Prospective Parents: take it from an alum.

[Anonymous]

Hyde is all about peer pressure and conformism. Hyde takes lord of the flies instincts trains them to the goals of the institution.

Hurd instincts.

ROFL hahahahaaaa!!! Homerun!

[Anonymous]

I wasn't even there for this student's experience, and I can guess who it was based on their first year. Because there are so few who will stick up for Hyde after graduating.

to whom are you referring? the first poster who started the thread or the students in the video?

[Anonymous]

I understand that there are a lot of very resentful people out there who have left Hyde Schools bitterly. And, in my own opinion, I find it really sad. The time you spend at Hyde is what you make of it; if you aren't going to meet them halfway, you are right when you say you won't get anything out of it. That is not to say they won't try with their own tactics, but regardless - you wasted your parents money, your family's time, as well as years of your own life.

To the credit of the institution, I am a recent graduate of the Woodstock campus, and Hyde changed my life. I was not a kid out doing drugs or on the streets or with a police record. I was disrespectful to my parents and to myself. I was not living up to my "unique potential," as Hyde puts it. Quite the contrary, I was a walking, breathing, self-sabotaging young girl. I graduated Hyde, two years after enrollment, a young woman hoping to embody its five words and five principles and actively working towards that goal. I would not be surprised if asked what they took away from it, each and every member of my graduating class would allude to or outright say the same thing.

If you are prospective parent, please take into consideration that some people are resentful towards Hyde for their own personal reasons. Just like any other school, there are students who do not "click" with the methods and beliefs that the school is founded upon. Please, please speak with some alumni (who have graduated, not just left) and the staff and faculty at either Bath or Woodstock so you can gain a better perspective of what Hyde is really about.. not the slander that these threads seem to always contain.

[Ursus]

I was disrespectful to my parents and to myself. I was not living up to my "unique potential," as Hyde puts it. ...I was a walking, breathing, self-sabotaging young girl. I graduated Hyde, two years after enrollment, a young woman hoping to embody its five words and five principles and actively working towards that goal.

Glad to hear that you feel the process "worked" for you, Guest. Any chance that your analysis might be a tad narrow-minded or premature? With all due respect, I detect a certain intolerance for others who do not share your sunny opinion of Hyde School. Is this perchance not in keeping with the Hyde word "Concern?"

[Perhaps it IS. Perhaps Hyde's definition of "concern" is significantly different from that of the dictionary, and something that prospective parents would do well to clarify beforehand.]

The time you spend at Hyde is what you make of it; if you aren't going to meet them halfway, you are right when you say you won't get anything out of it.

Tell us, what would you suggest for the students who have been physically or psychologically harmed by Hyde School? Should they still be expected to "meet Hyde halfway?" What if they are no longer capable of that? What might you recommend for students who were put through long drawn-out public gauntlets of moral reprisal reminiscent of feudal village justice ... for something they may not even have done?

What might you tell the students with learning disabilities and psychiatric diagnoses, who were informed that these were just character flaws, and punished and ridiculed accordingly?

What might you say to the former students who were sexually preyed upon by founders Joe Gauld and Sumner Hawley? Think those "relationships" were appropriate or psychologically healthy?

What might you say to the students who were raped or sexually assaulted by faculty members Robert Thurrell, Larry Dubinsky, and Earl Bigelow (as well as too many others to mention in one sentence)?  

What might you say to families who were ripped apart, never to be repaired, by Hyde's exploitation of their (previously minor) dysfunctions for the sake of the almighty dollar, and big ego-strokes for those at Hyde's helm?

And just exactly what might you have to say to the families of students who attempted suicide not long after their Hyde experience, some of whom were tragically successful at said attempt?

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It would appear that Hyde School, not the students, wasted these parents' money, wasted these families' time, not to mention years of these students' and their families' lives spent trying to recover from traumas associated with Hyde ... assuming they are still around to do so.

[Anonymous]

What might you say to the students who were raped or sexually assaulted by faculty members

Why don't you ask a former headmaster about his son who was raped while at the Bath Campus. Gang raped by other boys at Bath. This happened in the 90's. He spoke about it in group and they chose never to call in the authorities! Shame on Hyde and all who covered this up!!