Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > Hyde Schools
My time at Hyde
Anonymous:
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--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---I agree...I too needed a change and Hyde School was the place where I was "redirected". I don't know that it had to be that place, perhaps another would have sufficed. And I will never know if I am sucessful because of the place or inspite ot if. But, I will say that I do not look back fondly on those years like other nostalgic ex-high schoolers tend to do. The same as one would not look back fondly on a stint in rehab or a hospital admission. ..5th
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It is hard to tell what part of Hyde is part of me. A dime store guru once told me "your path is your path" I am glad I went to Hyde. I am glad for all the little oddities of my life. I would not trade going to Hyde for anything. It was a unique experience. It was a part of how I got to where I am now.
With that said, Hyde has warts all over it. That does not mean you can not profit from the experience, or thrive from it. The reality is that Hyde fucked ( OMG a potty word) some people up. The reality is the some people realty do need professional help and the atmosphere is just not conducive to healing for certain types of conditions, say drug induced psychosis from amphetamine use for example. The stazi like "most dynamic peer environment" really does not help when you are struggling with paranoia. Having a lummox with a bad comb over, worse golf pant and a Mr Rogers cardigan scream at you from a stage really did not do a lot for me. At that point in my life I was thinking "another fucked up adult to deal with." There were some positive experiences. I am afraid many of them were accidental, and not part of the grand character education plan if one ever existed.
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You have made a key point: The "good" that happened to you at Hyde was often accidental and had nothing to do with Hyde's oversized, exaggerated rhetoric about character education. Some good stuff happened to you while you were at Hyde, but not BECAUSE of Hyde. I agree with you that Hyde is exactly the wrong environment for many of its students, and that some of the Hyde staff are downright embarrassing.
Anonymous:
Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction. For My own sake, for My own sake, I will do it; for how should My name be profaned? And I will not give My glory to another. Listen to Me, O Jacob, and Israel, My called: I am He, I am the First, I am also the Last. Indeed My hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and My right hand has stretched out the heavens; when I call to them, they stand up together.
Isaiah 48 one 'em verses in the one of the mistranslations
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---
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--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---I agree...I too needed a change and Hyde School was the place where I was "redirected". I don't know that it had to be that place, perhaps another would have sufficed. And I will never know if I am sucessful because of the place or inspite ot if. But, I will say that I do not look back fondly on those years like other nostalgic ex-high schoolers tend to do. The same as one would not look back fondly on a stint in rehab or a hospital admission. ..5th
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It is hard to tell what part of Hyde is part of me. A dime store guru once told me "your path is your path" I am glad I went to Hyde. I am glad for all the little oddities of my life. I would not trade going to Hyde for anything. It was a unique experience. It was a part of how I got to where I am now.
With that said, Hyde has warts all over it. That does not mean you can not profit from the experience, or thrive from it. The reality is that Hyde fucked ( OMG a potty word) some people up. The reality is the some people realty do need professional help and the atmosphere is just not conducive to healing for certain types of conditions, say drug induced psychosis from amphetamine use for example. The stazi like "most dynamic peer environment" really does not help when you are struggling with paranoia. Having a lummox with a bad comb over, worse golf pant and a Mr Rogers cardigan scream at you from a stage really did not do a lot for me. At that point in my life I was thinking "another fucked up adult to deal with." There were some positive experiences. I am afraid many of them were accidental, and not part of the grand character education plan if one ever existed.
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You have made a key point: The "good" that happened to you at Hyde was often accidental and had nothing to do with Hyde's oversized, exaggerated rhetoric about character education. Some good stuff happened to you while you were at Hyde, but not BECAUSE of Hyde. I agree with you that Hyde is exactly the wrong environment for many of its students, and that some of the Hyde staff are downright embarrassing.
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The rhetoric was oversized because it was filled with a whole lot of hot air.
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---It's fine to publicize success stories... but Hyde also should be honest and admit its unbelievable shortcomings and failures.
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No there's a fine example of a fat chance in Hell. Hyde is about as honest as WC Fields is skinny.
Anonymous:
Sorry, meant to say "Now there's a fine example..."
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