Will Whittle be around next year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:New student on here. There are now new pics we have an option to be in. It’s absurd to be focusing on pictures when we don’t even know if we will be coming back after break. “ Good morning everyone and Happy Thursday! On Wednesday, March *, we will have a photographer come to Whittle to take photos of our spaces with our lovely students. If you are interested in participating, here are the following options:
(Not going to share the options for security reasons)
If you would like to participate, please respond back so I can generate a list to send reminders. Thank you in advance and have a great day!”

Just crazy!

Wow. The part about taking photos of the spaces (emphasized before students!) suggests it could be the new owner of the building taking some pics for marketing it. Very bizarre communication

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Anonymous wrote:How is the Campus? Maybe one of these older schools can take advantage, and come in and purchase for an upgrade. Should be able to get a deal on the foreclosure.

If a more stable school is able to purchase, baby they will give preference to the current students and absorb all or most.

Some of y’all really don’t grasp what private education is and is not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How is the Campus? Maybe one of these older schools can take advantage, and come in and purchase for an upgrade. Should be able to get a deal on the foreclosure.

What established school would want a white elephant like that?

[Anonymous]

I’ve been on a prospective parent tour. To me the building felt like a European government office building not a school. Cold, isolating, sterile, full of echoing when people are talking. (I worked for a government ministry in Europe hence my comparison) And, odd brightly colored stairwells that became the way directions were given (to exit, use the red stairwell…)

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve been on a prospective parent tour. To me the building felt like a European government office building not a school. Cold, isolating, sterile, full of echoing when people are talking. (I worked for a government ministry in Europe hence my comparison) And, odd brightly colored stairwells that became the way directions were given (to exit, use the red stairwell…)

I read several articles about the architectural design of the Shenzhen school building that said the goal was to create a kind of "educational factory." The terms "factory" and "industrial" turned up in every article, and the articles seemed to be pretty entirely sourced to the Whittle organization, with Piano as the person whose firm was realizing the Whittle vision.

One described the concept of the building this way: "Conceptually the design of the WSS has been inspired by the simplicity, openness, and efficiency of a factory. Visually, the spaces have an industrial language with exposed services and structure."

Factories aren't exactly warm and fuzzy places.....And it all seems pretty ironic, given that part of Whittle's spiel about his new form of education alwas bashes the early 20th-century model of factory schools as hopelessly out of date and terribly unsuited to kids' learning. Yet at the same time they're deliberately building big cold cavernous spaces. ... I guess I chalk it up to Whittle's longtime obsession with building super-pricey digs for all his enterprises in whatever architectural/design style he sees as especially prestigious and "elite" at the time.

If the Intelsat building echoes with a relatively small number of people in it, I hate to think how it would sound if it ever achieved that 2000-plus student body CW was projecting. A school cafeteria with filled with just several hundred can generate a din that leaves your head ringing for the rest of the day, even if it has no perceptible echo when it's relatively empty.

https://archello.com/project/whittle-school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How is the Campus? Maybe one of these older schools can take advantage, and come in and purchase for an upgrade. Should be able to get a deal on the foreclosure.

What established school would want a white elephant like that?

And who could float a deal in March, staff up, then recruit students for fall 2022 when acceptance letters went out today all over the DMV for established schools?

The Whittle school will be wiped out in business terms, then the next tenant may or may not be a school that could open in fall 2023. But it will have ZERO to do with the previous school. Anyone with that much money at their disposal is not that stupid.

[Anonymous]

Good luck to all Whittle parents waiting on word from other schools today

[Anonymous]

Good luck to all the teachers are interviewing for jobs!

[Anonymous]

Are these acceptance letters from private schools? DCPS lottery results won't be available until April 1st. Definitely a nervous time for parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are these acceptance letters from private schools? DCPS lottery results won't be available until April 1st. Definitely a nervous time for parents.

Private.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve been on a prospective parent tour. To me the building felt like a European government office building not a school. Cold, isolating, sterile, full of echoing when people are talking. (I worked for a government ministry in Europe hence my comparison) And, odd brightly colored stairwells that became the way directions were given (to exit, use the red stairwell…)

Yes because all stairwells in Europe are the same. Especially the government offices.

[Anonymous]

Anyone not coming back after spring break?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone not coming back after spring break?

Seriously, are students going to come back after spring break considering the building foreclosure auction is on March 24th?

I hope the school survives until the end of the current academic year. The school can hopefully end at least a couple of weeks earlier towards the end of May instead of mid-June.

[Anonymous]

Any one have any current updates?

[Anonymous]

No updates we are just praying we can finish the year!!