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For Current Students at Hyde School
Anonymous:
There are obviously some kids at Hyde who are trying to post on this board. First of all, good luck to you. I hope you don't get caught and hope that Hyde does not try to censor you or punish you for speaking out against them.
I have some questions for you since I have been out of there a long time.
1. Does anyone know the real reason why Duncan McCrann is leaving?
2. What is the current enrollment? Hyde lies on their website so want to know if anyone knows the true numbers?
3. Has Hyde hired a professional Psychologist at either campus? When I was there a nurse handed out drugs and sometimes a staff member did this.
4. What would you say the majority of the kids there suffer from? Do you see kids with eating disorders, drug and alcohol issues, psychological problems, aggressive behavior?
Would really appreciate what any of you have to say. Also my advice to you is to play the game Hyde School wants you to, otherwise it will be a losing battle for you. Seldom do the parents realize how bad it is at the school and how unprofessional the staff and teachers are. They put on a good show.
Anonymous:
--- Quote ---On 2006-04-20 19:50:00, Anonymous wrote:
"There are obviously some kids at Hyde who are trying to post on this board. First of all, good luck to you. I hope you don't get caught and hope that Hyde does not try to censor you or punish you for speaking out against them.
I have some questions for you since I have been out of there a long time.
1. Does anyone know the real reason why Duncan McCrann is leaving?
2. What is the current enrollment? Hyde lies on their website so want to know if anyone knows the true numbers?
3. Has Hyde hired a professional Psychologist at either campus? When I was there a nurse handed out drugs and sometimes a staff member did this.
4. What would you say the majority of the kids there suffer from? Do you see kids with eating disorders, drug and alcohol issues, psychological problems, aggressive behavior?
Would really appreciate what any of you have to say. Also my advice to you is to play the game Hyde School wants you to, otherwise it will be a losing battle for you. Seldom do the parents realize how bad it is at the school and how unprofessional the staff and teachers are. They put on a good show."
--- End quote ---
What campus did you attend? When I was at Woodstock I was always amazed at the number of students who would line up outside the nurse's office in the boys dorm to get their meds. Many (probably most) were there to get the medications to help them with their depression, ADD, anxiety and lots of other mental problems. Many of these students seemed to have a real hard time at Hyde. I always wondered why Hyde didn't have any counselors on staff to help these students. Wouldn't you think that a school that accepts these kinds of students would have professionals to help them? No wonder so many of them had a hard time at Hyde.
I'd also like to know the answers to your questions. Does Hyde have mental health counselors now? When I was there Hyde seemed to accept almost everyone who applied. I wonder if they've really started to reject so many people, or is that a lie?
Anonymous:
I was at Woodstock a couple of years ago only for a few months...
The faculty there were pretty up tight. Who did you think the cool ones were? You know the people who really cared and really wanted you to succeed?
Anonymous:
Can't answer all your questions but have ideas about some-
Have no clue why McCrann is "downsizing" although I know that opening their house continuously for seminars and the like seemed to drive his wife nuts - although she remained consistently pleasant.....
We withdrew our child at the end of the year from Woodstock - after one year - one of our concerns was that there was just nursing staff/or staff members to hand out meds - no other medical professionals were there -(our child was NOT on meds so didn't have to get in that long line - but he saw it as the nurses' offices were just below his room)-
Our child was learning disabled with adoption issues and anxiety issues.
Hyde had promised an adoption group - never happened - his learning disabilities were supposed to be addressed in their nightly LEAD program for which we paid an additional 2/3000 dollars EACH semester - was nothing more than a study hall with anybody they could find to proctor - NO specific subject help was given.
Seminars - required- were a disgrace - the atmosphere was eerily quiet and foreboding for ALL - there was no allowance for smiles and GOOD experiences - everything you related was to be bad.....
All in all - a pretty patehtic experience
Anonymous:
--- Quote ---On 2006-04-21 09:05:00, Anonymous wrote:
"Can't answer all your questions but have ideas about some-
Have no clue why McCrann is "downsizing" although I know that opening their house continuously for seminars and the like seemed to drive his wife nuts - although she remained consistently pleasant.....
We withdrew our child at the end of the year from Woodstock - after one year - one of our concerns was that there was just nursing staff/or staff members to hand out meds - no other medical professionals were there -(our child was NOT on meds so didn't have to get in that long line - but he saw it as the nurses' offices were just below his room)-
Our child was learning disabled with adoption issues and anxiety issues.
Hyde had promised an adoption group - never happened - his learning disabilities were supposed to be addressed in their nightly LEAD program for which we paid an additional 2/3000 dollars EACH semester - was nothing more than a study hall with anybody they could find to proctor - NO specific subject help was given.
Seminars - required- were a disgrace - the atmosphere was eerily quiet and foreboding for ALL - there was no allowance for smiles and GOOD experiences - everything you related was to be bad.....
All in all - a pretty patehtic experience"
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Holy cow, things haven't changed much. Our kid was at Hyde 4 years ago. The problems we had there were exactly the same. We were told there would be an adoption group, but there was none. We paid for LEAD services and got virtually nothing. The seminars were a disgrace - grim, painful, humorless, and run by staff who didn't have a clue and were so far in over their heads (with one exception). Lots of kids with horrible problems got handed meds and nothing else. We left Hyde feeling furious, misled, disillusioned and embarrassed that we got sucked into Hyde. We are so much better off out of the place.
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