Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > Hyde Schools
History question
Anonymous:
Sue,
You are incorrect. Joe and Ed did not leave at the same time.
Anonymous:
Laurie Gauld Hurd, Malcolm Gauld, and Ken Grant were also on staff in the late 1970's.
Anonymous:
So who left first and how did it happen?
Sue Doenym
Anonymous:
Joe left first.
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---Joe left first.
--- End quote ---
I'm a former student from the early 1970s. I obviously wasn't there at the time, but from what I heard from students who were, Ed engineered Joe's departure in a sort of coup d'état. This quickly backfired and the whole place imploded with a professional headmaster brought in and the Hyde philosophy jettisoned.
My personal view was always that Joe was absolutely crackers with an enormous ego, but sincere. Ed Legg was highly intelligent, but power hungry, arrogant and insincere.
Subsequently, I worked in Hong Kong in early 1985 with a recent college graduate from Bowdoin, small world, who's mother was brought in by the Board in the early 1980s to help evaluate Hyde School. Her surname was Ring and I believe she was a professor of education at Bowdoin. In any event, as I recall from several conversations with her daughter this individual spent a great deal of time interviewing Joe and Ed. She and the board concluded that Hyde was enormously destructive and if it wasn't shut down then Joe had to to go. She viewed him as unstable and thought the Hyde environment was extremely unhealthy for children of any description.
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