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Hyde / The family Foundation School
Anonymous:
Here's a recent update.
Aug. 21, 2004
I met a mom who took her daughter out of Family Foundation. The teen was there for over a year. For almost eight months she had been trying to get her daughter out. They make it very hard and create a very intnese guilt trip when you want to remove your child before 18 months.
FF was willing to take this child who was beyond there scope and abilities to treat or help. The school might do well with druggies who buy into the 12 step philosophy and do not need on going therapy or psychiatric treatment (I think most troubled teen need family therapy not just 12 step program). Anyhow, This teen was diagnosed by her doctors at home with early onset of childhood bipolar and she had an eating disorder. Her life had been complete unmanageable running away sleeping on the streets of Manhattan and very, very dangerous and threatening to family, school teachers and herself..
At the Family foundation they wanted her off medicine as soon as she got there!!
They finally put her back on the medication. But She was not adequately maintained on the full therapeutic doses or monitored properly, she continued to have serious mental and emotional difficulties.
The worst part for this family was that they continuously "shunned" her daughter, the whole community did this for weeks on end even when the mom went to pick her daughter up at the school to leave. No one (staff or kids) were allowed to say good, wave to her, or hug her good bye.
Her daughter is home and still very manic but not dangerous. She was put back on the appropriate adequate doses of her medication. She will be attending a therapeutic school week boarding / day school and have on going care from a psychiatrist and family therapist. This level of care at home had not worked before the Family Foundation placement and they are hoping for the best now.
Anonymous:
The family foundation school is realllly bad. I went to Swift River (another shithole) but my friend there came from The Family school. She saw a boy commit suicide by jumping off one of the buildings and his head crack open in front of her, his blood got on her clothes. She was obvously very upset and traumatized, so she was restrained, drugged, and put in the isolation room becaause she was "out of control". The isolation room was one room where she had to stand constantly. It was never cleaned, piss was on the floor, and a camera watched everything she did. food was handed to her thru a slit in the door 3 times a day, like in the count of monte cristo or something. she got 1hr per day to sit. she was in there 3 days. jesus christ we are teenagers, you could get more humane treatment at some prisons
Anonymous:
I just wanted to say that I'm 29, graduated from Hyde in 1994, and the things people are saying about the school in this thread are RIDICULOUS. Hyde is a wonderful place and got me back on the right track and helped me to realize that integrity needs to come way before anything else in life. I went on to Hamilton College, taught for a few years, and am now a reporter for a local (rhode island) newspaper. Get your facts straight, people.
tommyfromhyde1:
--- Quote ---On 2004-09-22 11:12:00, Anonymous wrote:
"I just wanted to say that I'm 29, graduated from Hyde in 1994, and the things people are saying about the school in this thread are RIDICULOUS. Hyde is a wonderful place and got me back on the right track and helped me to realize that integrity needs to come way before anything else in life. I went on to Hamilton College, taught for a few years, and am now a reporter for a local (rhode island) newspaper. Get your facts straight, people."
--- End quote ---
What facts do I not have straight? Are people
who aren't brainwashed enough not put on two-four
work crew anymore? Are parents whose kids don't
like Hyde not being told to throw their kids out?
Are parents who don't fork over huge "donations"
- AFTER paying the huge tuition- not reamed out as "deadbeats" anymore? Are people not being
forced to work out to the point of injury and
then being forced to work out injured? (After
being accused of "faking it" of course). Are
people not being encouraged to rat each other out
for every petty little thing?
BTW I went to Hyde too in 1976.
Peace,
Tommy
He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
--Albert Einstein
--- End quote ---
The_Reverend:
i'm literally sitting in the hyde school computer lab reading this right now. This school is not a bad place at all. The 2-4 work crew that was talked about is a punishment lasting usually a few days, NEVER months. and the labor is never hard, just boring. to get on 2-4 you just have to do drugs, have sex, cheat, or lie. the rules are easy enough to abide by.
i came here after spending 6 months at the family school. now THAT place is hell on earth, i replied to a post above with some comments on that. but please parents, do NOT send your kids there. it is a miserable place, and no kid deserves it. e-mail me for more information. msiler@hyde.edu
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