Will Whittle be around next year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:>You all are just loving that these kids/families have been put in this position. Kids. You are mocking kids.

Wrong again! (But keep trying!)

The students need to tell their parents that this sh*te is bananas. The parents prolly think they are doing the right thing. The students have more influence on this process and their parents than they believe. The students need to go to their parents and say "enough is enough"

And if this forum helps any students stand up for themselves and their educations, great.

You think these kids are reading DCUM?

“The parents prolly…”? Not mocking? You sound like someone who thinks they probably know what is probably happening.

Fact is, you are mocking children. For your own amusement. Over and over.

Real nice.

Oh students just like myself are definitely reading DCUM! We're having a great time watching you all gossip about our failing school while you should be raising a child! :o Yeesh, wouldn't want my kid to end up like some of yall... The funniest thing is though, the vast majority of yall aren't even involved in the school - what good does it do you to sit around on a forum instead of helping your child with homework or organizing a playdate? What's crazy too, is that half the shit yall say isn't even true...

Look, I'm in no way defending CW for anything he's done. As someone who is actually affected by the situation, I'm worried for my future and disappointed with CW, his team, and even some of the admin at the DC campus. And while we've gotten the news that some funding has come through, I really don't see the school holding up. You can blame our parents for not pulling us out earlier, but the reality is we're stuck here at least through the end of the year. But to those who aren't affected (and I mean this in the nicest way possible)... why the hell do you care? Don't use the excuse that "Chris Whittle is a criminal who needs to be locked up and we're concerned" because a bunch of failed parents sitting around gossiping on a forum won't do shit. If the public wants to know, they can go read the articles or ask someone who knows what the hell their talking about. Get off your asses and go do something with your lives, and let the relevant and affected people handle the situation.

Does “a bunch of failed parents” refer to the folks who decided to play 3 Card Monte with their kids’ education by sending them to the K12 equivalent of an NFT?

[Anonymous]

So you came on this message board at 1:38am to compose a long post advising others to get a life and shed unhealthy obsessions?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So you came on this message board at 1:38am to compose a long post advising others to get a life and shed unhealthy obsessions?

It's right up there with lecturing and fighting with anonymous people on a message board. Why does anyone think that lashing out like a playground brat is going to make any difference to anyone?

Doesn't sound like CW's great curriculum included much about dealing with the world maturely, or understanding a complicated fraud like this. Just knee-jerk teens. Pity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know who the internal leak is, but I wish they would at least delete people’s names. I think it’s disgraceful to post the names of parents to be ridiculed here. You should be ashamed of yourself.

Your post reminds me of the culture at Theranos where anyone who dared question Queen Elizabeth was immediately branded as clueless or disloyal or worse

Not at all. Question CW all you want. I’m bothered that parents just trying to see the school through the end of the year to avoid major disruption and heart ache for their children are being put on display for your commentary. You don’t know WHY people make the decisions they do. So judgey. Glad your life is so perfect. I know a few of these parents are just trying to make sure their kids actually graduate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Not at all. Question CW all you want. I’m bothered that parents just trying to see the school through the end of the year to avoid major disruption and heart ache for their children are being put on display for your commentary. You don’t know WHY people make the decisions they do. So judgey. Glad your life is so perfect. I know a few of these parents are just trying to make sure their kids actually graduate.

And while doing so they're allowing a well known grifter to keep the illusion of his failed new modern school alive. As long as the school has an "Accepting Applications for 22-23" link active on its site, it is hard to see it any other way.

And what about the juniors and soon to be high schoolers? Are they being misled because a few well intentioned (for the sake of their own kids - I get it) parents are ok with propping up CW's carcass for a few more months? At what point is it enough? "After my kid graduates and I can move on from this mess" doesn't feel like a great answer

[Anonymous]

Possibly even worse, there are poor people somewhere paying for all this largesse. BBB report on one of the short-term investors:

https://www.bbb.org/us/md/rockville/profile/property-management/the-donaldson-group-llc-0241-135608207

[Anonymous]

If this school had opened as a 1) Non-profit and 2) with the aim of building a strong school by working on the fundamentals, I don't think you would see the animosity.

But the message from CW was loud and clear from the start - You are doing it all wrong, I know how to do it better, the window dressing is the most important piece, and I'll get rich from it -- and I am more important, and more powerful, than students or families or teachers. That has been his mantra from the start.

Its hard not to have Schadenfreude for him.

No one is wishing ill on the children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:the 3 families that are the stogies also have kids that are seniors and are waiting for college acceptances. I am not sure how many seniors are left, but I do know they are the parents.

What the 3 families should have done, is hire the teachers to work with their kids and make sure they graduate, instead of tossing good money after bad. Although, some of those families have so much money 1M here or there doesn't matter to them.

