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Requesting Parents' Assessment of Hyde School
Anonymous:
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--- Quote from: ""Guest"" --- I am sure he has done well for himself. He was a smart guy. Look at how he manuvered himself into the headmasters job, moved Joe aside, brought in an expert to say Joe had to go then had the old man dumped. It was all very shrewed. The question I have is "Why" It makes no sense to me. Did he have some messianic view of himself? OR was he like that character in the movie "In the Company of Men" He did it as a game to see it he could?
A lot of people from back then love him still. I am not one of them. I just find it ironic that some one that would preach such lofty sermons would end up doing something so quodidian as the front man for a commuter school.
emil
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Emil,
Ed Legg was a Harvard grad, a football star with a law degree, who ended up in a high school and had to teach the likes of us. In that context his revolutionary fervor, political climbing, and prophecies of failure for many a poor boy and girl were probably just his way of dealing (badly) with his own sense of failure, and it's best that he is out of there and unable to influence young adults. My problem with Ed is his complicity. Although his hands were clean of the abuses that were taking place all around him, as headmaster he was in it up to his ears.
On a personal level, I liked the guy. I admired his mind, he taught the only worthwhile course in the school, and he didn't begrudge me a college recommendation that started me off on a good academic footing.
I agree that we should maintain the focus on Hyde, but allow me to share an anecdote about Ed. Three-eyed toad was very potent acid, sold to me by Owlsley, the sound engineer of the Grateful Dead, and each toad had to be cut into at least sixteen parts. Not knowing this, my weird roommate and his epileptic friend stole and ingested an entire toad each. Well, the epileptic went into unending spastic seizures, and my roommate ran around the Outhouse in the middle of the night trying to find a way to commit suicide, and both of them spent a week in hospital, before their parents withdrew them. Figuring the gig was up, I walked over to Ed's office the next day to turn myself in. As I went to pull the acid out of my pocket, he said, "Stop, Michael, or I'll be an accomplice and have to call the police.'' It was that JD kicking in. He didn't put me on work crew, and trusted me to dispose of the acid. He was pretty cool about it.
Fifth, I agree with you 100 percent --- except that part that I belonged at Hyde. I owe my sanity to that acid.
Mike
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David Van A****** too funny. I had a whole toad, I was fine
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---I came across some interesting public informations regarding Hyde 990 Tax return for Bath - Woodstock - and DC
it is quite informative, if any of you have accounting background you could have fun finding the loopholes and possibly build a case against the corruption.
go to www.guidestar.org
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from one of GuideStar's info pages:
"Note: financial pages are viewable only by GuideStar Premium subscribers."
Anonymous:
--- Quote ---I agree that we should maintain the focus on Hyde, but allow me to share an anecdote about Ed. Three-eyed toad was very potent acid, sold to me by Owlsley, the sound engineer of the Grateful Dead, and each toad had to be cut into at least sixteen parts. Not knowing this, my weird roommate and his epileptic friend stole and ingested an entire toad each. Well, the epileptic went into unending spastic seizures, and my roommate ran around the Outhouse in the middle of the night trying to find a way to commit suicide, and both of them spent a week in hospital, before their parents withdrew them. Figuring the gig was up, I walked over to Ed's office the next day to turn myself in. As I went to pull the acid out of my pocket, he said, "Stop, Michael, or I'll be an accomplice and have to call the police.'' It was that JD kicking in. He didn't put me on work crew, and trusted me to dispose of the acid. He was pretty cool about it.
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Mike, you are a GUY. Ed liked and related to GUYS. Females were a foreign entity to him, and if he could have had his way, he would probably have preferred that Hyde never started admitting them. His behavior towards the girls was cold, distant, capricious, and borderline abusive. I don't know if he just couldn't understand them, or if he really is a closet masogynist. Case in point: that whole fat-fightling-frenzy recently related here. Oh, and what about when that whole Thurrell rape came to light? Did he call the police then? No, he had the girl return to school and then expelled her part way through. Tsk, tsk, tsk.
BTW, I'm glad you and Emil hooked up! :D
Anonymous:
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--- Quote ---I agree that we should maintain the focus on Hyde, but allow me to share an anecdote about Ed. Three-eyed toad was very potent acid, sold to me by Owlsley, the sound engineer of the Grateful Dead, and each toad had to be cut into at least sixteen parts. Not knowing this, my weird roommate and his epileptic friend stole and ingested an entire toad each. Well, the epileptic went into unending spastic seizures, and my roommate ran around the Outhouse in the middle of the night trying to find a way to commit suicide, and both of them spent a week in hospital, before their parents withdrew them. Figuring the gig was up, I walked over to Ed's office the next day to turn myself in. As I went to pull the acid out of my pocket, he said, "Stop, Michael, or I'll be an accomplice and have to call the police.'' It was that JD kicking in. He didn't put me on work crew, and trusted me to dispose of the acid. He was pretty cool about it.
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Mike, you are a GUY. Ed liked and related to GUYS. Females were a foreign entity to him, and if he could have had his way, he would probably have preferred that Hyde never started admitting them. His behavior towards the girls was cold, distant, capricious, and borderline abusive. I don't know if he just couldn't understand them, or if he really is a closet masogynist. Case in point: that whole fat-fightling-frenzy recently related here. Oh, and what about when that whole Thurrell rape came to light? Did he call the police then? No, he had the girl return to school and then expelled her part way through. Tsk, tsk, tsk.
BTW, I'm glad you and Emil hooked up! :D
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Sounds like this guy Ed had issues with the female sex. Probably stems from his own relationship with his mom. Have any of you tried to get in touch with him in recent years? Do you know where he is or what he is doing?
As far as how he handled a rape, not much different than the Hyde today. Same way of dealing with things, but 30 years later
Anonymous:
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