Bath, Maine, Child Abuse, Hyde School

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Hi folks,

Maine is one of my favorite states. There are so many great people there who would be on your side if they only knew the truth about Hyde School. One of my favorite things to do is make the abusive schools and the criminals behind them google-able, hence the title of this thread.

Thank you for telling your stories here. Keep it up. I would also suggest bringing your stories to the attention of local media in Maine. Many Mainers are very politically savvy, it seems especially so with regards to education, home schooling, alternative schooling, that sort of thing. I wish you the best of luck. I may just have to swing through Bath the next time I am in the state and take a look at Hyde School. For my own unruly teenager.  :wink:

fka

[tommyfromhyde1]

Thanks for the post fka!
Mainers may be politally savvy but Hyde is slick.
Hyde students are forced to work as campaign
volenteers. This is called "community action"
This makes Joe Gauld the Mel Sembler of Maine!
 :grin:

Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose, and you allow him to make war at pleasure. Study to see if you can fix any limit to his power in this respect, after having given him so much as you propose. If today he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him,--"I see no probability of the British invading us"; but he will say to you, "Be silent: I see it, if you don't."
--Abraham Lincoln

[ This Message was edited by: tommyfromhyde1 on 2005-04-12 09:28 ][ This Message was edited by: tommyfromhyde1 on 2005-04-12 09:35 ]

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wait, you mean like on political campaigns? if so, how do they decide which party to support?

[Anonymous]

Yes, I do mean on political campaigns. And even
though Joe Gauld is to the right of Hitler, they
had people working for both parties so Hyde has
friends in the statehouse no matter which party
is in charge.

[tommyfromhyde1]

Sorry, that last was me. Forgot to log in.

If triangles had a God, He'd have three sides.
--Old Yiddish proverb

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On 2005-04-13 10:03:00, Anonymous wrote:

"... Joe Gauld is to the right of Hitler..."

yikes!

[Anonymous]

In the mid 1980's I was unfortunate enough to get stuck at Hyde. It was during this time that Gauld returned and took over the struggling school. There is no question in my mind that this is more of a cult than a school. In the end, I never graduated and had to take a GED. This affected my college career and my entire life since. It's rough enough to be a teenager without people like Gaul and his brainwashers working on you. I'm in my late 30's and I am still affected by some of the things that happened there.

[tommyfromhyde1]

On 2005-05-02 08:35:00, Anonymous wrote:

"In the mid 1980's I was unfortunate enough to get stuck at Hyde. It was during this time that Gauld returned and took over the struggling school.

I was at Hyde in '76 when Joe Gauld was "retired"
In truth he never really left. He may have stepped
down as Headmaster but the Headmaster who replaced
him, Ed Legg, wouldn't have blown his nose without
the Great One's permission.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for a reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
--Albert Einstein, German-born American physicist

[Anonymous]

I currently attend Hyde, in Maine. Although at first I thought it was cult like and about brainwashing too, I have come to love it. I would probably be a druggie on the street, or even dead somewhere if it wasnt for Hyde. Everyone is intitled to thier own opinion, of course, but personally I love Hyde and everythiong it's done for me. I just finished my first year, and I cannot wait to go back! :grin:

[larry61122]

Fuck Hyde

[Anonymous]

fing chung lat kah

[leleNtom]

my mom was going to send me to hyde till she found a wwasp program... which school is better?

"I predict, Sir, that you will die either by hanging or of some vile disease."
 "That all depends, sir, upon whether I embrace your principles or your mistress."
--Disraeli to Gladstone

[tommyfromhyde1]

If WWASP's a gulag, then Hyde's sorta gulag-lite.
People at Hyde go home for academic vacations and
such. I'm hearing, though, that people who aren't
working out at Hyde are being taken to worse
places by "escorts".

I don't think we're here for anything, we're just products of evolution. You can say 'Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don't think there's a purpose' but I'm anticipating a good lunch.
--Dr. James Watson, American biologist

[HydeFan]

"In the end, I never graduated and had to take a GED. This affected my college career and my entire life since."

Hmmm.  I didn't graduate from Hyde (my own fault).  I got a GED.  And I am doing just fine in my career.  

So I have to think, maybe it wasn't Hyde, maybe you are (a) lazy, (b) just not that smart (seriously-no offense intended, but you have to consider it), or (among other options) (c) one of children of the entitlement generation who thinks that everything should be handed to them.

Then again, maybe its neither of the above.  You could just be a someone who chronically blames other people and life's events for your shortcomings.

Whatever it is, your story seems a little lame and full of self-pity.  My advice, FWIW, stop playing the victim.  It might get you attention, but it won't likely make you any more successful in your career.[ This Message was edited by: HydeFan on 2005-10-02 02:30 ]

[Anonymous]

On 2005-10-02 02:29:00, HydeFan wrote:

""In the end, I never graduated and had to take a GED. This affected my college career and my entire life since."



Hmmm.  I didn't graduate from Hyde (my own fault).  I got a GED.  And I am doing just fine in my career.  



So I have to think, maybe it wasn't Hyde, maybe you are (a) lazy, (b) just not that smart (seriously-no offense intended, but you have to consider it), or (among other options) (c) one of children of the entitlement generation who thinks that everything should be handed to them.



Then again, maybe its neither of the above.  You could just be a someone who chronically blames other people and life's events for your shortcomings.



Whatever it is, your story seems a little lame and full of self-pity.  My advice, FWIW, stop playing the victim.  It might get you attention, but it won't likely make you any more successful in your career.[ This Message was edited by: HydeFan on 2005-10-02 02:30 ]"

HydeFan, you obviously are not too bright yourself to say that Anonymous must either be "lazy" or "not too bright."  Are you implying that doing the program at Hyde will help, "not too bright" students graduate?  Yeah, that sounds about right.  Hyde DOES graduate most everyone, which is why so few are successes in college or simply go to local community colleges or no college at all!  

Maybe Anonymous is playing victim, I don't know but I do know that Hyde has ruined many lives by screwing with academics.  I know this for a fact!  I was one of those and although I am doing ok now, it was a struggle for me.  I don't blame Hyde as much as I realize as a family we should have gotten out sooner rather than later. It is easy to get caught up in Hyde when a parent is desperate.

The past is the past and one must move on, but Hyde was an unfortunate chapter in my life. Not looking to blame and not feeling sorry for myself. Hyde was a learning experience for me.  I learned that I would NEVER send my child off to a school for troubled teens.  My future children will have a Mother who will deal with whatever problems they might have AT HOME!!