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Hyde Schools / Re: Prospective Parents: take it from an alum.
« on: August 13, 2008, 05:17:16 PM »
I wasn't even there for this student's experience, and I can guess who it was based on their first year. Because there are so few who will stick up for Hyde after graduating.

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Hyde Schools / Re: Major Hyde Leadership Changes
« on: January 23, 2008, 08:51:47 PM »
Hyde is a lifetime commitment, you fat cow.

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Aspen Education Group / Adirondack Leadership Expeditions
« on: January 23, 2008, 06:29:45 PM »
I went there.

I'm just putting up a topic in case anyone wants information, discussion, etc. I noticed a lot of Swift River talk, and ALE and ASR are pretty tightly connected.

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Hyde Schools / Re: Major Hyde Leadership Changes
« on: January 22, 2008, 11:55:43 PM »
I've known quite personally all three. Here's what I think.

Laura Gauld

Bob Felt

Don MacMillan

But that's just what I think of them. As for this story in particular, this was a very solid reorganization. Hyde has made a good move to recognize its strongest leadership assets. If you'd asked me, these three already were Hyde's unofficial executive leadership team.

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Hyde Schools / Major Hyde Leadership Changes
« on: January 22, 2008, 11:29:09 PM »
In short:
-Laura Gauld will be Executive Director of Hyde Boarding Schools. She will stay as Hyde-Woodstock Head of School, but will spend 1/3 of her time at Bath.
-Don MacMillan will be Hyde-Bath Head of School. He will now be preparing this spring for the position, spending time at the Bath campus and moving his family.
-Bob Felt will be Associate Head of School at Hyde-Woodstock, the second-in-command after Laura Gauld. He will lead the school during Laura Gauld's absences.

Together, these three make up the new Hyde Executive Leadership team.

Hyde Schools Reorganizes Leadership Team
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Hyde Schools Reorganizes Leadership Team
1/21/2008
Bath, ME/Woodstock, CT—Two education veterans and a faculty member/ administrator with more than a decade of experience will comprise a leadership trio who will oversee Hyde Schools’ college-preparatory boarding campuses in Bath, ME, and Woodstock, CT, in school year 2008-09.

In an effort to reconfigure Hyde’s boarding school administration and create “one school with two campuses,” Hyde President Malcolm W. Gauld ’72 Bath recently appointed an executive leadership team who will work together to further strengthen delivery of Hyde’s unique brand of family-based character education to students and families in grades 9-12. The team members are: Laura Denton Gauld ’76 Bath, Donald W. MacMillan, and Robert C. Felt ’90 Bath.

Letter from Malcolm Gauld Regarding Leadership Changes
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Letter from Malcolm Gauld Regarding Leadership Changes
1/21/2008
A New Executive Leadership Team
The Hyde-Bath search process began late last summer, after Laurie Hurd announced that this would be her last year as Head of School. Shortly after we began to give consideration to the scores of candidates who responded to the ads placed in national publications, we also began to perceive the search process as an opportunity to unify Bath and Woodstock more strongly and thereby continuously improve the unique brand of character education we offer at Hyde. We have always described Bath and Woodstock as "one school, two campuses," and yet in many respects the schools have operated independently, sometimes even in competition with each other. In the spirit of Hyde's belief in synergy – "1+1=3" – we began to envision a new executive leadership team that would work together to inspire this synergy at Bath and Woodstock. This executive team consists of Bob Felt, Laura Gauld, and Don MacMillan.

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Hyde Schools / Video of survivor
« on: January 12, 2008, 01:37:44 AM »
First, the usual disclaimer: I didn't take the video or the photo, I found them online. It's not like I'll find myself talking to a Gauld ever again, but I don't want anyone's alumni mug to be in danger because of me.

