To the Anonymous who wrote the above. I REALLY wouldn't "go there." For every one time that Hyde might have done something responsible, there are five times they did something irresponsible and down right dangerous!! That is an argument you DONT want to have! You are looking for negatives to come out on this board when you open that can of worms!!"
Its not about what happened or didn't Anonymous, its about people posting on stuff they don't know about that irks me. Some recent examples include (and I paraphrase):
The Gaulds are rich and funnelling money from the school, just do a "dunn" and bradstreet.
Hyde had a legal obligation to report a rape and didn't.
Hyde uses LGATs and those have been proven invalid by a NIH study.
Students in private schools in Maine have free speech rights.
And then there are a lot of "I think" as in, "I think" the faculty had to be threatened with arrest before they would turn their dory around, or do something that the Coast Guard was telling the to do.
My guess on this last one? It was VERY scary for the students in the boats to learn a storm was coming, and so everyone's anxiety spiked. And more than likely the faculty responded promptly and professionally, if for no other reason that to save their own damn life.
But if he didn't do that, then tell us what you witnessed first hand, not what you heard five monkeys down the high-school-whispering line, in a situation where everyone's anxiety was already spiking.
Look y'all, I don't challenge you because I doubt that there were situations where students were put at greater risk than was appropriate. I lived through one where a student came within inches of his death through the recklessness of the faculty.
What I am a stickler for, however, is the truth, and yes, I dissect the written word because while I am a supporter of Hyde, I also won't quibble with real facts.....but will definitely jump all over gossip, innuendo and provable mistruths, because use of the internet is a great tool for causing damage to peoples lives and reputations all anonymously and sometimes even telling the "truth", even if that truth is slippery. (Not to mention that it also pretty much kills any credibility a poster has and since everyone here pretty much goes by anonymous even if they could have an anonymous alias so as to track who said what and have real conversations, it thus also damages the credibility of the site as well.)
Let me give you an example of what all this means for me. I am card-carrying liberal. A Democrat for most of my life. And I was outraged in the last 8 years at all the emails I got from Republicans which I could prove wrong, invalid or dishonest with a very simple websearch.
One day it dawned on me that I was partaking in forwarding a lot of democratic information that validity of which I hadn't checked. And so I started checking, and I found the dems were just as bad (well, not entirely, but of course that my bias!), and I left the democratic party as a result.
I realized that there were these two machines out there that lived to smear each other....and they could do that extremely well with gossip, innuendo and lies that played into what people already believed and/or wanted to hear.
I think this site suffers from a lot of the same problem. There's a lot of back-slapping and praise for the most outrageous stories, and somehow it looks like people get off on being validated for that. But really, how many of you are critical of the others on here you think have the same views?
I have to say, I've seen nary a challenge among the ranks. Instead, I am the lightning rod and the backslapping goes on.
I would think that should make at least some of you suspicious about the quality of information that gets posted here.
And the fact that I don't see it invokes notions of everything from Lord of the Flies to To Kill a Mockingbird.
Where is the critical thought folks?
