Will Whittle be around next year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: A direct copy and paste from the April 27 family newsletter:

Important and Very Good News:

Lastly, I would like to mention that on Monday, the Department of Homeland Security approved Whittle School & Studios to issue I-20 visas to students from outside of the United States. This means that we can now recruit students globally and that they do not need to hold a US Passport (a previous restriction).

This has hugely positive implications for our future enrollment growth. (COVID delayed this by almost two years such that we could only accept US passport holders.)

We can now immediately begin recruiting and accepting students from overseas

This should be public information and easily verifiable. Things are on the uprising!

Lol schools do not issue visas. Schools issue the Form I-20. The government issues F-1 visas.

Publicly confirmed here: https://studyinthestates.dhs.gov/certified-school/5153600

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parent of a secondary school student at WSS (won't say MS or US). My child will also not be returning for the next school year. Way too many lies told by CW and his minions. CW has no interest in education or in the well-being of the students and teachers. He is a serial liar and grifter. Back in Spring 2019, I was told that the DC campus was 90% complete, which was a lie. The students had to go to school in an unfinished building, and still to this day, maybe only one pod is occupied. There was a lie about lunches. Just like the MS student said, we were promised chef-made meals for the students. In the school's early Instagram posts, there was even a post about the importance of healthy school lunches. After the start of school did we find out that there was no cafeteria kitchen. Oh another thing, I found it strange that there was no library for an expensive private school. The school's lame statement was that because there is a public library nearby, there was no need for a school library. Excuse me, in DC, public libraries are basically day-time recreational centers for dangerous mentally deranged homeless people.

Just can't deal with CW anymore! Literally the only way to save the school is to kick CW out, rename the school, and being in a new executive team. I feel bad for the students, but I feel worse for the teachers. I hope both the students and teachers have arrangements after June.

The Cleveland Park library is full of a range of books and helpful librarians. It is safe and the homeless people who may spend time there are overwhelmingly harmless. While they may suffer from mental illness, they are not "deranged."

You can complain about Whittle without insulting other people.

Do you think it makes sense for an expensive private school to not have a library, even a small one? Is there another private school that asks parents to pack lunches? Have you been to the West End library? I don't know what it is like there nowadays, but I did not feel safe there even though it is in a safe neighborhood due to the people who use the facility. I have to admit that I don't know what Cleveland Park Library is like. It might be much safer than West End or many public libraries I have been to in other big cities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MS student here. It was an excellent experience academically and friendship wise but let’s just say that I’m glad to go-enough is enough. Most of us are going to near by independent schools that we had to apply to three weeks prior the deadline!! When CW was talking to us, that was my last straw. The constant gorgeous pictures of buildings with a bad foundational plan is crazy. Also, the fact that new families will be recruited through real estate agents(doing the same teacher trick-get people who are coming from afar and have no knowledge about what's going on...) is unsettling. I can't believe that months ago, we couldn’t pay our teachers, and the only main reason our school was able to open after winter break was because of the good parent community. The wifi sucks, and so does the water, we have to bring our own food when we were promised a Michelin chef(which was strange) and don’t have money for essential material resources(art supplies, books, etc.), but it’s AOKAY because we have a new campus in Suzhou and Cyprus!!!! This honesty needs to be a documentary.

US student here — this post is spot on. I’ll add that the Art, Drama and Music classes are truly a sh*tshow, with a severe lack of materials in all classes and a drama teacher who simply does not engage with the kids and teaches the class like a college history course. We’ve been on two X-Days the whole year. The food was abysmal and I’m glad it’s gone. Despite what that one student says a dozen or so pages back, I’m glad the situation is being brought into the light.

Are you returning to WSS?

[Anonymous]

100%

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parent of a secondary school student at WSS (won't say MS or US). My child will also not be returning for the next school year. Way too many lies told by CW and his minions. CW has no interest in education or in the well-being of the students and teachers. He is a serial liar and grifter. Back in Spring 2019, I was told that the DC campus was 90% complete, which was a lie. The students had to go to school in an unfinished building, and still to this day, maybe only one pod is occupied. There was a lie about lunches. Just like the MS student said, we were promised chef-made meals for the students. In the school's early Instagram posts, there was even a post about the importance of healthy school lunches. After the start of school did we find out that there was no cafeteria kitchen. Oh another thing, I found it strange that there was no library for an expensive private school. The school's lame statement was that because there is a public library nearby, there was no need for a school library. Excuse me, in DC, public libraries are basically day-time recreational centers for dangerous mentally deranged homeless people.

