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YouTube: 'Hyde School Campus Tour'
Ursus:
Okay, last one from this guy. I hope he finds us and realizes how much we appreciate his documentary efforts.
Are camo shorts, chucks, and Grateful Dead T-Shirts off-limits for student wear during the week these days?
'Hyde Introduction to Roommate and Friend': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c1GkElhg5E
"This shows one is about my roommate, Mike Zavack, from the D.C. area. Hunter McGinty was also in the room, he's pretty cool."
Anonymous:
what was that meeting at the very end of the first video (the "campus tour" one), when the music stopped? was that a seminar or discovery group?
Ursus:
--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---what was that meeting at the very end of the first video (the "campus tour" one), when the music stopped? was that a seminar or discovery group?
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Looks like it. Probably his last one. Anybody know for sure?
silentlysinging:
Wow, watching all of these...crazy deja vu. I remember the Mansion and everything; everything looks pretty much exactly the same as it did when I was there from '02-'03... I felt like I was back. Oh God. And the music was perfect, haha.
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--- Quote from: ""Ursus"" ---Are camo shorts, chucks, and Grateful Dead T-Shirts off-limits for student wear during the week these days?
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Well, Ursus, yes, because as I recall about my time,
at Hyde in general but ESPECIALLY on 2-4, getting rid of your "image" was(and still is, I'd imagine) a big deal. You are not allowed to express yourself with clothing, or to be an individual in any way, basically. To do so is to project an "image", an image you clearly need to let go of. Of course, everyone has an image. It's part of your identity, part of your natural need to define and find yourself, especially as a teenager... But Hyde does not allow you to maintain your identity; it's seen as "off-track" in general, whether you're on 2-4 or not. And when you ARE on 2-4, at least, when I was...dress code was even crazier. No jewelery (or make-up) of any kind, no jeans, no chucks, certainly no band shirts, no dress shirts, no skirts, no clothing you feel good in, only plain sweats and plain t-shirts; you had to look like everyone else, essentially.
Ursus:
--- Quote from: ""silentlysinging"" ---
--- Quote from: ""Ursus"" ---Are camo shorts, chucks, and Grateful Dead T-Shirts off-limits for student wear during the week these days?
--- End quote ---
Well, Ursus, yes, because as I recall about my time,
at Hyde in general but ESPECIALLY on 2-4, getting rid of your "image" was(and still is, I'd imagine) a big deal. You are not allowed to express yourself with clothing, or to be an individual in any way, basically. To do so is to project an "image", an image you clearly need to let go of. Of course, everyone has an image. It's part of your identity, part of your natural need to define and find yourself, especially as a teenager... But Hyde does not allow you to maintain your identity; it's seen as "off-track" in general, whether you're on 2-4 or not. And when you ARE on 2-4, at least, when I was...dress code was even crazier. No jewelery (or make-up) of any kind, no jeans, no chucks, certainly no band shirts, no dress shirts, no skirts, no clothing you feel good in, only plain sweats and plain t-shirts; you had to look like everyone else, essentially.
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We did have image restrictions as well. I guess I was/am innately kind of a boring dresser, so I don't recall running afoul of them too much myself. Perhaps my memory fails me a bit... I am just a bit surprised that Camo shorts or Converse sneakers fall into the category of disallowed material. They strike me as pretty tame.
I can remember a fellow with long hair and a headband. The headband went, and so did the hair. I also vaguely remember a gal whose mum sent her a shirt she had sewed up herself, for the gal's birthday. Gal wore it and caught a lot of grief for "trying to be different."
Creativity manifests itself in many ways. Makes you kinda wonder how the kids fare who take "Art" classes there... Can creativity survive within the narrow confines of the few "allowed" avenues of expression? What happens if you draw or paint something the school considers "too dark," or wrong subject matter, or "not within the confines of the assignment?"
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