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Hyde School, The Most Truthful Informative Post I have Seen
Anonymous:
Yeah, he left a year after I was there. The school was hush, hush about it, but a faculty member told me he was finally forced to resign. It wasn't until one of the girls finally sued the school that they got rid of him for good. This guy was a total pervert who gave all of us the creeps. We never understood why the school wouldn't do anything about it. Guess it was because he and his wife were part of the school all their lives. They both graduated from Hyde and worked there.
Anonymous:
I would like to take a stab at answering your questions.
1.WRT the 2/4 issue and being taken out of class, most private schools work on a seperate calendar than the public schools. At Hyde the students are expected to maek up the work they miss on their own time. This is one of the tools that the school uses to reinforce the issues of responsibility.
2. WRT to Hyde being a non-profit. To the best of my knowledge most, if not all, private schools are non-profit organizations. This is done for many purposes, one of which is taxes. A non-profit can set money aside for future use. A corporation would have to declare profits and pay out dividens from the "profits" that the organization is making. As far as the family owning the properties in Maine and CT, I think you will find that the property is owned by the non-profit organization and that the Gauld Family is only receiving a salary from the non-profit organization.
3. WRT to passing out meds w/o a Dr on staff - The staff is not prescribing the meds, the school is passing out meds based on the prescriptions written from the students personal physicians. This is no different than at most, if not all, nursing homes or rehab facilities. Again I think if you investigate any boarding school that is not a therapeutic school, having a nurse pass out medications based on a physicians script is not uncommon.
It would be nice for people to do some research before they jump into something without knowing what they are talking about.
Anonymous:
--- Quote ---On 2006-02-13 12:44:00, Anonymous wrote:
"I would like to take a stab at answering your questions.
1.WRT the 2/4 issue and being taken out of class, most private schools work on a seperate calendar than the public schools. At Hyde the students are expected to maek up the work they miss on their own time. This is one of the tools that the school uses to reinforce the issues of responsibility.
2. WRT to Hyde being a non-profit. To the best of my knowledge most, if not all, private schools are non-profit organizations. This is done for many purposes, one of which is taxes. A non-profit can set money aside for future use. A corporation would have to declare profits and pay out dividens from the "profits" that the organization is making. As far as the family owning the properties in Maine and CT, I think you will find that the property is owned by the non-profit organization and that the Gauld Family is only receiving a salary from the non-profit organization.
3. WRT to passing out meds w/o a Dr on staff - The staff is not prescribing the meds, the school is passing out meds based on the prescriptions written from the students personal physicians. This is no different than at most, if not all, nursing homes or rehab facilities. Again I think if you investigate any boarding school that is not a therapeutic school, having a nurse pass out medications based on a physicians script is not uncommon.
It would be nice for people to do some research before they jump into something without knowing what they are talking about."
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Thank you for these clarifications. I would like one more issue addressed. It is clear that Hyde School accepts many students with pretty serious mental health problems and challenges. I have met many students there with diagnoses such as depression, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, anxiety disorders, PTSD, etc. Many have received psychiatric care of one kind of another and are receiving medication to help them with their issues.
How do you explain the fact that Hyde School accepts so many of these kids but does not have mental health professionals on staff? I know Hyde says it's not a therapeutic school, but it seems like a terrible disservice for the school to accept these kids without having mental health professionals on staff. Many of these kids encounter problems with Hyde's rules, but the school treats everything as an 'attitude' problem and 'character' problem. Doesn't it seem quite possible that in some of these cases the student is behaving badly because of untreated mental health issues?
Anonymous:
--- Quote ---On 2006-02-13 14:58:00, Anonymous wrote:
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On 2006-02-13 12:44:00, Anonymous wrote:
"I would like to take a stab at answering your questions.
1.WRT the 2/4 issue and being taken out of class, most private schools work on a seperate calendar than the public schools. At Hyde the students are expected to maek up the work they miss on their own time. This is one of the tools that the school uses to reinforce the issues of responsibility.
2. WRT to Hyde being a non-profit. To the best of my knowledge most, if not all, private schools are non-profit organizations. This is done for many purposes, one of which is taxes. A non-profit can set money aside for future use. A corporation would have to declare profits and pay out dividens from the "profits" that the organization is making. As far as the family owning the properties in Maine and CT, I think you will find that the property is owned by the non-profit organization and that the Gauld Family is only receiving a salary from the non-profit organization.
3. WRT to passing out meds w/o a Dr on staff - The staff is not prescribing the meds, the school is passing out meds based on the prescriptions written from the students personal physicians. This is no different than at most, if not all, nursing homes or rehab facilities. Again I think if you investigate any boarding school that is not a therapeutic school, having a nurse pass out medications based on a physicians script is not uncommon.
It would be nice for people to do some research before they jump into something without knowing what they are talking about."
--- End quote ---
Thank you for these clarifications. I would like one more issue addressed. It is clear that Hyde School accepts many students with pretty serious mental health problems and challenges. I have met many students there with diagnoses such as depression, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, anxiety disorders, PTSD, etc. Many have received psychiatric care of one kind of another and are receiving medication to help them with their issues.
How do you explain the fact that Hyde School accepts so many of these kids but does not have mental health professionals on staff? I know Hyde says it's not a therapeutic school, but it seems like a terrible disservice for the school to accept these kids without having mental health professionals on staff. Many of these kids encounter problems with Hyde's rules, but the school treats everything as an 'attitude' problem and 'character' problem. Doesn't it seem quite possible that in some of these cases the student is behaving badly because of untreated mental health issues?"
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How do you explain it? Very simple. Hyde ONLY cares about the numbers! Hyde does not care about helping kids, which is apparent by the way they operate. As you said, they take in kids who have obvious medical and emotional conditions and they group them all into one and call it an "attitude problem."
Can you imagine a heart specialist taking care of a person with a brain tumor, and the heart specialist telling the patient that he really doesn't have a problem that can't be fixed by the heart doctor. It would also be like this Heart specialist bringing in student interns to operate without any prior education in the medical field.
Hyde does this type of thing everyday. They have unqualified staff members trying to "help" kids who have diagnosed emotional conditions. DOESN'T WORK!!
Anonymous:
The one thing wrong with your trite analogy is that if you had a brain tumor, you would never go see a heart specialist in the first place, your physcian would send you to an oncologist.
The typical parent who sends a kid dealing with LD, ADD, Depresstion, Bi-Polar, etc to Hyde is told by an educational consultant that "Maybe the brain tumor can be made smaller with a little heart care" so the desperate parent is willing to try, but they only follow the parts of the heart Dr.'s prescription that are easy and they want to do.
So the tumor just gets bigger and the parent is forced to go see the Oncologist (A therapy program!)
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