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Any HYDE STAFFERS willing to post?

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Anonymous:
It must be a nightmare to teach at Hyde.  Teachers have to go through this 'process' too.  I'm a teacher myself (not at Hyde) , and to be part of that system I would have to toss out everything I learned about learning theory, good practices and child psychology.  Like the "Emperor's New Clothes" - it sounds good at first, but, there must be some reason why the turnover is as high as it is there.  My child's favorite teachers have all left.  Just as parents are reticent to go public about their complaint, so are teachers, especially since they'll need references in their future.

Anonymous:
Who were your child's favorite teachers and why?

Anonymous:
I am not the "anonymous" you are asking about as far as favorite teachers, but I was a student at Hyde and will tell you about the teachers.

My favorite teachers ended up being the ones who were not involved in their "own self discovery."  There were a few good teachers at the school who for some reason the school leaves alone, and does not insist they go through the same seminars. For most teachers and their families, it was required.  I don't know for sure but I think the ones that they leave alone are the ones who they know would not "buy into the program" yet they don't want to lose them.

What got to me the most was the totally f--ked up teachers who they had leading the seminars.  So many of my teachers had such deep seeded problems they should have NEVER been giving advise or facilitating seminars. I never understood this.  The young ones especially!  It seemed to me that any of the good, psychologically normal teachers would get the hell out within a year or two because it was just too bizarre of a school.  Those ones who left were my best and favorite teachers.

I so much appreciate some of the posts I am seeing on this board.  So many of you have articulated what is seriously wrong with Hyde.

tommyfromhyde1:
I don't remember faculty having to go through seminar so they must have changed that since '76. The seminars I remember were just the freshman class and one faculty member who was the leader and not a target. I know I dreaded the damn things because I was always the most convenient target in the class. If you wanted not to be the focus of a seminar just talk about 'ol Tom.
A fundamentalist Christian President who claims God told him to invade Iraq ? an act that killed more than 150,000 civilians, mostly women and children ? is not that much different from a fundamentalist Islamic fanatic who claims it is the will of Allah that he send young men to America to crash airliners into office buildings and kill 3,000 plus.

DOUG THOMPSON
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Anonymous:
Oh yes Tommy, the staff have their own sick seminars!  They make them talk about their marriages, and everything else intrusive that the rest of us go through.  Hyde will say this shows how great the school is in making the teachers go through the same thing, but from what I understand many teachers would bolt and run because of this intrusivness!!  I remember hearing from Mrs Grant about being raped as a student in college.  Is this really what all of us kids need to hear in order to "grow?"

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