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Lawsuits and complaints against Hyde School?
Anonymous:
Looks like Hyde School has some pretty deep issues themselves based on these comments!!
Anonymous:
--- Quote ---On 2006-05-04 07:15:00, Anonymous wrote:
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On 2006-05-04 03:29:00, Anonymous wrote:
"I don't understand what you mean by "Lousy Publicity"?
The only bad stuff I'm seeing is on this little website, and people take this with a grain of salt!"
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There's more bad publicity about Hyde than this website. I've talked with about a dozen parents (maybe more, I haven't counted precisely) whose educational consultants won't place kids with Hyde and are looking for something else. I've heard about at least 2 lawyers who have Hyde in their cross hairs. I'm pretty sure NEASC has investigated Hyde and has insisted on major changes there (I don't know all the details, but this is pretty common knowledge). There's also some very negative stuff about Hyde on other websites. "
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OK so the claim was some negative stuff on other web sites. Yes you have found "some," negative stuff but not much. the URLs would be nice.
Sue
Anonymous:
Don't be so quick to denigrate Amazon book reviews. I'm a disgruntled parent of a former Woodstock student and the author of one of the current Amazon reviews (not one of the ones quoted). My current review is my second--the first, which was far more critical of the school, was removed by Amazon at the same time that it removed a bunch of other anti-Hyde reviews. Obviously the pro-Hyde people had complained. At the time I posted my reviews, this forum did not exist and the only other information available on the net about Hyde was the glowing PR-type stuff. Amazon reviews may not have the widest readership, but some people do see them. If nothing else, seeing other parents with legitimate complaints about the school made me feel less alone.
As for our experience with Hyde, the year my son spent at the Woodstock campus was one of the worst of our lives. The parent programs and discovery groups were sessions of abuse and ridicule if you didn't spout the party line, however inane and amateurish it might be. A one-on-one session with Joe Gauld was treated like an audience with the Pope. Everyone who has commented about the intense pressure that Hyde places on students and parents to conform is absolutely right. If you ask questions or disagree with the school, you're made to feel that you're being too selfish to do right by your kid. They say, "If the shoe fits, wear it." Well, there are a lot of people wearing ill-fitting shoes at Hyde, and a lot more shoes scattered on the ground.
The sad thing is that I bought into the party line to the point of almost sending my son back for a second year. The only thing that saved him was the fact that one of the star seniors in our discovery group got busted for drugs and shoplifting a few weeks after Spring Fling. She had been a True Hyde Success Story. She may have been talking the talk but she sure wasn'twalking the walk. In the end, the Emperor had no clothes.
Anonymous:
I don't think denegration was offered. Just the fact that there is not a lot of stuff out there.
South Dakota
Anonymous:
--- Quote ---On 2006-05-11 15:10:00, Anonymous wrote:
"Don't be so quick to denigrate Amazon book reviews. I'm a disgruntled parent of a former Woodstock student and the author of one of the current Amazon reviews (not one of the ones quoted). My current review is my second--the first, which was far more critical of the school, was removed by Amazon at the same time that it removed a bunch of other anti-Hyde reviews. Obviously the pro-Hyde people had complained. At the time I posted my reviews, this forum did not exist and the only other information available on the net about Hyde was the glowing PR-type stuff. Amazon reviews may not have the widest readership, but some people do see them. If nothing else, seeing other parents with legitimate complaints about the school made me feel less alone.
As for our experience with Hyde, the year my son spent at the Woodstock campus was one of the worst of our lives. The parent programs and discovery groups were sessions of abuse and ridicule if you didn't spout the party line, however inane and amateurish it might be. A one-on-one session with Joe Gauld was treated like an audience with the Pope. Everyone who has commented about the intense pressure that Hyde places on students and parents to conform is absolutely right. If you ask questions or disagree with the school, you're made to feel that you're being too selfish to do right by your kid. They say, "If the shoe fits, wear it." Well, there are a lot of people wearing ill-fitting shoes at Hyde, and a lot more shoes scattered on the ground.
The sad thing is that I bought into the party line to the point of almost sending my son back for a second year. The only thing that saved him was the fact that one of the star seniors in our discovery group got busted for drugs and shoplifting a few weeks after Spring Fling. She had been a True Hyde Success Story. She may have been talking the talk but she sure wasn'twalking the walk. In the end, the Emperor had no clothes."
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I can relate to what you are saying. One of the students highlighted in the Woodstock newletter about four years ago went on to graduate and do absolutely nothing up until now! He was also one of Hyde's success stories! If being the kind of kid who has done absolutely nothing for four years is a success story then we are all in trouble. No college, no steady job, not a thing to show for that degree. And what is it that Hyde advertises???? 100% of kids enroll in a four year school....hmmm...Another graduate from the same year has also gone on to do nothing other than living off of Mommy and Daddy's inheritance. I haven't kept up with everyone in my class, but I know a few more who dropped out of college or never went.
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