Will Whittle be around next year?

[Anonymous]

Exactly

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Anonymous wrote:Never understood the Mandarin language thing, especially ad there are at least well over a billion people who already and will always speak it better than your DC.

Reminds me of the obsession w Japanese language in the 1980s. Very few ever became fluent and it was rarely of any practical use

Oh really? My DC is almost fluent at 12 and speaks with very little accent. This from the Chinese immersion schools in this area. He can speak on par with those billion mandarin speakers you just mentioned.

Wow. Fabulous. They can work in China. Super.

Gimme French any day. Even Latin.

You are closed minded. You think small. You are obviously ignorant of how things work in the world.

Just think, your kid could be the western employee in China who gets arrested in retaliation when the DoJ charges a Chinese citizen with some crime.

Or leave their lungs there

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Not the PP. i think learning a language - any language - is terrific and research shows how it improves cognitive function. But I have always been baffled by language-snobbery. Japanese was in vogue in the 90s. Now its Mandarin. And if Vladimir keeps going, maybe it will be Russian soon!

For what its worth, if you're having your child learn a language for better perceived commercial opportunities, I think that is exactly what it is - a perception.

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While everyone here is debating the merits of Chinese over French, Whittle is failing to communicate with teachers in the most basic universal language of all - money! No payroll since January and with zero visibility into February with the month end 2 business days away...

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Lodge a complaint w OAG.

Consider a lawsuit. Folk who are the first movers in a class action are likely to get paid even in a Ch 11

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Also CPPA

https://oag.dc.gov/worker-rights

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Anonymous wrote:While everyone here is debating the merits of Chinese over French, Whittle is failing to communicate with teachers in the most basic universal language of all - money! No payroll since January and with zero visibility into February with the month end 2 business days away...

You are right. That is the bigger point. Last I knew, some teachers weren’t showing up anymore. Haven’t in about a week.

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Anonymous wrote:How are those 'X-Days' and 'Acceleration Blocks' working out for current families??

What an obnoxious fu*king post. I have no horse in the race, no kid at Whittle. I think CW is a criminal that will be the subject of many documentaries, research pieces and salacious episodes of crime TV series. And he deserves it.

But what kind of a**hole feels better about themselves by dumping salt into the painful wounds of families with kids there. As we have learned, every family received significant discounts, many of whom presumably sacrificed to get their kid into what they thought was a better situation than their available public. They are the victims. And you are an ass.

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It's a skeleton crew at this point. The local private school community (with enormous endowments) should band together and provide minimal funding to keep the teachers paid through end of semester. ZERO dollars going to Chris, admin staff at reduced wages, teachers full if possible. It is the right thing to do for the students and families. A lifeline. When the school year ends, prepare transcripts and letters of recommendation as needed, and shut this embarrassment down.

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Anonymous wrote:It's a skeleton crew at this point. The local private school community (with enormous endowments) should band together and provide minimal funding to keep the teachers paid through end of semester. ZERO dollars going to Chris, admin staff at reduced wages, teachers full if possible. It is the right thing to do for the students and families. A lifeline. When the school year ends, prepare transcripts and letters of recommendation as needed, and shut this embarrassment down.

Why would other private schools do this? What about unemployment? Or a civil suit against Whittle himself for fraud.

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Anonymous wrote:It's a skeleton crew at this point. The local private school community (with enormous endowments) should band together and provide minimal funding to keep the teachers paid through end of semester. ZERO dollars going to Chris, admin staff at reduced wages, teachers full if possible. It is the right thing to do for the students and families. A lifeline. When the school year ends, prepare transcripts and letters of recommendation as needed, and shut this embarrassment down.

Why would other private schools do this? What about unemployment? Or a civil suit against Whittle himself for fraud.

Civil suit would be helpful if CW were not indebted to the tune of eight figures with apparently no assets besides his equity in the school

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Anonymous wrote:It's a skeleton crew at this point. The local private school community (with enormous endowments) should band together and provide minimal funding to keep the teachers paid through end of semester. ZERO dollars going to Chris, admin staff at reduced wages, teachers full if possible. It is the right thing to do for the students and families. A lifeline. When the school year ends, prepare transcripts and letters of recommendation as needed, and shut this embarrassment down.