Oh, and Danielle Braynt was fired in Nov because she spoke up about not being paid. FYI - I pulled my kid in Jan. and he is so far behind I am not sure what I am going to do. Summer school probably.

Only one of the families mentioned has a current senior. They all intend to see this through.

[Anonymous]

Whittle is through booking

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Not at all. Question CW all you want. I’m bothered that parents just trying to see the school through the end of the year to avoid major disruption and heart ache for their children are being put on display for your commentary. You don’t know WHY people make the decisions they do. So judgey. Glad your life is so perfect. I know a few of these parents are just trying to make sure their kids actually graduate.

And while doing so they're allowing a well known grifter to keep the illusion of his failed new modern school alive. As long as the school has an "Accepting Applications for 22-23" link active on its site, it is hard to see it any other way.

And what about the juniors and soon to be high schoolers? Are they being misled because a few well intentioned (for the sake of their own kids - I get it) parents are ok with propping up CW's carcass for a few more months? At what point is it enough? "After my kid graduates and I can move on from this mess" doesn't feel like a great answer

Con men keep playing their marks until the last dollar is extracted from the last gullible fool who still believed the con man's lies. We are seeing the end game here now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
And by the way, the people who say the school was a scam from the beginning and everyone should have known better should go google Elon Musk's failed businesses before Tesla.

Anonymous wrote:
Finally, to the poster who claims to have been dealing with Whittle for years: get a life my dude. If you're not now involved with him why are you stalking parent boards

So you're saying there was no way to tell that this school was a scam.

You're also saying that people that knew Whittle the longest, were familiar with his many similar past schemes and tried to alert people with objective facts (long before this thread) should have stayed away. Ok....

And if we stay away now, how will others who are thinking about joining know its a scam? You think CW will tell them?

Btw - if Elon Musk had failed to deliver a product with Tesla, it wouldn't have affected people much beyond maybe the loss of a security deposit. What we're talking about here is using the promise of a better education as the bait to detrimentally impact kids and their families. Big difference

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whittle is through booking

??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:>You all are just loving that these kids/families have been put in this position. Kids. You are mocking kids.

Wrong again! (But keep trying!)

The students need to tell their parents that this sh*te is bananas. The parents prolly think they are doing the right thing. The students have more influence on this process and their parents than they believe. The students need to go to their parents and say "enough is enough"

And if this forum helps any students stand up for themselves and their educations, great.

You think these kids are reading DCUM?

“The parents prolly…”? Not mocking? You sound like someone who thinks they probably know what is probably happening.

Fact is, you are mocking children. For your own amusement. Over and over.

Real nice.

Oh students just like myself are definitely reading DCUM! We're having a great time watching you all gossip about our failing school while you should be raising a child! :o Yeesh, wouldn't want my kid to end up like some of yall... The funniest thing is though, the vast majority of yall aren't even involved in the school - what good does it do you to sit around on a forum instead of helping your child with homework or organizing a playdate? What's crazy too, is that half the shit yall say isn't even true...

Look, I'm in no way defending CW for anything he's done. As someone who is actually affected by the situation, I'm worried for my future and disappointed with CW, his team, and even some of the admin at the DC campus. And while we've gotten the news that some funding has come through, I really don't see the school holding up. You can blame our parents for not pulling us out earlier, but the reality is we're stuck here at least through the end of the year. But to those who aren't affected (and I mean this in the nicest way possible)... why the hell do you care? Don't use the excuse that "Chris Whittle is a criminal who needs to be locked up and we're concerned" because a bunch of failed parents sitting around gossiping on a forum won't do shit. If the public wants to know, they can go read the articles or ask someone who knows what the hell their talking about. Get off your asses and go do something with your lives, and let the relevant and affected people handle the situation.

+1000

[Anonymous]

Since Washington Post is uninterested, maybe the editor of the school newspaper could ask: who is paying for security, for heat, for ac, for building maintenance, for custodial, for supplies, for computer systems email systems and platforms, for the telephone system, the Internet? Because it's against the law for any revenue coming in to be spent on anything other than salaries, and unpaid invoices the courts have ordered the entities to pay. ... They could ask: Is money being funneled into secret accounts, or is someone using an unethical loophole to get around paying contractors that filed over a year ago and are owed their due from any money coming in? They could also ask for the structure of the boards involved in managing the company, who owns what pieces of the business. While it's inconvenient to obey the law and file for bankruptcy so an orderly disposition of assets can occur, it's a whole lot worse to pose as if financial victories had been won, misrepresent insolvency, mischaracterize incoming cash, pay through side accounts and through "friends" or fake donations and fake bridge loans, and otherwise act to avoid the legal constraints placed onto the entity.

[Anonymous]

School newspaper? Is there one?