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Warning about Hyde School from an educational consultant
Anonymous:
How fragile do you assume these kids are? If you have a kid who can be destroyed by feedback in a highly critical environment, then no, Hyde is not Senstitivity-R-Us. But the average kid would be fine in that environment. I agree with what another alum said-- get out the crazies who need a bubble-boy environment and Hyde wouldn't be such a bad place. Currently, it takes too many licenses in the admissions department and may not be a great spot for a sensitive kid. However, I still think we're being a bit melodramatic here. "Quite damaging?" "The risk is simply too great?" It seems a bit of a stretch if you are talking about the average kid.
Definitely consider somewhere else if you're looking for a therapy school because there's not enough milk and cookies. I have vague memories of kids who found it acceptable to suck the pressuring agent out of whipped cream to get high. (That's a little scary as a spectator kid, and maybe they need real help.) You should consider somewhere else if looking for a normal school because it is a tabloid-level melodramatic place. However, I would not consider it harmful, and I've certainly met plenty of people who could testify to a positive experience. But it is funny-- no one seems to have a neutral reaction. Not sure what that means. I do remember Joe Gauld asking the alums for feedback recently. If anyone needs to get their two cents to the man, that's probably a good idea.
Lars:
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Anonymous:
Lars, I couldnt agree more good buddy :tup:
Anonymous:
--- Quote ---On 2005-12-07 14:54:00, Anonymous wrote:
"How fragile do you assume these kids are? If you have a kid who can be destroyed by feedback in a highly critical environment, then no, Hyde is not Senstitivity-R-Us. But the average kid would be fine in that environment. I agree with what another alum said-- get out the crazies who need a bubble-boy environment and Hyde wouldn't be such a bad place. Currently, it takes too many licenses in the admissions department and may not be a great spot for a sensitive kid. However, I still think we're being a bit melodramatic here. "Quite damaging?" "The risk is simply too great?" It seems a bit of a stretch if you are talking about the average kid.
Definitely consider somewhere else if you're looking for a therapy school because there's not enough milk and cookies. I have vague memories of kids who found it acceptable to suck the pressuring agent out of whipped cream to get high. (That's a little scary as a spectator kid, and maybe they need real help.) You should consider somewhere else if looking for a normal school because it is a tabloid-level melodramatic place. However, I would not consider it harmful, and I've certainly met plenty of people who could testify to a positive experience. But it is funny-- no one seems to have a neutral reaction. Not sure what that means. I do remember Joe Gauld asking the alums for feedback recently. If anyone needs to get their two cents to the man, that's probably a good idea."
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You say the "average" kid would do fine at Hyde. Perhaps so, depending on what you mean by average. However, I encourage you to read Hyde's current promotional material, in which it says, explicitly, that about 70 percent of the kids who enroll at Hyde are "turnaround" kids who've had major behavioral and/or academic struggles and many of these have what the Hyde brochure refers to as an "alphabet soup of diagnoses." That's hardly what I'd call average. Maybe the other 30 percent fit your characterization. If that's the case, Hyde should shrink in size dramatically.
Anonymous:
Well, I'm glad your life is good now. But did you really think that what I wrote was such a rave review? I didn't think it was that positive. Just because I wasn't ready to burn the place down... I guess I just don't give high school that much credit as a make-or-break point in life. I'm sorry that you were traumatized. Maybe I don't understand. What was so bad again? Really, I see why someone might not want to go there, but how is it so bad that you would recommend cutting off admission?
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