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Hyde School, Virginia Tech and other musings
Ursus:
I was on a website recently, the result of some search; I didn't find what I was looking for so I can't even remember why I was there... It was some kind of reunion-facilitating site for Maine high schools. One of those heavily advertisement-laden numbers.
I clicked on Hyde... just the address, contact phone number for the school plus website link showed in the relevant box. The rest of the page was covered with ads for military schools, troubled teen sites, other "therapeutic boarding schools," hotlines, etc.
I checked out a few of the other schools, both public as well as private. The advertisements for these schools were for "find your old friends" type of sites, etc. Nothing at all like Hyde's. Curious.
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: ""Ursus"" ---I was on a website recently, the result of some search; I didn't find what I was looking for so I can't even remember why I was there... It was some kind of reunion-facilitating site for Maine high schools. One of those heavily advertisement-laden numbers.
I clicked on Hyde... just the address, contact phone number for the school plus website link showed in the relevant box. The rest of the page was covered with ads for military schools, troubled teen sites, other "therapeutic boarding schools," hotlines, etc.
I checked out a few of the other schools, both public as well as private. The advertisements for these schools were for "find your old friends" type of sites, etc. Nothing at all like Hyde's. Curious.
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I have said all along that Hyde needs to figure out who they want to be and then stick to it and advertise accordingly. On one hand they want troubled kids to enroll, and on the other hand they are saying they are a prep school with character education therefore accepting kids who are basically good kids but might need a little motivation. These "good kids" are then exposed to some pretty rough characters! This is dishonesty at it's best Hyde!! You are trying to rake in the dough without any regard to the kids whose lives you damage!
Ursus:
--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---I have said all along that Hyde needs to figure out who they want to be and then stick to it and advertise accordingly. On one hand they want troubled kids to enroll, and on the other hand they are saying they are a prep school with character education therefore accepting kids who are basically good kids but might need a little motivation.
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I hate to say it, but I think they really do want it that way. Either population, by itself, is not going to make the kind of community they want. Each has something to offer the other, and the mix is potentially more than the sum.
Kind of like what Charles Dederich was trying to do with Synanon. He started out in AA, ran into some authority and methodology issues there, so struck out on his own, taking in drug addicts as well as alcoholics. By and by he also started taking in "Straight Gamers," i.e., folks with no history of alcohol or drug problems but who were attracted to the idealism of the community. The mix made for the incredibly vibrant and creative community Synanon was in its heyday.
It didn't last. It depended too much on the vision and charisma of a sole person, a fallible human, as are we all. Control issues developed, and core values were compromised, ultimately taking down the whole shebang.
Anonymous:
--- Quote ---Despite the large number of problem children, there are no psychologists on the school's staff, because Hyde teachers prefer to "use our gut feelings." When that approach fails, Gauld has referred students to Richard Evans, a psychiatrist in Brunswick, Me. Like many parents of Hyde students, Evans is willing to give the school the benefit of the doubt. Says he: "Frankly, I'm puzzled. But ordinary methods don't work with the kinds of kids going to Hyde. The school does make a real effort to reach these children. It is doing something no one else is willing to do."
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So, this from that old Time article. Did anybody ever SEE this guy? He was a friggen TRUSTEE for crying out loud. "The kinds of kids" - what kinds of kids? Most of the kids were pretty NORMAL if you ask me (maybe some badasses sure).
Anonymous:
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--- Quote ---Despite the large number of problem children, there are no psychologists on the school's staff, because Hyde teachers prefer to "use our gut feelings." When that approach fails, Gauld has referred students to Richard Evans, a psychiatrist in Brunswick, Me. Like many parents of Hyde students, Evans is willing to give the school the benefit of the doubt. Says he: "Frankly, I'm puzzled. But ordinary methods don't work with the kinds of kids going to Hyde. The school does make a real effort to reach these children. It is doing something no one else is willing to do."
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So, this from that old Time article. Did anybody ever SEE this guy? He was a friggen TRUSTEE for crying out loud. "The kinds of kids" - what kinds of kids? Most of the kids were pretty NORMAL if you ask me (maybe some badasses sure).
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Which came 1st? Being a trustee, or being the invisible psychiatrist?
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