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hyde bath salary report sent to students emails
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WHERE IS THE TRUTH, HYDE????
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It is buried out back in one of those 6x6x6 pits we used to dig.
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Hyde seems to have turned hypocrisy into a fine art form. I'm amazed at Hyde's ability to grant enormous salaries to its top administrators and then hit up parents, who are already paying enormous fees, for so-called "fair share" money to keep Hyde in the black.
This kind of nonsense seems to be emblematic of Hyde's bizarre form of (forgive me while I gag) "character education." Perhaps I've misunderstood the term all these years. I always thought Hyde claimed to deliver education focused on character development. Now I realize that Hyde runs an educational enterprise operated by a bunch of bizarre characters. Silly me; I had given Hyde the benefit of the doubt. Now I doubt there's any benefit (to Hyde).
What was that line about a sucker being born every minute? Sadly, a bunch of us got "sucked into" Hyde. Fortunately, many of us have seen the errors of our ways and are doing our best to spread the word about Hyde far and wide.
Anonymous:
where does it say how much joey g makes a year? or the woodstock headmaster?
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--- Quote from: ""bill procida"" ---where does it say how much joey g makes a year? or the woodstock headmaster?
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I would have to go back and look again. It gets a little confusing because Hyde has many corporations set up and they seem to play around with the accounting like most people would do in order to make the statements look the way they want them to. There is Hyde Woodstock, Hyde DC, Hyde Bath and Hyde Foundation. If I am not mistaken Joey G might be under Hyde DC and like you I noticed the headmaster at Woodstock is not listed although Duncan was listed under something else. The figures are not made up. They are listed right there on the 990's.
Ursus:
--- Quote from: ""bill procida"" ---where does it say how much joey g makes a year? or the woodstock headmaster?
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This is the same report that was discussed recently; namely, the tax filings from 2005 (for the academic year 2004). Previous discussion is in this thread: http://wwf.fornits.com/viewtopic.php?t=20659
Summary of the pertinent total compensation package is as follows (salary+employee benefits package):
* Kenneth Grant, Exec Director: $93,611 ($89,500+13,111)
* Joseph Gauld, Founder: $83,708 ($75,000+8,708)
* Claire Grant, Assistant Director: $76,239 ($72,300+3,939)
* Laura Gauld, Exec Director: $90,979 ($78,000+12,979)
* Lavoe Davis, Exec Director: $87,623 ($80,000+7,623)
* Number of additional employees paid over $50,000 is noted as 2 (no details).
* Malcolm Gauld, President: $297,653 ($238,276+59,387)
* Laurie Hurd, Headmaster: $122,023 ($108,315+13,708)
* Robert Pauline, CFO: $112,451 ($99,500+12,951)Not noted in the above is the existence of expense accounts. I'm not sure where one would find that info on the 990.
I am no expert at judging this. Certainly, it is nowhere near St. Paul's Prep School in terms of outrageousness. But I find it very much NOT in keeping with a school that professes an allegedly egalitarian and character-based approach to "changing the face of American education," not to mention the incessant pressure put on parents -- many of whom are already financially strained by the tuition alone -- to give more, more, more. And I also find it a bit unsavory that most of these people are all married or related to one another, making it an incredible concentration of wealth.
It is noteworthy to compare these figures to Berwick Academy, also in Maine, and perhaps ironically (perhaps not) where Joe taught for 2-3 years (why so little time?) prior to founding Hyde. Despite being a Country Day School, at which school heads are ordinarily paid higher salaries due to the lack of room and board in the whole compensation package, Berwick's current headmaster makes approximately half of what Malcolm makes, and has heretofore often refused salary increases, presumably in order to keep the school costs down.
According to a recent Washington Post article,
--- Quote ---The average annual base salary for private school heads across the country in 2006-07 was $167,000, according to the National Association of Independent Schools.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... v=hcmodule
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An earlier article (2003) in a Maine paper cites a similar figure:
--- Quote ---The NAIS, which includes both Berwick Academy and Phillips Exeter Academy, calculates average salaries for private school principals. NAIS spokeswoman Myra McGovern said the highest headmaster's salary reported for the 2002-03 school year was $325,000. The median salaries are $143,050 for day school headmasters and $100,000 for boarding schools. The middle 50 percent of salaries range from $110,513 to $181,186. http://www.seacoastonline.com/2003news/ ... /48142.htm
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-Urs
Ursus:
Comments have been frequently made on this forum as to the quality and experience of the teaching staff, often associated with the observation that the pay scale for these professionals is often rather low at Hyde. (In defense of at least some of the teaching staff, I would like to interject that I imagine that putting together a rigorous academic schedule is probably somewhat difficult when one has to devote a majority of time and energy into a "character curriculum.")
I am curious, how does Hyde measure up vis-a-vie pay scale for support staff, e.g., kitchen personnel, custodians, secretaries, grounds crew, etc.? Do these people even make a living wage?
Does it not appear as though there is a glaring disparity between the compensation rates of upper administrators versus the teaching staff and the rank and file?
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