Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > Hyde Schools
Former students - Our worst experiences
Anonymous:
--- Quote ---On 2005-11-26 14:31:00, Anonymous wrote:
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On 2005-11-26 13:39:00, Lars wrote:
"I spent a summer then three years at Hyde and graduated in 1990. I went to college and law school at Arizona State. I spent five years as a public defender and now have my own practice out in AZ.
I hadn't really thought much about Hyde for several years until one day I googled "hyde" and found this site. Sure brought back some lousy memories. But it's good to see that others feel the same way I do about the place.
Just got my pitch for the "annual fund." It went straight into the wastebasket. I only give money to ASU - I loved it there and they gave me quite a bit of academic scholarship money."
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The fact that you Googled Hyde and found this website is VERY significant. There has been so much recent dialogue about Hyde on this website that it now shows up on Page 2 when you Google Hyde. That is the strongest possible evidence that word about Hyde is getting out (for quite some time this website was much farther down in the Google listings for Hyde).
Any parent considering the school who Googles Hyde is likely to find this website. If you're one of those parents, I would encourage you to read as many postings as possible, focus especially on the thoughtful comments, stay away from the angry diatribes that seem impulsive, and come to your own conclusions about Hyde. I think that any reasonably objective, thinking parent would read these postings and decide to avoid Hyde completely. I can't imagine reading the credible commentary here and even bothering to call Hyde to inquire, much less fill out an application and go for a visit.
Parents who are searching for a school for your struggling teen: Please find a skilled, well informed, and principled educational consultant who knows the landscape. There are some terrific schools out there, and Hyde isn't one of them. Any educational consultant who encourages you to seriously consider Hyde is waving a big red flag. I strongly recommend finding a highly recommended educational consultant who knows better. "
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Yes, the fact that this website is now very high in the rankings when you Google Hyde School is very significant. As you suggest, anyone who Googles Hyde is probably going to find these important and compelling postings about all the problems at Hyde. Lots of people are getting information about Hyde from this website, which is reflected in the prominent Google placement.
I imagine this is deeply troubling to the folks at Hyde. For decades Joe Gauld and company have been obsessed with control -- controlling students, controlling parents, controlling all the spin about Hyde. Now, perhaps for the first time in Hyde's history, Joe G. and his crew are losing control. This website has opened the floodgates; many people who have had terrible Hyde experiences and brutally painful encounters with Joe Gauld, et al. are FINALLY having their uncensored say and Hyde can't put a stop to it the way they put a stop to anything they don't like that happens on campus. The horse is out of the barn; I doubt that Hyde can do much to control the spread of bad news about the school. Perhaps Hyde is getting a taste of its own medicine.
I think it's just fascinating that if you Google lots of other schools that enroll very similiar students (Island View, Carlbrook, Oakley School, King George, White Mountain and many others) it's very hard to find any evidence of the kind of intense anger, frustration, resentment, and distress that we're seeing on this website about Hyde. Try it and you'll see what I mean. Hyde seems to be in a class by itself. One wonders if this kind of public relations nightmare is generating any anxiety among Hyde staff. Is the Hyde/Joe Gauld denial so powerful that even this overwhelmingly negative press doesn't lead them to sit up and take notice? If I were running Hyde right now I'd be worried about the numbers of people who may discover this website when they Google Hyde and who decide, as a result, to avoid the school like the plague.
Anonymous:
Not just regular harassment. It was sexual harassment of a teacher touching a young girl in an innappropriate way. He was also verbally abusing some of the girls in a sexual way!
Anonymous:
--- Quote ---On 2005-11-26 15:07:00, Antigen wrote:
"Does Gauld ever hold forth on how professional psychiatrists don't know what they're doing?
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is
proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in
everlasting ignorance- that principle is contempt prior to investigation.
--Herbert Spencer
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You better belive he does!
tommyfromhyde1:
Sorry, that last was me. forgot to log in
Redemption: Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sins through the murder of their deity against whom they sinned.
--Ambrose Bierce
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Anonymous:
--- Quote ---On 2005-11-26 13:39:00, Lars wrote:
"I spent a summer then three years at Hyde and graduated in 1990. I went to college and law school at Arizona State. I spent five years as a public defender and now have my own practice out in AZ.
I hadn't really thought much about Hyde for several years until one day I googled "hyde" and found this site. Sure brought back some lousy memories. But it's good to see that others feel the same way I do about the place.
Just got my pitch for the "annual fund." It went straight into the wastebasket. I only give money to ASU - I loved it there and they gave me quite a bit of academic scholarship money."
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You are one of the fortunate ones Lars! Very few graduates of Hyde are able to go on to Law School. Hyde's education is so poor that most kids are lucky to get into a Community College! I always get a kick out of Hyde's PR materials that brag about a 98% acceptance to college! They don't tell the WHOLE story or even close to it!
Consider yourself lucky Lars. You did make it through Hyde in spite of those wacko's, and you did move on even though they caused you a lot of emotional distress. I hope you were able to forgive your parents. I now understand how clueless my parents were and how they were so desperate they hung onto the hope that Hyde was everything they said they were! My parents are so embarassed they got sucked into the Cult that they don't tell anyone about their experiences. It is as though those 2 1/2 years never existed! Rather than being angry at my parents, I feel sorry for them and the embarassment they live with.
The ones I feel the most sorry for are the Hyde Cultists! I remember one family who turned their lives over to Hyde then finally broke away and moved to California. They were so lost without Hyde, they were drawn back in again. I don't call this a committed family, I call them pathetic and sad that they couldn't survive in the real world, but instead had to go back to their leader, Joe Gauld!
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