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Requesting Parents' Assessment of Hyde School
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: ""mushpot"" ---as a former student of hyde, i can say that it is very important to investigate what the school is about and come to your own conclusion as a parent. equally important is understanding that it is not really possible to understand what it is really like unless you are faculty or student. the website and literature are very reassurring, especially for a parent of a struggling high school student, but the controversies, inadequacies, and incindiary incidents are played down and drowned out by faith in the 'process' and by extension your character. the founder of the school is narsissistic and strubborn, and his ask no questions tough love approach comes out as bullying and lecturing more times than not. but again, this is my openion
i was treated extremely inappropriatly on multiple occasions by faculty, once crossing the line into unprovoked violence coming from a senior faculty. i was called 'bitch' and 'f*cking idiot' during confrontations. the many faults and unprofessionalism amoung the staff is not represented truthfully on the website, so beware.
hyde school sincerly believes that they help families all the time and are committed to doing more of it. i still talk to people who are firm that they owe their lives to hyde. i dont. and most of the people who retain their souls after graduating or getting out dont either and arent bashful about talking about it.
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You seem like a new poster. I thank you for giving us your honest opinion. It is always good to hear from students who went to Hyde. Would love to see more students posting.
Can you give us some specifics of the negative and positive things you observed while at Hyde? What is your opinion about Hyde stating that 98% off all graduates are accepted to college?
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: ""mushpot"" ---as a former student of hyde, i can say that it is very important to investigate what the school is about and come to your own conclusion as a parent. equally important is understanding that it is not really possible to understand what it is really like unless you are faculty or student. the website and literature are very reassurring, especially for a parent of a struggling high school student, but the controversies, inadequacies, and incindiary incidents are played down and drowned out by faith in the 'process' and by extension your character. the founder of the school is narsissistic and strubborn, and his ask no questions tough love approach comes out as bullying and lecturing more times than not. but again, this is my openion
i was treated extremely inappropriatly on multiple occasions by faculty, once crossing the line into unprovoked violence coming from a senior faculty. i was called 'bitch' and 'f*cking idiot' during confrontations. the many faults and unprofessionalism amoung the staff is not represented truthfully on the website, so beware.
hyde school sincerly believes that they help families all the time and are committed to doing more of it. i still talk to people who are firm that they owe their lives to hyde. i dont. and most of the people who retain their souls after graduating or getting out dont either and arent bashful about talking about it.
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Although I am very sorry to hear about your experiences, I am very glad to see your comments here. You help to affirm my own Hyde experience. I too heard Hyde staff curse at students in incredibly inappropriate ways. I also agree that Hyde's materials (see their web site and print materials) are phenomenally slick and are designed to suck in very vulnerable parents of very vulnerable kids. It's hard for me to believe the stark contrast between Hyde's slick website and the real Hyde that I know and experienced first hand. It reminds me of the slickest Madison Avenue techniques used to try to save a lousy, dying product. It's fiction.
Sure, some people credit Hyde for "saving" their lives. That's fine, and I wish them well. But for every one of those families I'm willing to bet their are DOZENS who felt abused, mistreated, exploited and deeply damaged by Hyde. I've talked to dozens of parents myself who feel exactly that way.
Thanks for adding your clear voice.
gary eskow:
Sure, some people credit Hyde for "saving" their lives. That's fine, and I wish them well. But for every one of those families I'm willing to bet their are DOZENS who felt abused, mistreated, exploited and deeply damaged by Hyde. I've talked to dozens of parents myself who feel exactly that way.
Thanks for adding your clear voice.[/quote]
So, who's willing to have their story appear in print?
Anonymous:
I was never "abused" while there. One male teacher would call me in for meetings and want to talk about really inappropriate things . was 15 or 17 at the time and oblivious. Only later did I realize he was testing the waters for a Senator Foley experience. I am sure he was expanding more than just the "character" of some of my classmates. I was not a behavior problem but a recluse . So for me the place was more of a scary ordeal, than a directly abusive experience like some of my peers had.
My warning to parents would be that if you have a kid who needs to be corralled and taught respect and self control it is a viable option. But for the undermotivated or unassertive kid who needs motivation and self assurance it is stifiling. Examples: If I did well on a test , I was told that I was selfish because I did well and did not help the others. When I scored my first goal ever in a lacrosse game coach Malcom Gauld said to me "I don't know how that ball went in, it was a really slow shot, i think the golie did not see it. " Not an uplifting experience for me, but some kids need to be smacked down and reigned in..please don't critique my spelling, I went to Hyde.
Anonymous:
--- Quote ---If I did well on a test , I was told that I was selfish because I did well and did not help the others.
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Oh, do I hear that ever so well!! Same thing here. You could find NOTHING to be proud about like you would in a regular school.
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