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Requesting Parents' Assessment of Hyde School
gary eskow:
HI Gary, that was a quote, taken from an earlier post (Mon Feb 5 2007,12:25 PM), which in turn was quoting Dr. Charles Huffine, found on the web via the following link: http://cafety.org/index.php?option=com_ ... &Itemid=35
thank you!
Anonymous:
And Gary, please be patient.
When I first found this site, it was quite a while before I started posting. Notwithstanding personal fears about the long arms of Hyde (which I suspect are nowhere near as long as our fears would have believe), I also was under the misguided impression that the then current posters were having a personal conversation with one another and there was no way I could just jump in and participate. I would do a lot of reading up on older postings as well as then current ones, and then finally one day I posted as well. It takes a while to get to that point. And it takes a while to get from one or two sentence interjections to paragraphs. And it'll take me a while longer to get to some of the more soul-searing and very very personal stuff, if I dare to.
In the beginning, there was a tremendous need to see my hurt or indignation, or others' hurt and indignation, expressed in print. It was a bit cathartic, and very healing for me. I have read others who post of these same sentiments, having read of others who express the same feeling that they thought were unique to their family's alone. And perhaps that is where it ends for some people. They do not have need for it to go any further. However, I, for one, am very interested in seeing that your article makes it to print. But you must be patient.
I am not entirely sure why this is, but there has been a tremendous increase in traffic at this site. To be sure, the postings have been quite a bit more numerous, and I hear several voices that have not been here before. But the "views" have also increased, exponentially it seems. I just checked, this particular thread that this post is on has been opened and viewed 3827 times. Last Friday night, I believe it was, I remember that it just crossed the 2100 mark. That means that in approximately 4 days, this thread has been opened and viewed 1727 times.
gary eskow:
And Gary, please be patient.
Thank you for your thoughts! I have lots of work and can certainly wait to write the piece. I'm not on a fishing expedition either--- if it happens, it happens.
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---Hyde always stresses that it is after us to develope our "unique potential." In my book, that's a little like Nixon claiming he was only after "Peace" in Vietnam (as opposed to tin and tungsten). Unique potential, yah, but only if it falls in the skinny range accepted by Hyde.
I was always extremely shy, kind of a loner. There's a place in a healthy society for people like me, and it's not a bad place; it's just a different place than the majority of people.
At Hyde these characteristics were branded as antisocial and selfish, even narcissistic, if I remember one person correctly. It didn't help that I liked to excel at academics. That really branded me as a total loser. It really felt as though they considered aptitude as being antithetical to attitude.
There is something wrong with an "educational system" that ostracizes so many. I am sure that there are many other people who were told for equally spurious reasons that they were not "Hyde material."
--- End quote ---
You seemed to have been really damaged by Hyde School. I am very sorry for what you have been through. I wish that Hyde School would read some of these posts and ask themselves if there are changes they could make in order to be more successful. I am afraid they are so arrogant that they believe their methods are 100% correct and that anyone who "fails" at Hyde School "didn't do the process." I wish this school were publicly admonished in the same way they publicly humiliate their students.
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---
--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---Hyde always stresses that it is after us to develope our "unique potential." In my book, that's a little like Nixon claiming he was only after "Peace" in Vietnam (as opposed to tin and tungsten). Unique potential, yah, but only if it falls in the skinny range accepted by Hyde.
I was always extremely shy, kind of a loner. There's a place in a healthy society for people like me, and it's not a bad place; it's just a different place than the majority of people.
At Hyde these characteristics were branded as antisocial and selfish, even narcissistic, if I remember one person correctly. It didn't help that I liked to excel at academics. That really branded me as a total loser. It really felt as though they considered aptitude as being antithetical to attitude.
There is something wrong with an "educational system" that ostracizes so many. I am sure that there are many other people who were told for equally spurious reasons that they were not "Hyde material."
--- End quote ---
You seemed to have been really damaged by Hyde School. I am very sorry for what you have been through. I wish that Hyde School would read some of these posts and ask themselves if there are changes they could make in order to be more successful. I am afraid they are so arrogant that they believe their methods are 100% correct and that anyone who "fails" at Hyde School "didn't do the process." I wish this school were publicly admonished in the same way they publicly humiliate their students.
--- End quote ---
To the contrary, I'm getting a sense that Hyde is taking a harder line with introverts. For example, back in the seventies, when I was there, there was no mandatory public singing. This new requirement seems to be aimed right at the introverts.
I also disagree that introverts are more damaged by Hyde than others. In fact, I would argue the opposite. Introverts pose perhaps the greatest threat to Hyde. These solitary individuals are unlikely to comply with the many demands that are placed on them to be extroverts. Speaking for myself, I did not say much in seminar. I was not confrontational. I did not inform on others. I did not let laggards in class or on the sports field pass me. In short, my introverted ways held me back from assimilating. A negative theology, my Hyde experience. It can only be defined by what it was not. In the short-term it was hard; I caught a lot of flak at Hyde. However, I believe my passive resistance was the optimal long-term strategy. I recovered from Hyde more easily than did some others I know who had relinguished their rationality and decision-making processes to the school. If I did not grow for two years, at least I did not regress to the point of losing my identity to that of the group.
Mike
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