Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > Hyde Schools
"Shoreland" shines a light on Gulag schools like Hyde
Anonymous:
--- Quote ---On 2006-02-27 13:47:00, Anonymous wrote:
"I remember Henry and Mary. The thing I have always been curious about was what went on after I left. The Whole thing between Joe and Ed when the "book" and National Committment fizzled. I heard a number of rumors. Like Larry Kennedy embezzing funds. Joe and Ed having sex with various students, all of which I enjoyed with a certain sagenfroid, being a disaffected former student. I have run into folks that are very pro one side or the other. Kind of like kids taking sides in a messy divorce. Joe is back and Ed is in Kennebunk plotting a coup perhaps.
anon
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The amazing thing about all of this is that Hyde is supposedly a "character building" school and yet the kids as well as the staff seem to be completely screwed up! The school hires these former screwed up students to teach the newer screwed up kids! Gee Wiz, seems like former students have something very laughable to look back on in life!!
Anonymous:
--- Quote ---On 2006-02-28 07:00:00, Anonymous wrote:
The amazing thing about all of this is that Hyde is supposedly a "character building" school and yet the kids as well as the staff seem to be completely screwed up! The school hires these former screwed up students to teach the newer screwed up kids! Gee Wiz, seems like former students have something very laughable to look back on in life!!"
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It's the same way throughout this entire twisted little teen "help" industry. Has been since its inception. Sad but true.
Anonymous:
Hyde was an interesting place. The experience for
me was on the whole positive. It took a number of years to get to the place that I saw it in that light. There was a bit of kool aid drinking when I was there. National Committment was pretty bazar. I did a parody school newspaper when I was there. The head line was "Eastern Block Commandos in Bath to Dash Nations Only Hope" Joe walked by as I was tacking it up. He looked over my shoulder, read it, ,said "Hummm" and walked down the hall way. I was pretty out in terms of my kool aid free diet. I was never punished for the National Committment parody. The "leadership" students were all on board. Hyde had to be spread to the nation to save it.
I have fond memories of almost getting hit my a tanker ship in pennobscott bay in the fog while rowing a dory or being dropped off at parkers head and running back to campus. When I was there there were a number of folk there that were not "screwed up" and were truly interested in helping people grow and deal with the issues they were going thru. Larry Pray, Bud Warren, Jim Searles and Charlie Bond come to mind. Paul hurd , henry milton, and Joe could be confrontational. Paul was famous for driving his index finger into kids chests. They mostly left me alone. I don't know why. There were a bunch of kids there at the time that were pretty well balanced, although I can not claim to be one of them.
The staff at the time clearly did not know what they were doing with some of the wilder among us. Phil in our summer school was a case in point. _I_ could tell he was crazy. I have been assured that they screen now. There is a line. It is not a bright line but there none the less, where chemistry takes over and attitude and choice fade. Telling some one with a bipolar disorder that schizophrania is a choice is like telling some one with diarhea that shitting is a choice. Try it next time you are so afflicted. I remember kids with real problem being told to make the choice. I don't think it worked for most of them. I don't know if they do that any more. Hope not.
Malcolm and his sister are strung together a little better then the old man in my estimation. One the whole I am glad to see the place still going.
J&E survivor
Anonymous:
Who are you?
I was there then!
Anonymous:
Do you remember Jan Holland? She died last year, of breast cancer. I have a very happy memory of Jan in a tight rib knit shirt. She used to call me a "very very sick young man"
J&E
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