unprovoked attacks and libels at Rev. John B. Brown the current president and CEO of formerly Approaches To Education, Inc. Mrs. Peterson made an unprovoked attack at Rev. Brown for the following memo:
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I just wanted to let everyone know that Wally Shiel is not longer a counselor with Ex-JWs of AZ or any program in Approaches To Education, Inc.?
This was all that was said. Ex-Jehovah?s Witnesses of Arizona is a support group for people that have issues with this strict, authoritarian religion. Mrs. Peterson responded Mr. Brown by resigning for reasons that ?are very clear to everyone.? Mr. Shiel was terminated for making bigoted remarks to support members like ?the reason why you forgot about Easter is because you are not Christian?I cannot believe that you left Christianity,? and for encouraging support group member to only advertise only at Christian churches.
Mr. Shiel is an Evangelical Christian that believes everybody who is not a Christian is flawed, and that people must be saved only by Jesus in order to live. Mr. Shiel also believes in the scientifically un-credible ?Brainwashing Theory and that belief that groups he labels as ?cults? use extensive forms of phobias and triggers to control people. Mr. Shiel does not have the expertise to realize that cult groups use normal everyday forms of persuasion and social influence, and that these alleged phobias and triggers that cult members develop are better explained by Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Acute Stress Disorder, and Adjustment Disorders
About a month later Mrs. Peterson launched another assault at Mr. Brown making inequitable remarks like ?
John you told me you were not a Rev. and that you were Buddhist and part Wiccan, so please enlighten us as to who you really are.? Rev. Brown is a Reverend, has studied Buddhism and researched Wicca. Mrs. Peterson also said, People need to know the WHOLE story.? Mrs. Peterson is referring to the issue with Mr. Shiel, of which she is only a third party, not a witness to anything between Mr. Shiel and Approaches To Education. She does not know the whole story, and Mr. Shiel has been silent about the issue.
Mr. Peterson has committed libel by saying ?the group disbanded because it was a unanimous decision that having it at a person?s house was uncomfortable and the host was practicing things that weren't conducive to a SAFE support group.? The support group is not disbanded.
Mrs. Peterson has what is commonly called Multiple Personality Disorder, and it is believed that she constantly exaggerates events in her favor.
Mrs. Peterson also is using the Ex-Jehovah?s Witnesses of Arizona with out this programs permission. Mrs. Peterson refuses to stop using this name. In our opinion Mrs. Peterson is nothing but sick, middle-aged pathological liar whose only benefit to society is to leave it alone.
