Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > Hyde Schools
Hyde is definately reading this board
Anonymous:
--- Quote ---On 2005-12-01 22:23:00, Anonymous wrote:
"Yes exactly and each "member" was expected to send out a certain many invitations to this little event held in one of the members homes. It might have been five or ten invitations required, I don't recall. I felt like I was a hari krishna who was sent out to recruit more members!! It was a very awkward situation to be put in. We were paying over $30,000 per year, on top of this we were expected to donate for the annual fundraising, and then we were asked to recruit more families for them. Does anyone else think this is odd for a "boarding school?""
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I've never been associated with a school that had to push so hard to bring in new students. Hyde's aggressive recruitment and marketing strategies provide additional evidence that the school cannot depend entirely on its reputation to replenish the supply of incoming students. Hyde has become increasingly controversial and there are so many concerns floating around about mistreatment of students and families at Hyde that the school is probably worried about enrollments. Organizations that market themselves as aggressively as Hyde does, and that push currently enrolled families to sponsor coffees and bring in potential families, tend to be organizations that are nervous about their enrollments. I have a funny feeling that Hyde's increasingly negative reputation, fueled to some extent by this website, will lead to even more hand wringing at the school and more aggressive marketing tactics. It will be interesting to see if there's evidence of this at the next family weekend when the masses are gathered in the auditorium for the usual "let's praise Hyde" testimonials.
tommyfromhyde1:
There are other schools and programs that market like this. WWASP, acording to what I've seen on the 'net, PAYS parents for referals. And I think that in this respect scAmway is a better metaphor than the Hare Krishnas.
say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
--Kurt Vonnegut, American author
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Anonymous:
--- Quote ---On 2005-12-02 11:54:00, tommyfromhyde1 wrote:
"There are other schools and programs that market like this. WWASP, acording to what I've seen on the 'net, PAYS parents for referals. And I think that in this respect scAmway is a better metaphor than the Hare Krishnas.
say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
--Kurt Vonnegut, American author
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Ah, yes. I don't think Hyde would want to be associated with WWASPS (the World Wide Association of Speciality Schools). That's the organization that has had:
-- schools closed down and sued because of alleged abuses: http://www.helpyourteens.com/news/impor ... wasps.html
-- to refund tuition money because of misrepresentations to parents: http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,600156973,00.html
Anonymous:
The link for the tuition refund lawsuit does not work. Can you provide this again or direct us in another way?
This sure would have been helpful about a year ago as there was total misrepresentation when my son was admitted!
Anonymous:
--- Quote ---On 2005-12-02 14:52:00, Anonymous wrote:
"The link for the tuition refund lawsuit does not work. Can you provide this again or direct us in another way?
This sure would have been helpful about a year ago as there was total misrepresentation when my son was admitted!"
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Sorry about the dead link. I'm not sure why it didn't work. I just found several articles on the tuition lawsuit listed on this other website. I hope this works: http://www.strugglingteens.com/news/WWASParticles.html
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