On 2006-04-01 05:36:00, Anonymous wrote:
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On 2006-04-01 05:13:00, Anonymous wrote:
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On 2006-03-31 19:09:00, Anonymous wrote:
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On 2006-03-30 19:21:00, Anonymous wrote:
"From Malcolm's letter to the Hyde community about a replacement for Duncan McCrann:
"At this point primary consideration is being given to individuals with Hyde experience and training who will be best suited to lead the faculty in the common goal of delivering the promise of the four points of Hyde's character compass:
1. character development as defined by the Five Words and Principles;
2. a faculty that will go to the ends of the earth to help students meet with success and fulfillment;
3. the most dynamic student culture in American education (i.e., Brother's Keeper);
4. family and school working together."
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This lame Hyde PR spin is getting pretty old. Many of us have seen a very different side of Hyde. The other side of this coin includes staff who don't live up to the five words and principles (such as staff who resign because of sexual harassment, staff who scream and yell at students, administrators who aren't willing to give truthful answers to parents' questions), a student culture that includes many students who spin out of control at Hyde because the school can't even begin to meet their complicated needs (This is a DYNAMIC STUDENT CULTURE? Please.), and families who are in intense conflict with Hyde because of Hyde's confrontational tactics (This is FAMILY AND SCHOOL WORKING TOGETHER? Please.) Hyde's rhetoric sounds great. There's a smelly underbelly at Hyde that flies in the face of the Madison Avenue spin. "
Your tired diatribe of negative crap is the only thing around here that smells. Hyde has worked for thousands of families since 1966. Sorry it did not work for yours, but like they say in AA it doesn't work unless YOU work it.
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This is an interesting exchange. I'd like to weigh in. My family threw ourselves into the Hyde process. We gave it everything we had. About half way through we witnessed some very unprofessional behaviors by Hyde staff. Several people really mistreated some students and parents. We ended up meeting three other sets of parents who also had horrible experiences that really hurt the students and made the parents' life miserable. So, there are families who work hard to make Hyde work and then find out that there's some genuine rot at Hyde. Maybe that wasn't your experience, but it sure was ours. "
Care to define "mistreat" and "horrible experiences"? Then I was there the only things that came close were:
a guy with a bad comb over yelling at you
a very demanding and physical sports program
a guy with coke bottle glasses and a gold mercury capri used to drive his index finger into your chest when he talked to you
a guy named henry would make you do meaningless work
the male/female ratio was about 4/1
In the big scheme of things, not really horrible except the male female ratio.
If you have your head up your ass and you are screwing up your kids life and are completely clueless about it maybe having some one yell at you and publicly humiliate you is not a bad thing.
