From a Man Given Grace to Wake up and Smell the Coffee In a thread entitled, "An Honest Question For Hyles followers?" on the FFF, Deaconman theorizes that maybe the current hardliners who refuse to see the mountain of evidence of corruption and scandal at Hyles-Anderson College never experienced the hardest knocks first hand. It has generated some discussion and open comments about the experience of living under legalism.

See, the kids were able to see a different side to the staff members. The coach who took a pocket knife and cut a slit off the tongue of a third grader (in front of a bus load of kids), gets up and screams at the kids in chapel for bad behavior. What kind of message does that relay? The principal who "bent the rules" for some kids (because of who their parents were) and then "break the rod" (figuratively, not literally) over the student whose parents went to another local church, making the kid feel everyone was against him. The teacher who literally decked a student, sending him reeling down the bleachers, gets up and preaches in chapel the next day as if nothing had happened. The high school kid who sodomized a junior high kid in the locker room (caught by a teacher) was kicked out of school, but allowed to attend Teenage Soul-Winning the next week after his suspension. The Hyles-Duckles Camp Director who literally flogged a camper (bare-back with a belt) in front of the assembly (as a warning not to "behave like this guy") who then exposes the kids to "Jesus really does love you!"