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Joe Gauld... on Education
Anonymous:
--- Quote ---Malcolm Gauld -- the founder's son and the current headmaster -- describes taking over the Hyde women's soccer program in the mid-1980s: "The program was in shambles. The girls not only did not want to play soccer but held great disdain for Hyde's mandatory sports policy." At the first practice, he called the girls together and said:
Okay, I know that many of you would prefer not to be out here. I'm not going to waste my time explaining why this will be good for you or why I think you could begin to develop a love for soccer or athletics. For the next two months, we are simply going to do the things that soccer players do. What do soccer players do? They show up on time. They bring their cleats and leave their purses at home. All of you will be expected to wear special Hyde soccer T-shirts, which I will order. In short, I expect you to behave like soccer players and keep your attention on task while you're out here on the field.[/list]
Although initially he met with great resistance, the coach held them accountable for the motions of responsibility he had outlined. After several weeks, a group of girls made the step from the Motions to the Efforts phase, displaying a positive attitude and a greater work ethic at practices. At the end of the season, three girls asked to join a local winter league -- they wanted to move up to the Excellence phase. The following season, the three players at the Excellence level served as exemplars for the rest of the team, and a group of Effort-level girls wanted to compete for starting positions. Soon, 90 percent of the players displayed a norm of consistent effort and hard work. This was the beginning of a tradition of championship soccer teams.
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This is retarded. Im sure the girls tried their best. Im sure they got their act together and made a great team. But its about as simple as you can tell it, and it misses a lot. It wasnt about Malcom, or Hyde. It was simple about trying your best and trying to win. Nothing more. 3 girls asked cuz we wer told it was available. And if no one asked, then probably we would be told we had an attitude problem. Almost as if someone kind of had to ask. " norm of consistent effort and hard work"? Give me a break. How do they measure these things????
Surfer Mouse:
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--- Quote from: ""Surfer Mouse"" ---By any accepted definition what Joe Gauld and the Hyde School program engage in is called family therapy. By using the label of “Educator” Joe Gauld presents his views and approach as unique and important contributions to the field of education, and feels he can operate completely free from the professional standards, accepted therapeutic approaches, and generally accepted views of the field of Family Therapy and the American Psychological Association. If he were to be practicing as a “Family Therapist” and a part of that field, his approach and views would have to compete in the larger market place of therapeutic approaches and be subject to professional peer comment and evaluation and review. I seriously doubt if he would be able to claim such high standing under those circumstances as he tries to present as an “Educator”. By operating under the label of “Educator” he conveniently avoids accountability for his actions in accordance to accepted professional and ethical standards for the American Psychological Association.
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This is absolutely dead-on bull's eye TRUE. What can be done about this? "Has anyone actually tried to sue him for providing therapy services without a license?
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Encounter Groups
"Encounter Groups were nontraditional attempts at psychotherapy that offered short-term treatment for members without serious psychiatric problems. These groups were also known as sensitivity (or sensory) awareness groups and training groups (or T-groups). Encounter groups were an outgrowth of studies conducted in 1946 at the National Training Laboratories in Connecticut by Kurt Lewin. The use of continual feedback, participation, and observation by the group encouraged the analysis and interpretation of their problems. Other methods for the group dynamics included Gestalt therapy (working with one person at a time with a primary goal of increasing awareness of oneself in the moment, also known as holistic therapy) and meditation.
Encounter groups were popularized by people such as Dr. Fritz Perls and Dr. Will Schutz (of the Esalen Institute) and had their greatest impact on the general population in the 1960s and 1970s. These groups fell out of favor with the psychiatric community because of criticism that many of the group leaders at the time were not trained in traditional group therapy and that the groups could sometimes cause great harm to people with serious emotional problems."
What can br done? More parents and former students need to be getting lawyers and filing civil law suites agains Hyde.
Licensed or non-licensed, Hyde teachers and staff still are liable
for harm done to others due to gross negligence. If the prevailing professional
opinion since the '80s in the field of Counseling and Psychology is that there is potential
for great harm to others with encounter groups run by unqualified leaders then Hyde
is a sitting duck.
Perhaps this is the lesson to be learned from how past law suites have been handled.
Always settle out of court or in a sealed secret agreement. Never go to court because
any law suite that went to an actual jury would be so damaging to the school it would
not be worth it. If 5 people sued at the same time for personal damages due to having
to be subjected to encounter groups run by unqualified staff Hyde would freak out.
You might actually see some changes.
Anonymous:
1. How many families would be needed for a class action suit?
2. What is the statue of limitations for such gross negligence, irreparable psychological harm?
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---1. How many families would be needed for a class action suit?
2. What is the statue of limitations for such gross negligence, irreparable psychological harm?
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You need only a lawyer, a claim that a parties in a class have been harmed and one member of the class. My guess is you will not find a lawyer to touch it. There would be tons of research required, years of discovery and trial and no money unless the plaintives prevail initially and on appeal.
IANAL
Anonymous:
--- Quote ---How do they measure these things
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How do they measure anything? They pull it out of their collective ass. How do you measure character? Hyde graduates have gone off to be drug addicts and sexual offenders. I guess they made a mistake _or_ they don't have a freaking idea how to measure character.
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