Hyde School family weekends. Reinforcing values

Last month, Hyde School held its Spring Family Weekend. This weekend is the highlight of the local boarding school’s spring calendar. Bringing families to the campus for an intense three day flurry of meetings, activities, sporting events and performing arts is part of the school’s larger mission of integrating the family into each student’s educational process.

When Joseph Gauld founded the school in 1966, he saw many students going through the public school system, only to graduate without reaching their maximum potential. Gauld developed a holistic approach, which stressed character at its core and brought each family into the educational process.

At Hyde, integrating families into the educational mix allows sons and daughters to reach their unique destiny that their potential pushes them towards.

While the perception of many outside of the Hyde community is that the school is for “troubled kids,