He didn't end up losing the thumb, although for a long while it was very uncertain. He probably has some permanent damage. I remember, people would say he should have sued the school. :)

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Hyde Schools / Video of survivor
« on: January 10, 2008, 10:34:28 PM »
He barely made it out alive! The case of Lino was discussed in the forum recently, and recently footage has been recovered from the debacle. This student suffered from frostbite after one of Hyde's wilderness "outpost" trips to Maine.




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Hyde Schools / Information about NEASC investigation of Hyde?
« on: January 03, 2008, 07:20:46 PM »
As soon as Lino could grasp again, they sent him mountain climbing again in Maine, where he slipped and ripped open his right arm. They used what supplies and bandages they had from the first aid kit they had with them to attempt to stop the bleeding. He wore an improvised sling for two days, until they reached base camp and were able to drive him to a hospital. By then his arm had become infected and they were forced to amputate the limb. Lino maintained that he had been forced to hike in unsafe conditions and begged his parents to remove him from the school, but his concerns were not taken seriously and he is currently a junior at the school, often on 2/4 for his attitude towards Hyde. Lino complains that the one-armed push-ups he does are harder than the standard push-ups the other kids do, but he's been told that he uses his left arm while other kids alternate, so it should be strong, and he's just a weak complainer.

Actually, Ursus, he healed after a month or two and is fine now, and should still be a student. I get the feeling you want to hear about mistreatment of students at Hyde... ;)

I've posted here, but I don't feel bad about the place. I feel the time I spent there was beneficial. It might be a nightmare for some people, but if you follow the rules it can almost be tolerable. That is, if you don't allow yourself to be in a position to be punished. Which, I admit, not everyone is capable of, and it's certainly a hard way to live. I remember saying in my wilderness program I felt like I knew how it was being a prisoner of war. Hyde isn't that level (I was grateful for the three-hots-and-a-cot), but it is an uneasy environment where you have to be constantly aware. But if you can manage yourself there, you have definitely learned some skills. I won't say you'll go off prepared to take on the world, since a lot of graduates go on to college and PAAARTY! themselves out, but you'll build a tough skin which isn't that bad. Like in an army. :roll:

But yeah, Ursus, you will be penalized for talking back. You have to, as Hyde says "take hold and let go", which is a pretty ridiculous phrase I still joke about with my parents. But you have to learn to stop fighting and accept the fact that you're in the Hyde program, and try to get what you can from it. That's the state of mind they want you to be in. Unfortunately, accepting being a part of the program and doing your best is only enough to get by there, not enough to bask in their grace. You have to kiss ass for that. In fact, I was kept only in "good" standing because of my integrity. I refused to give them my signature committing myself to graduate from Hyde, explaining to them that not only was it my desire to not return to Hyde, but that it was unlikely that I would return, as my parents had already selected an alternate school for me. I was told point-blank by the headmaster that the only thing keeping me from being a student of privilege, Head's List, was my refusal to commit. No other students refused like I did. Many kids gave their word and signature (underage, so not legally-binding), and then left at the end of the year. I do not lie. I left the school honestly.

I guess it's just part of Hyde (and this forum) that almost every anecdote ends in a horror story, haha!

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Hyde Schools / What R some of the worst disco groups U ever sat thru?
« on: January 03, 2008, 03:41:03 AM »
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Yeah but how do you fell about being part of that?


I did everything I could for him. I tried to talk to him, but it was not effective. I was not in a position to help the boy. I suppose the people who possibly could have helped him weren't doing all they could do, but in all fairness a boy like that is very difficult to help.

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Hyde Schools / Information about NEASC investigation of Hyde?
« on: January 03, 2008, 03:34:24 AM »
They should definitely be more careful about student injuries; last year Lino Cowdrey got frostbite on outpost. He complained that he was in pain, but again he was basically ignored until they were done. He came back with black fingers, and couldn't use a pencil. He was basically in-and-out of class for a month or so. They didn't push him too hard or make him lose credit for schoolwork, as it wasn't his fault. I'm surprised they haven't learned to take the well-being of their students seriously.

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