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kaydeejaded:
STAY AWAY FROM THE FAMILY SCHOOL IN NY!!!!!!
I was there for a short time after Straight. It was slave labor camp and the "school" is not even credited in NY so you are just there for nothing. Cleaning and working around the farm is all you do. There is also the food issue if you don't eat what they put in front of you (I do not eat meat) they make you sit in front of it until it rots literally rots. It definatly was better then Straight but not good at all. Just say no!!
Take care Watch out!! ,kady :eek:

Anonymous:
Thank you all for the feedback. With intense research and phone calls I have realized Hyde is not the type of place that is appropriate for me to send my daughter.

I already know the Family Foundation school is wrong! wrong ! wrong for my daughter. I called them and they don't have educators with backgrounds in Education! When I asked they said some of the teachers don't have college degress. They also don't ever want to meet the student during the interview process.

Pretty scary!

mose

kaydeejaded:
:grin: I am so glad you took the time to research these places have you heard of Storm King in  Storm King NY? It is a boarding school. Maybe you might like to look at the information perhaps it is on the web. If an x-straightling recommends a school you had better believe it is not a brainwash sweat shop. check it out. The campus is beautiful and the art program ( I'm a wannabe artist) was excellent. That is all I know really and that it is pretty pricey. But not as much as say Choate or Emma Willard ya know. Take care Hope you find what you are looking for. Maybe it's just at home with you :wink:

FaceKhan:
If you are looking primarily at boarding schools then Proctor is supposed to be a really good school. I think it is in New Hamshire or Vermont, but I hear the campus is beatiful with its own ski slope and all that jazz. My friend Alex went there for 3 or 4 years before he got expelled and sent to Alldredge.  Probably expensive but not nearly as expensive as some of these cult programs

Antigen:
I have a customer/friend who's little step brother went to Hyde last year.

My friend started hearing some strange stuff and asked me if I knew anything about it. I knew Tommy, so I knew what happened there in the `70's. Jason's right; they don't change their spots, but they do get more adept at working the system.

This was not a "troubled kid", as such. Just a kid who was having a hard time making it accademically and who wanted a more formal, more disciplined environment. He went willingly. They simply told him and his parents what they wanted to hear--nice campus, excellent sports program, etc. They didn't know it at the time, but if they'd said "defiant kid" or "in trouble with law" or some such, they would have gotten a different pitch.

Anyway, they pulled the kid after the first semester when he started talking crazy stuff about how awful he had been and how he couldn't write more or spend time with them cause he had to devote himself more fully to religious salvation.

The parent weekend had been weird enough to get them really concerned. Then they found out about the group punishment when the kid couldn't write or take visitors or some damned thing because some other kid had broken a rule. Then it came out that, instead of brutalizing the kids on-site, they just hold the threat of Redcliff Accademy (wilderness deathmarch) over the kids' heads. And there were, at the time (probably are now), kids in the school who actually got sent to Redcliff and came back with stories to tell and 'that look' in their eye.

I'm glad you did the research to find out about this. I'm only posting this for future reference for people who come along with the same question. I wish I knew of some good boarding schools or something. But I'm just not of that set. The monied branch of my family just came with too many strings attached so I just wouldn't know.

But I think the correct answer is probably different for each kid. Does the kid want a boarding school? How come? Maybe "boarding school" is the only term she can think of to meet whatever needs she has. There are a whole range of other kinds of experiences that might better meet her needs. The important thing would be for her to explore all options ya'll mentoring grown-ups can think of for her and then decide together what would be the best next move.

I hope everything turns out ok for you. Please do stay in touch. We could use a little more contact with folks who don't make the mistakes our families have made.

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