Just can't deal with CW anymore! Literally the only way to save the school is to kick CW out, rename the school, and being in a new executive team. I feel bad for the students, but I feel worse for the teachers. I hope both the students and teachers have arrangements after June.

The Cleveland Park library is full of a range of books and helpful librarians. It is safe and the homeless people who may spend time there are overwhelmingly harmless. While they may suffer from mental illness, they are not "deranged."

You can complain about Whittle without insulting other people.

Do you think it makes sense for an expensive private school to not have a library, even a small one? Is there another private school that asks parents to pack lunches? Have you been to the West End library? I don't know what it is like there nowadays, but I did not feel safe there even though it is in a safe neighborhood due to the people who use the facility. I have to admit that I don't know what Cleveland Park Library is like. It might be much safer than West End or many public libraries I have been to in other big cities.

I have no opinion as to whether Whittle should have a library. My point was that the vast majority of homeless people are neither deranged nor dangerous, even if their presence makes you uncomfortable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parent of a secondary school student at WSS (won't say MS or US). My child will also not be returning for the next school year. Way too many lies told by CW and his minions. CW has no interest in education or in the well-being of the students and teachers. He is a serial liar and grifter. Back in Spring 2019, I was told that the DC campus was 90% complete, which was a lie. The students had to go to school in an unfinished building, and still to this day, maybe only one pod is occupied. There was a lie about lunches. Just like the MS student said, we were promised chef-made meals for the students. In the school's early Instagram posts, there was even a post about the importance of healthy school lunches. After the start of school did we find out that there was no cafeteria kitchen. Oh another thing, I found it strange that there was no library for an expensive private school. The school's lame statement was that because there is a public library nearby, there was no need for a school library. Excuse me, in DC, public libraries are basically day-time recreational centers for dangerous mentally deranged homeless people.

Just can't deal with CW anymore! Literally the only way to save the school is to kick CW out, rename the school, and being in a new executive team. I feel bad for the students, but I feel worse for the teachers. I hope both the students and teachers have arrangements after June.

The Cleveland Park library is full of a range of books and helpful librarians. It is safe and the homeless people who may spend time there are overwhelmingly harmless. While they may suffer from mental illness, they are not "deranged."

You can complain about Whittle without insulting other people.

Do you think it makes sense for an expensive private school to not have a library, even a small one? Is there another private school that asks parents to pack lunches? Have you been to the West End library? I don't know what it is like there nowadays, but I did not feel safe there even though it is in a safe neighborhood due to the people who use the facility. I have to admit that I don't know what Cleveland Park Library is like. It might be much safer than West End or many public libraries I have been to in other big cities.

I have no opinion as to whether Whittle should have a library. My point was that the vast majority of homeless people are neither deranged nor dangerous, even if their presence makes you uncomfortable.

When asked about this in the planning stages, Whittle famously said, “The whole school is a library.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parent of a secondary school student at WSS (won't say MS or US). My child will also not be returning for the next school year. Way too many lies told by CW and his minions. CW has no interest in education or in the well-being of the students and teachers. He is a serial liar and grifter. Back in Spring 2019, I was told that the DC campus was 90% complete, which was a lie. The students had to go to school in an unfinished building, and still to this day, maybe only one pod is occupied. There was a lie about lunches. Just like the MS student said, we were promised chef-made meals for the students. In the school's early Instagram posts, there was even a post about the importance of healthy school lunches. After the start of school did we find out that there was no cafeteria kitchen. Oh another thing, I found it strange that there was no library for an expensive private school. The school's lame statement was that because there is a public library nearby, there was no need for a school library. Excuse me, in DC, public libraries are basically day-time recreational centers for dangerous mentally deranged homeless people.

Just can't deal with CW anymore! Literally the only way to save the school is to kick CW out, rename the school, and being in a new executive team. I feel bad for the students, but I feel worse for the teachers. I hope both the students and teachers have arrangements after June.

The Cleveland Park library is full of a range of books and helpful librarians. It is safe and the homeless people who may spend time there are overwhelmingly harmless. While they may suffer from mental illness, they are not "deranged."

