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Hyde School, Virginia Tech and other musings
Anonymous:
Speaking of blood and marriage, whatever happened to all the other siblings of Laura and Claire? Weren't there like one or two more at Hyde?
Anonymous:
Beth is married with kids nothing to do with Hyde and Debbie Jones is in TX with no ties.
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---Beth is married with kids nothing to do with Hyde and Debbie Jones is in TX with no ties.
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Beth is still beautiful.
Ursus:
I remember Debbie... did she stay very long? For some reason I have a recollection of Hyde not influencing her overly much, but I could be wrong.
Beth I can but barely recollect. I remember her having very long hair and a very nice smile.
Four kids is a lot of tuition!
Anonymous:
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--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---What we now know about Hyde, and this is indisputable, is that the school has a history of accepting quite a few deeply troubled students. Some of these students walk through Hyde's "hallowed" front door with histories of substance abuse, defiant behavior, legal troubles, and very complicated emotional and mental illness issues.
So, what does Hyde do? Hyde foists upon them lectures about character, as if Hyde's superficial, glib and formulaic preachings are going to get at the root of that kind of complex set of challenges. Joe Gauld and his minions know how to cure all these ills.
Give me a break. Hyde takes in these students and doesn't have one iota of bona fide mental health services on its campus. This is a recipe for disaster, and Hyde has had plenty of them. What Virginia Tech has taught us, yet again, is that academic institutions, Hyde included, need to have sophisticated protocols in place. Virginia Tech, at least, has a genuine student mental health center, the way any legitimate, professionally run school would. (There's only so much a school can do to prevent what happened at Virginia Tech.) Hyde, on the other hand, takes in a very high-risk population (unlike Virginia Tech) and has NO THERAPISTS ON STAFF. Is that bizarre, or what?
What will it take for Hyde to learn? Parents, is this the environment you want your child in?
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I don't find it bizarre that Hyde has no therapists on staff. As has been pointed out elsewhere, if therapists are under oath to report psychologically harmful practices by their employers, then it is not in Hyde's best interests to hire them. This forum is a testimonial to Hyde's psychologically harmful practices. Hyde would have to renounce its seminar- and brother's keeper-oriented approach in order to hire therapists. Given the personalities involved, I don't see that happening anytime soon.
Mike
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I think you're right, Mike. Hyde is not likely to admit that many of its students need serious mental health counseling. And no professional mental health therapist would last at Hyde; they'd be caught in a horrible double bind, given the emotional abuse and negligence at Hyde.
So . . . Hyde is making its own bed. Everyone knows that a significant portion of Hyde's student body is troubled. Hyde's own materials acknowledge that. Hyde's narrow-mindedness and arrogance are now biting them where it hurts, in the admissions department. Because of Fornits, word about Hyde's noteworthy and glaring shortcomings is now spreading far and wide. Hyde is getting what it has deserved for a very long time.
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The horribly sad, tragic event at Virginia Tech has alerted the world to the raw violence that can erupt when troubled students are in schools that, for whatever reason, aren't able to meet their emotional and psychiatric needs. This kind of thing can happen anywhere, of course.
Virginia Tech is an institution that serves mostly "normal" students. In contrast, Hyde serves an incredibly large number of troubled students. The grand irony is that Hyde doesn't have a sophisticated cadre of professionals who are trained to deal with troubled students. As a result, every year Hyde has its share of students who completely melt down, run away, use drugs, get tossed out, etc. You'd think that Hyde would get with the program and hire staff who know what the hell they're doing with troubled students. Instead, Hyde persists in its naive belief that the Gauld mantra -- attitude, attitude, attitude . . . -- will be sufficient with a population of students who have an amazing array of emotional disturbances. No wonder Hyde produces horror stories every year. Until recently, these horror stories were kept fairly quiet. Now, the Internet is bringing them to light.
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