My children’s private school had better not involve themselves (or my tuition/annual fund donations) in this Whittle clusterflick!

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Anonymous wrote:If you overpay for a clearly distressed house and forgo a simple home inspection that would reveal all sorts of structural issues, you’re not a victim just a poor consumer.

There are also scenarios where are you pay for a home inspection, but the inspector lies and scams you. Plenty of con artists go after more vulnerable people that are easier to fool, that doesn’t mean the scammer schooling be blamed and held accountable.

The school opened in a new facility with (by all accounts) excellent faculty. The school achieved accreditation and IB certification. It’s easy to look back today and say parents should have known but that’s not the reality.

There were established alternatives with track records going back decades. It was always a gamble sending a kid there (assuming they could have gotten into a better school).

Very limited high performing options for kids that wanted to learn/continue learning Mandarin in Middle School. As much as the world has changed in the last 20 years you would think there would be more alternatives. But here's some for example, if you have more please share.

Bullis farm from the city very expensive.
Sidwell one in a million very expensive.
DCI which is rated 6/10 on Greater Schools. Many complaints that I've heard from parents I trust to make informed schooling decisions.
Pallotti is far from the city and doesn't begin until HS.
Whittle promised a lot and offered merit scholarship.

If parents were seeking small school traditional education there were many other viable schools. But for the niche group mentioned above that wanted Mandarin as a key learning component there weren't many options. Of course some will say just send your child to a traditional school and have them study Mandarin on the weekends, blah blah blah etc... Sending your child to Whittle was a risk, like a start up company. Its all sunken cost now, lesson learned.

Gds has mandarin in middle school and I think Sidwell does too. There are lots of schools that offer what Whittle claims to have offered, without the risk.

Potomac starts mandarin in 7th

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Anonymous wrote:If you overpay for a clearly distressed house and forgo a simple home inspection that would reveal all sorts of structural issues, you’re not a victim just a poor consumer.

There are also scenarios where are you pay for a home inspection, but the inspector lies and scams you. Plenty of con artists go after more vulnerable people that are easier to fool, that doesn’t mean the scammer schooling be blamed and held accountable.

The school opened in a new facility with (by all accounts) excellent faculty. The school achieved accreditation and IB certification. It’s easy to look back today and say parents should have known but that’s not the reality.

There were established alternatives with track records going back decades. It was always a gamble sending a kid there (assuming they could have gotten into a better school).

Very limited high performing options for kids that wanted to learn/continue learning Mandarin in Middle School. As much as the world has changed in the last 20 years you would think there would be more alternatives. But here's some for example, if you have more please share.

Bullis farm from the city very expensive.
Sidwell one in a million very expensive.
DCI which is rated 6/10 on Greater Schools. Many complaints that I've heard from parents I trust to make informed schooling decisions.
Pallotti is far from the city and doesn't begin until HS.
Whittle promised a lot and offered merit scholarship.

If parents were seeking small school traditional education there were many other viable schools. But for the niche group mentioned above that wanted Mandarin as a key learning component there weren't many options. Of course some will say just send your child to a traditional school and have them study Mandarin on the weekends, blah blah blah etc... Sending your child to Whittle was a risk, like a start up company. Its all sunken cost now, lesson learned.

Gds has mandarin in middle school and I think Sidwell does too. There are lots of schools that offer what Whittle claims to have offered, without the risk.

Potomac starts mandarin in 7th

WIS also starts a strong Mandarin program in 6th grade.

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Anonymous wrote:It's a skeleton crew at this point. The local private school community (with enormous endowments) should band together and provide minimal funding to keep the teachers paid through end of semester. ZERO dollars going to Chris, admin staff at reduced wages, teachers full if possible. It is the right thing to do for the students and families. A lifeline. When the school year ends, prepare transcripts and letters of recommendation as needed, and shut this embarrassment down.

Why would other private schools do this? What about unemployment? Or a civil suit against Whittle himself for fraud.

How is unemployment going to help these kids finish out the school year?

Ask your own kids, do they think it's the right thing to help the Whittle kids out? If they don't say yes, you've got some cold, uncaring children.

I'm sure if you were in that situation, you wouldn't want to upend their lives when we're just a few months till the end of the semester. Show some compassion.