You can complain about Whittle without insulting other people.

Do you think it makes sense for an expensive private school to not have a library, even a small one? Is there another private school that asks parents to pack lunches? Have you been to the West End library? I don't know what it is like there nowadays, but I did not feel safe there even though it is in a safe neighborhood due to the people who use the facility. I have to admit that I don't know what Cleveland Park Library is like. It might be much safer than West End or many public libraries I have been to in other big cities.

I have no opinion as to whether Whittle should have a library. My point was that the vast majority of homeless people are neither deranged nor dangerous, even if their presence makes you uncomfortable.

Wait. Did they actually expect all students K-12 to use a library 1 mile down Connecticut from the school? Just typing this I went from how can you expect that of the tuition paying children to why should taxpayers be subsidizing a basic function of a private school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parent of a secondary school student at WSS (won't say MS or US). My child will also not be returning for the next school year. Way too many lies told by CW and his minions. CW has no interest in education or in the well-being of the students and teachers. He is a serial liar and grifter. Back in Spring 2019, I was told that the DC campus was 90% complete, which was a lie. The students had to go to school in an unfinished building, and still to this day, maybe only one pod is occupied. There was a lie about lunches. Just like the MS student said, we were promised chef-made meals for the students. In the school's early Instagram posts, there was even a post about the importance of healthy school lunches. After the start of school did we find out that there was no cafeteria kitchen. Oh another thing, I found it strange that there was no library for an expensive private school. The school's lame statement was that because there is a public library nearby, there was no need for a school library. Excuse me, in DC, public libraries are basically day-time recreational centers for dangerous mentally deranged homeless people.

Just can't deal with CW anymore! Literally the only way to save the school is to kick CW out, rename the school, and being in a new executive team. I feel bad for the students, but I feel worse for the teachers. I hope both the students and teachers have arrangements after June.

The Cleveland Park library is full of a range of books and helpful librarians. It is safe and the homeless people who may spend time there are overwhelmingly harmless. While they may suffer from mental illness, they are not "deranged."

You can complain about Whittle without insulting other people.

Do you think it makes sense for an expensive private school to not have a library, even a small one? Is there another private school that asks parents to pack lunches? Have you been to the West End library? I don't know what it is like there nowadays, but I did not feel safe there even though it is in a safe neighborhood due to the people who use the facility. I have to admit that I don't know what Cleveland Park Library is like. It might be much safer than West End or many public libraries I have been to in other big cities.

I have no opinion as to whether Whittle should have a library. My point was that the vast majority of homeless people are neither deranged nor dangerous, even if their presence makes you uncomfortable.

Wait. Did they actually expect all students K-12 to use a library 1 mile down Connecticut from the school? Just typing this I went from how can you expect that of the tuition paying children to why should taxpayers be subsidizing a basic function of a private school.

The answer to your question is YES.

[Anonymous]

Apparently, there is good news from WSS, but I am very skeptical. CW basically closed in on a deal, but the school is adamant about privacy about the matter. Besides, I heard that 60 international students will come as boarding students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Apparently, there is good news from WSS, but I am very skeptical. CW basically closed in on a deal, but the school is adamant about privacy about the matter. Besides, I heard that 60 international students will come as boarding students.

God help them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Apparently, there is good news from WSS, but I am very skeptical. CW basically closed in on a deal, but the school is adamant about privacy about the matter. Besides, I heard that 60 international students will come as boarding students.

I would suspect that since reporters are starting to be interested Chris could be going into spin overdrive to get ahead of any stories

[Anonymous]

WSS was at risk of being evicted. Now, that doesn't appear to be the case anymore. In a previous Instagram post a while back, WSS bragged about having 1 million square feet of space, but it looks like at least two schools total will occupy the space that WSS leased for with the other school possibly taking up much more space.

[Anonymous]

Current parent, but I am wondering when WSS will send out billing statements. I am curious how much I will be charged. It is almost May, and there are no plans for the upcoming year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Current parent, but I am wondering when WSS will send out billing statements. I am curious how much I will be charged. It is almost May, and there are no plans for the upcoming year.

Is your plan to return as long as the school is open? What grade, if you don't mind sharing?

[Anonymous]

Thank you for sharing, and best of luck in making some difficult decisions for the coming year.