Teachers Unions in Private Schools?

[Anonymous]

Advice in general: ( not one school in particular)

Good schools you know, the kind we all want for our kids: excellent faculty with low turnover, coherent curriculum, instead of flavor of the month fly by , well run Schools with no embezzlement going on or financial conflict of interest, a fair and equal admissions evaluation policy ( not favoritism for certain ummm International organizations)

Those kids of school will also have one thing in common:

No one from their Admin team would waste their time to monitor DCUM - and desperately try to counter every honest cautionary tail

Except a school with something to hide

Caveat Emptor

DC Superior Court records , listed case numbers by business name , also provide a gauge of how many parents leave a school and because it was so bad refused to pay the balance of what they owed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Advice in general: ( not one school in particular)

Good schools you know, the kind we all want for our kids: excellent faculty with low turnover, coherent curriculum, instead of flavor of the month fly by , well run Schools with no embezzlement going on or financial conflict of interest, a fair and equal admissions evaluation policy ( not favoritism for certain ummm International organizations)

Those kids of school will also have one thing in common:

No one from their Admin team would waste their time to monitor DCUM - and desperately try to counter every honest cautionary tail

M*ret Admissions dude is about to type a 9-page screed in response to this, then have the mods take the post down

[Anonymous]

Actually, I was not thinking of Maret- not even remotely

Just do a search of the Private of your choice on the DC Superior court civil case file and imagine .... what could be so bad to make a parent of young children run from a school and refuse to PAY....

Search under " business name " using the name of the school :

https://www.dccourts.gov/superior-court/cases-online

[Anonymous]

Any worker has the right to unionize, why shouldn’t that includes private school teachers? If you live in an “employment at will” state especially - because private school teachers only get 1 year contracts.
Past 2 years have shown us that in addition to pay and job security teachers are also in need of workplace safety measures - which a cost conscious admin may not necessarily want to provide

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No union in private schools.

Brooklyn Friends in NYC does.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did you miss the part of federal law which gives workers the right to form a union if they choose to?

I am very pro-Union, but I think teachers teach at private schools for autonomy and to teach well-resourced students in exchange for lower pay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Actually, I was not thinking of Maret- not even remotely

Just do a search of the Private of your choice on the DC Superior court civil case file and imagine .... what could be so bad to make a parent of young children run from a school and refuse to PAY....

Search under " business name " using the name of the school :

https://www.dccourts.gov/superior-court/cases-online

Run from a school and refuse to pay? It’s likely the family could no longer afford the tuition, left the school as a result, and got sued by the school for damages under the contract.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Actually, I was not thinking of Maret- not even remotely

Just do a search of the Private of your choice on the DC Superior court civil case file and imagine .... what could be so bad to make a parent of young children run from a school and refuse to PAY....

Search under " business name " using the name of the school :

https://www.dccourts.gov/superior-court/cases-online

Run from a school and refuse to pay? It’s likely the family could no longer afford the tuition, left the school as a result, and got sued by the school for damages under the contract.

This also happens in universities, except they usually send the tuition bill to collections & withhold transcripts rather than sue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Actually, I was not thinking of Maret- not even remotely

Just do a search of the Private of your choice on the DC Superior court civil case file and imagine .... what could be so bad to make a parent of young children run from a school and refuse to PAY....

Search under " business name " using the name of the school :

https://www.dccourts.gov/superior-court/cases-online

Run from a school and refuse to pay? It’s likely the family could no longer afford the tuition, left the school as a result, and got sued by the school for damages under the contract.

This also happens in universities, except they usually send the tuition bill to collections & withhold transcripts rather than sue.

Many colleges actually do sue, I’ve seen it in the field I work in. For Maryland state universities, they go through Central Collections Unit.

[Anonymous]

Here are the unionized NAIS private schools mentioned so far:

Friends Seminary, NYC
Little Red Elizabeth Irwin School, NYC
Fieldston School, NYC
Brooklyn Friends School, NYC
City & Country School, NYC
Latin School of Chicago
Washington International School, DC

https://undercovermother.substack.com/p/saving-american-education?s=r