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article on the Hyde School
Anonymous:
A colleague recently told me about a fascinating article on the Hyde School. It's from a journal called Education Next (it's published by Stanford University's Hoover Institution). Anyone considering sending their child to Hyde should read this article carefully -- it's very thorough and professional. The author says Hyde almost feels like a cult and has an incredibly high drop-out rate -- I find that scary. Here's the article: http://www.educationnext.org/20051/22.html
Anonymous:
This is a very informative article about the Hyde School. This should be distributed widely to people considering the school, educational consultants, etc. It's very revealing.
HydeFan:
For Malcolm's response, see: http://www.educationnext.org/20052/4.html
IMHO, as well-healed as they want to make themselves sound, the article gives no information on James Traub, the author, and the purpose of the studying entity is as follows.
"The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University, is a public policy research center devoted to advanced study of politics, economics, and political economy?both domestic and foreign?as well as international affairs. With its world-renowned group of scholars and ongoing programs of policy-oriented research, the Hoover Institution puts its accumulated knowledge to work as a prominent contributor to the world marketplace of ideas defining a free society."
Hardly the people from whom I might be inclined to make such a powerful decision as to where to put my child in school.
Anonymous:
I take exception to Malcolm Gaulds response to this article by Traub.
First of all Malcolm says, "Good teaching will invariably loose out to poor parenting."
This statement is true, but the academics at Hyde are very poor. This is a FACT! I hope Malcolm is not referring to Hyde when he says, "good teaching."
Another statement from Malcolm, "Traub misleads the reader when he suggests that Hyde has abandoned academic requirements for graduation. Our enterprising culture did indeed lead us to a brief flirtation with this notion in our earliest days. However, stringent traditional requirements have been in place for more than 30 years."
Hello??? Hyde does not apply these requirements like in the public school sector, which is overseen by a strict set of standards. If Hyde's rules were the same they would not be taking our children out of class for a week at a time in order to "punish" them by putting them on 2-4. It is hard enough to keep these kids on track academically!
Malcolm further states, "The mathematician would categorize as ?necessary but not sufficient? his reference to Hyde as a family ?caste.? To be sure, the Gauld family has long had a heavy hand in the leadership of Hyde. However, Mr. Traub fails to mention that three of Hyde?s four schools are led by individuals with no familial ties to the Gaulds. There are no family members on Hyde?s board of governors, the authority to which all four of those teams report."
Hyde is certainly run by the Gauld/Hurd/McMillan/Grant family. The others have been indoctoranated into this strange family web. Malcolm Gauld fails to mention that it is two of the four schools who were run by family members until recently. The sister of Malcolm's wife, and the sister's husband, The Grants, started Hyde Woodstock and ran it until there was a big scandal at the school. I remember there was also another member of the family at the helm, but he resigned or took a leave of absence after admitting some kind of plagiarism.
Troll Control:
--- Quote ---On 2005-10-02 02:18:00, HydeFan wrote:
"For Malcolm's response, see: http://www.educationnext.org/20052/4.html
IMHO, as well-healed as they want to make themselves sound, the article gives no information on James Traub, the author, and the purpose of the studying entity is as follows.
"The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University, is a public policy research center devoted to advanced study of politics, economics, and political economy?both domestic and foreign?as well as international affairs. With its world-renowned group of scholars and ongoing programs of policy-oriented research, the Hoover Institution puts its accumulated knowledge to work as a prominent contributor to the world marketplace of ideas defining a free society."
Hardly the people from whom I might be inclined to make such a powerful decision as to where to put my child in school.
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--- End quote ---
You're an idiot. You prove yourself an idiot by not recognizing the intellectual power of a public policy think-tank over your GED education (thanks, Hyde!).
Do you have one of those hats where you can drink two Hyde Koolaids simultaneously?
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