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follow-up questions on Hyde School
Anonymous:
The following is off the website of The Fund For Public Schools of the NYC Dept of Education. I urge concerned students or parents of Hyde to write or call the appropriate person/persons, (Mayor Bloomberg, Chancelor Klein)to inform them of your experiences at Hyde and to discuss the new Hyde Charter School which is in the works for NYC.............................................
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Anonymous:
--- Quote ---On 2005-09-26 19:17:00, Anonymous wrote:
Yes, Hyde's use of many young faculty may not be unusual. However, what's unusual -- and unconscionable, I've come to realize -- is that these remarkably young faculty (some of whom disclose lots of information about their own personal struggles) are expected to oversee family seminars during which students and parents disclose the most incredibly personal information. I've now sat through many seminars and can't believe that no one has put a stop to this dangerous practice. I've seen kids yell at parents, parents scream at and threaten kids, and participants talk about their wish to end their lives, incest, affairs, addictions, etc. -- and all of this is being run by someone who teaches history (or whatever)! It's incredible. You may not want to believe it, but quite a few families leave the school because of their sense of horror. The ones I've met are not at all inclined to run away from their problems. They simply want a setting that's run more skillfully and professionally by staff who have proper training and life experience, and are less doctrinaire and arrogant.
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Could Hyde faculty or staff please explain more about this? How can one talk about incest, affairs, etc in a public forum with both students and parents?
This seems almost criminal to force kids to partake in this type of a seminar. I say "force" because according to all that is written on this website, it is mandatory to participate in these seminars. I am disgusted in what I am reading and wonder if the state or county school board has looked into this! How can these Charter Schools be opening with this type of format?
Anonymous:
Why? What do you have to hide?
Anonymous:
There are some things not appropriate to discuss in an open forum especially with children! Why don't you just let your kids watch you having sex if everything should be out in the open?? Get my point???
15 year old kids do not need to be exposed to violence, drugs, sex and marital problems especially with what goes on in other people's households! Save it for adulthood, not to be taught in school!!
Sounds like some of these kids need psychological counseling, not Hyde!! Maybe this is where the problem lies. Possibly Hyde should not be accepting all of these families when they don't have the proper staff to handle these situations!
Anonymous:
Clearly this is one of the biggest complaints people have about Hyde -- the requirement and expectation that seminar participants will disclose their inner-most thoughts, feelings, struggles, life history details, family conflicts. I strongly believe that parents and kids alike should examine these issues in a constructive way -- I have no problem with that. And, I don't reject Hyde's claim that kids' issues may reflect, at times, parents' struggles. That's fine. What's so scary is Hyde's requirement that everyone bare their soles to relative strangers and in a group run by people who appear to have no or little background in managing this sort of discussion (Isn't this like a therapy group?) and who may mishandle these very complicated and difficult issues as a result of their naivete. I've witnessed some incredibly unskilled and hurtful efforts by Hyde staff to address these issues in seminars. I know that many families (not all) feel the same way. This is one of the main reasons we're planning to sever our ties to Hyde -- we've had enough.
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