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Character First: The Hyde School Way and Why It Works
Anonymous:
what I find bizarre is this whole truth over harmony concept anyway. Really this is just phychobabble for the idea that you can be as rude as you want and the world wants to hear it and that spilling your guts to anyone who will listen is a good thing.
How does this work in the real world anyway? Does your average employer want to hear that you find him pompous or that you are taking the job for the money because you are a corporate whore? Does your fiance's conservative family who he is close to really wanna know about your previous struggle with alcohol addiction or how you overcame childhood abuse when you first meet them for dinner?
Some of these ideas if practiced in mainstream society would make a person a social outcast. For my money I would rather a kid get an education which focuses on the 3 rs and which emphasises "character" by encouraging community service and a good range of sports and perhaps if you are the old fashioned type emphasises good manners and social confidence.
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---what I find bizarre is this whole truth over harmony concept anyway. Really this is just phychobabble for the idea that you can be as rude as you want and the world wants to hear it and that spilling your guts to anyone who will listen is a good thing.
How does this work in the real world anyway? Does your average employer want to hear that you find him pompous or that you are taking the job for the money because you are a corporate whore? Does your fiance's conservative family who he is close to really wanna know about your previous struggle with alcohol addiction or how you overcame childhood abuse when you first meet them for dinner?
Some of these ideas if practiced in mainstream society would make a person a social outcast. For my money I would rather a kid get an education which focuses on the 3 rs and which emphasises "character" by encouraging community service and a good range of sports and perhaps if you are the old fashioned type emphasises good manners and social confidence.
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ALL TOO TRUE.
Anonymous:
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--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---what I find bizarre is this whole truth over harmony concept anyway. Really this is just phychobabble for the idea that you can be as rude as you want and the world wants to hear it and that spilling your guts to anyone who will listen is a good thing.
How does this work in the real world anyway? Does your average employer want to hear that you find him pompous or that you are taking the job for the money because you are a corporate whore? Does your fiance's conservative family who he is close to really wanna know about your previous struggle with alcohol addiction or how you overcame childhood abuse when you first meet them for dinner?
Some of these ideas if practiced in mainstream society would make a person a social outcast. For my money I would rather a kid get an education which focuses on the 3 rs and which emphasises "character" by encouraging community service and a good range of sports and perhaps if you are the old fashioned type emphasises good manners and social confidence.
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ALL TOO TRUE.
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I completely agree. All these "programs" are the same. Hyde calls itself a character based education but Hyde is just like the rest. I personally believe that it is unhealthy for young kids to hear some of the things Hyde encourages parents to divulge in these seminars. Any professional psychologist or psychiatrist would agree with this. Kids do not and should not hear about a mother 's trauma of finding her Mother hanging by a rope in the basement of their home. They also should not be exposed to hearing experiences of family rape.
This and more is experienced by all family members, no matter how old, when attending family weekends at Hyde. This is a SICK environment and I feel sorry for any of you who are sucked into this in the name of "character."
Oz girl:
I have a uqestion on this score. Having visited the Hyde Website, it does not present itself so much a therapeudic as sort of slightly montessoriesque, in that it believes education is more a hands on sort of thing that goes beyond the classroom. it also talks about character education. A lot of private religious schools are also big on character education in that they believe in discussing morality as central to education and they encourage community service
If I were a garden variety parent who briefly glanced at the Hyde site, I would potentially have it on the list. Particularly if i wanted this idea of morality and character but in a secular context or if my kid was not the purely academic type.
Are there many parents who enrol their kid at Hyde on this premise and then find out that there is more to it than meets the eye? Or is a visit to the school enough to make this clear?
Anonymous:
The postulated ideals are most laudable; certainly that was the clincher in my case. But before your initial interview is over, you're already sucked in by the insinuation that you are running away from a challenge by not attending, or that (you or) your goals are shallower/more superficial, more materialistic, or more primitive than theirs...
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