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The 10 Priorities (from Biggest Job)
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: ""JoeSoulBro"" ---Can you really make money, handing out advice like this? Please let me help. I have two kids in college and need cash. Please help. BTW I have asked my kids to help with the bills by working.
JoeSoulBro
(I walk the course when I play too)
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Dear Joe SoulBro,
Thank you for submitting your application for a professional educator's position at the Hyde School. As the Hyde Schools are the principal force guiding America’s efforts in character education, we have strived to consider every candidate’s application seriously.
Our first impression is not a good one. You have a polite and quiet manner that is an oddity in our network of colleagues, and we found your tendency to say "please" quite distracting and wonder what this reflects of your character.
As your letter continues, we find other characteristics that trouble us. Your bachelor's degree and teaching diploma, while commendable, seem a tad pretentious. Although some of our members thought it wonderful that you have many years of teaching experience, your list of references from "achievement-oriented" boarding schools hardly elicits confidence.
In truth, we fear that your celebrity status may ultimately impede our principal mandate of excellence in character education. To be blunt, your lack of any prior convictions renders you somewhat overqualified to teach character at the Hyde School.
Consequently, we regret to inform you that your application will not be shortlisted for further consideration at this time.
Sincerely yours,
Malcolm Gauld
Hiring Committee
The Hyde Schools
Ursus:
::roflmao:: ::roflmao:: ::roflmao:: ::roflmao::
P.S. Your predilection for the field of engineering, with its focus on hard facts and deductive reasoning, gives us great pause. We fear you might ask too many questions, and not be open enough to "trusting the process."
Also, your wicked and insightful jokes do not go over well here. We choose to wield our highly developed sense of humor in a more politically correct fashion, namely, only targeting those with lack character.
Peace,
Mal
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: ""Ursus"" ---Ha ha! Just when has anyone in their right mind ever pictured Hyde feigning any semblance of "humility?" Now that is a "challenge" they will never rise to, mark my words...
Sloppy formatting too: last bullet is not one of "these questions," but the closing sentence.
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Priority #9
[li]When was the last time you really asked for help from someone?[/li]
[li]When was the last time you asked for help from your child?[/li]
[li]If we can become better at this, our children will trust us at a deeper level and will use us more as a resource.[/li][/list]
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these people want to talk down to us about "humility", and tell us to be humble to our kids, and ask for our kids help. When is the last time Hyde humbled itself and apologized for their mistakes, and asked us for help?
they dish it out but they sure cant take it.
Ursus:
She really should be writing for Hallmark. They can afford to assign her a good editor. This also would be an arena where there would be far less damage done in the long run.
Hyde is famous for telling people what their children "actually want." But this is a misnomer of the highest degree. Hyde is actually telling people what Hyde wants, and charging them $40k for the privilege of listening.
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Priority #10
What do our children most want from us? As parents, we can misread this. Our children may be telling us to leave them alone, or they may want us to "trust" them more and back off. We tell our parents that their children want us to inspire them. They may not even know they want this from us. However, their desire to be inspired may well be the strongest yearning they have, the greatest hope they have. We will not inspire them with our achievements. It will be done through sharing our struggles, reaching for our best, and modeling daily character.
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: ""Ursus"" ---Priority #10
What do our children most want from us? As parents, we can misread this. Our children may be telling us to leave them alone, or they may want us to "trust" them more and back off. We tell our parents that their children want us to inspire them. They may not even know they want this from us. However, their desire to be inspired may well be the strongest yearning they have, the greatest hope they have. We will not inspire them with our achievements. It will be done through sharing our struggles, reaching for our best, and modeling daily character.
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Hyde neither inspires nor influences; it fosters psychological dependency. From the moment of its founding, Hyde has greatly exaggerated and inflated the evils of the American family, youth culture, and educational system into a vast and interrelated culture that alienates youth from any deep sense of purpose in life. The promulgation of this myth justifies and encourages the creation of an alternative education. Unfortunately, Hyde offers no real alternative. Hyde's educational program lacks intellectual sophistication and doctrinal coherence; it does not possess the weight and power, historical, intellectual or organizational, to replace the existing educational system. Courage, integrity, leadership, curiosity, and concern amount to no more than a few scattered, insubstantial, and even unrelated principles that owe most of their apparent coherence of teaching and organization to the preconceptions and writings of the Gaulds themselves.
My main criticism of Hyde, however, is that it is a persecuting culture. The monolithic student, parent, and peer culture Hyde creates within its walls, in opposition to America's "dysfunctional" culture, stamps out diversity, heterogeneity, free speech, free thought, and indeed courage, integrity, leadership, curiosity, and concern.
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