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Former students - Our worst experiences
Anonymous:
--- Quote ---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!
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It sounds like you may be an administrator at Hyde with some inside information on real statistics. Can you please share the numbers of actual students who go on to college? I am confused by all the posts here and would like real facts.
Anonymous:
--- Quote ---On 2005-11-27 21:36:00, Anonymous wrote:
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--- Quote ---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!
--- End quote ---
It sounds like you may be an administrator at Hyde with some inside information on real statistics. Can you please share the numbers of actual students who go on to college? I am confused by all the posts here and would like real facts."
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I don't think it's accurate to say that most Hyde kids are lucky to get into a community college. I am not a Hyde supporter and, in fact, would never encourage a parent to refer their kid to Hyde. I think Hyde is a terribly harmful environment.
However, I think it's important to criticize the school fairly and not exaggerate. My impression, based on several years' experience with Hyde, is that many of its GRADUATES do get accepted to 4-year colleges. What happens to these students once they get to college is unclear to me; I have no idea how successful they are or aren't.
But, note that I say that most Hyde GRADUATES seem to get accepted to 4-year colleges. There's lots of evidence that most students who enroll at Hyde don't finish their high school education at Hyde (I challenge any Hyde administrator who's reading this to refute that assertion). The drop-out rate from Hyde (kids that get kicked out of Hyde, run from Hyde, or transfer to some other school or program) is very large. So, a more accurate way to put this is that from all evidence most of the students who start at Hyde don't graduate from Hyde and go on to 4-year colleges from Hyde.
It would be very interesting to analyze the characteristics of the students who actually graduate from Hyde. What percentage of these are children of faculty and staff, rather than the more typical Hyde kid who enters with major emotional and behavioral issues? What percentage are siblings of other Hyde kids, where the first one had major issues but the second one didn't? What percentage of Hyde's graduates are truly "turn around" kids who entered the school (as the vast majority of Hyde students do) with major attitude, behavioral, and mental health issues?
Anonymous:
If a kid doesn't graduate from Hyde, then why would you include those college statistics? Am I missing something? Why would Hyde be responsible for the performance of non-graduates? A more interesting statistic might be the number of kids who begin at four-year institutions but drop out. Would those statistics be very different from that of another boarding school with a similar student body?
If we acknowledge that there is a significant number of kids who can and do academically after Hyde, then is it really fair to say that a good education isn't accessible there?
Anonymous:
Makes you think, doesn't it?
Anonymous:
Quoted by Lars
"I forgot to put in a previous post that prior to joining the public defender's office, I spent a year working in a law firm that specialized in personal injury & medical malpractice. The guys I worked for were assholes, but it was a high powered practice and I learned quite a bit about nasty civil litigation. Frankly, I think that Hyde is very lucky that it haven't gotten nailed in a lawsuit. However, what you need to go forward with one is serious injury or death. If some kid gets killed or kills him or herself there they could be in very big trouble. I suspect they keep a very large liability policy just in case. I believe that they have been extraordinarily negligent over the years. I mean punitive damages kind of negligent (and those are rarely awarded, despite what the tort reform people will tell you). But so far as we know, they've been lucky."
Lars, Is it possible for a group of parents to file a class action suit against Hyde based on the monies they take and refuse to refund when a student and family is forced to leave for various reasons. I know this is a question that depends on many variables, but just curious.
It is a fact that Hyde keeps the entire tuition, ($35,000) after a family has been forced out or have made it impossible to continue at the school. Seems like this is wrong.
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