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Prospective Parents: take it from an alum.

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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.

Anonymous:
"Aaron's desire is schizophrenic, an incestuous desire for the other of himself, Holly, the completion of the self to the end of eliminating desire, hence, a death wish."

Anonymous:

--- Quote from: "Psyche" ---"Aaron's desire is schizophrenic, an incestuous desire for the other of himself, Holly, the completion of the self to the end of eliminating desire, hence, a death wish."

--- End quote ---

AKA, less poetically...."self gratification"

Anonymous:
OK
I graduated from Hyde. I went on to be by all standards successful and I am truly a happy, well adjusted person with a family and a good job and a life long marrage, ect.

But, I Don't look back at Hyde School as a fond memory. The school was sold to my mom, I was not happy there but was shamed into compliance in these public encounter groups that were pretty stressful for a shy adolescent. And my Mom towed the line and rebuked my concerns about the cult like place I was living in. It was a bad time for me that lasted 4 years.
They forced me to play sports I did not like or choose so that the schools teams were evened out. I am an excellent athlete and played NCAA sports, in a sport that I was denied at Hyde for 3 of the 4 years I was there. (seems like unique potential denial to me).
Then they forced me to sing and dance in a goofy show designed primarily as an infomercial for potential families. I have never performed since. I was coerced to help evangelize , how utterly embarrassing! I am not really an extrovert, but that was the Hyde school model student (all in-yourface and confident, a singin' and a dancin' and telling you all about how you should be leading your life and what is wrong with you) Unique or conformist? you decide
 
I was convinced I had to comply or lose my family support eventually I accepted it all as true and necessary..Yes I was a little hard to take when I got to college but youth, music, drugs and women helped out and then later I started to do a thing called .....Learning. I realized people respond better to being told what is good about them, and that love is not tough, and that achievement is in fact the embodiment and essence of character.

It was not really all bad, the previous poster seemed to like it (perhaps the coolaid has yet to wear off). My advice is that if you are sending your kids there do it for them not for you. Ask them outside of an encouter group at home where they are safe if they like it . Don't abandon them like the Hyde school leaders ask...unless you are tired of parenting and just want someone else to do it

Anonymous:
Unique or conformist? you decide


   Hyde is all about peer pressure and conformism.  Hyde takes lord of the flies instincts trains them to the goals of the institution.  I saw some vicious things done to those who heard a different drummer.  Kids that were able to go along did OK.  Some of those kids, the wheels fell of after they left: crash and burn. 


    I have no idea what you should do with a kid you can't control.  I would think pretty hard before I sent a kid to Hyde.

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