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Lawsuit against Hidden Lake Academy should make Hyde nervous
Anonymous:
This recent lawsuit against Hidden Lake Academy should make Hyde School very nervous. Hyde would likely hide behind their usual claim that "technically we're not a therapeutic boarding school." Yeah, right. Hyde accepts many of the same kinds of kids that Hidden Lake accepts. Hyde pretends it's not a therapeutic boarding school. One of these days someone will take Hyde to task in court for a wide variety of abuses and incompetence.
Here's information on the lawsuit: http://www.bergermontague.com/case-summary.cfm?id=155
Here's the actual court complaint: http://www.bergermontague.com/pdfs/Hidd ... plaint.pdf
It's instructive to think about some of the stuff that goes on at Hyde as you read through this legal complaint.
Ursus:
I've always been struck by the similarities between Hyde and Hidden Lake. Certainly there are some differences, but just as certainly they are birds of a similar feather.
--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---Hyde would likely hide behind their usual claim that "technically we're not a therapeutic boarding school." Yeah, right. Hyde accepts many of the same kinds of kids that Hidden Lake accepts.
--- End quote ---
Hyde advertises on Lon Woodbury's site Struggling Teens, and pretty much has for as long as he's been in business (as an Educational Consultant). There really aren't any "normal" boarding schools on that site; its market is the Troubled Teen Industry.
Hyde wants to claim that it is no TBS. That's because it doesn't want to be held to the kind of scrutiny, regulations, and standards in that industry. But Hyde is, in fact, a Therapeutic Boarding School, regardless of whatever Hyde-specific term (cult lingo) they want to attach to it.
I highly recommend the pdf in the above link (court complaint). Despite it's being 70 pages, it is a surprisingly easy read.
Ursus:
--- Quote ---Hyde advertises on Lon Woodbury's site Struggling Teens, and pretty much has for as long as he's been in business (as an Educational Consultant).
--- End quote ---
Any former parents out there care to chime in? How and where did you hear about Hyde?
I am guessing that much if not most of the recruitment still works via the Amway model (those infernal teas). But maybe I'm wrong. I would love to hear from someone who found out about the place via another route.
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: ""Ursus"" ---
--- Quote ---Hyde advertises on Lon Woodbury's site Struggling Teens, and pretty much has for as long as he's been in business (as an Educational Consultant).
--- End quote ---
Any former parents out there care to chime in? How and where did you hear about Hyde?
I am guessing that much if not most of the recruitment still works via the Amway model (those infernal teas). But maybe I'm wrong. I would love to hear from someone who found out about the place via another route.
--- End quote ---
Our kid's former teacher (the school year before Hyde) had a neighbor whose kid went to Hyde. The teacher said she heard that Hyde accepts kids who have some defiance issues and organizes its program around core values and character education. The rhetoric sounded good; we liked the presumed emphasis on values and character education. Unfortunately we had no idea what we were getting into. It took us about 10 weeks to figure out that Hyde is appallingly incompetent, arrogant, and hypocritical. We were astonished, to put it mildly, that Hyde survives. Once we detected the sick nature of the Hyde environment, we immediately planned our escape. During the course of our Hyde saga we met many parents who hated Hyde as much as we did but decided they had to keep their mouths shut and get through the year.
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: ""Ursus"" ---I've always been struck by the similarities between Hyde and Hidden Lake. Certainly there are some differences, but just as certainly they are birds of a similar feather.
--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---Hyde would likely hide behind their usual claim that "technically we're not a therapeutic boarding school." Yeah, right. Hyde accepts many of the same kinds of kids that Hidden Lake accepts.
--- End quote ---
Hyde advertises on Lon Woodbury's site Struggling Teens, and pretty much has for as long as he's been in business (as an Educational Consultant). There really aren't any "normal" boarding schools on that site; its market is the Troubled Teen Industry.
Hyde wants to claim that it is no TBS. That's because it doesn't want to be held to the kind of scrutiny, regulations, and standards in that industry. But Hyde is, in fact, a Therapeutic Boarding School, regardless of whatever Hyde-specific term (cult lingo) they want to attach to it.
I highly recommend the pdf in the above link (court complaint). Despite it's being 70 pages, it is a surprisingly easy read.
--- End quote ---
I think you're probably right that Hyde doesn't call itself at therapeutic boarding school so that it won't be held to the standards typically associated with TBS's. Hyde is very slick in the way that it flies below radar. So much for Hyde's belief in truth. Hah!
P.S. I'm not sure Hyde actually advertises on Lon Woodbury's site.
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