Will Whittle be around next year?

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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?

PP — No.

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I don't see how 60 international students....OR a charter school....is actually going to help the financial situation. They have tens of millions in debt and a gigantic still-unfinished building in a high-rent district that originally required at least a thousand student paying a top-tier tuition to finance.....60 international students and the money charter schools get per student couldn't possibly pay all that -- even if they continued their tradition of not paying teachers, not providing lunch and not buying equipment or supplies.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't see how 60 international students....OR a charter school....is actually going to help the financial situation. They have tens of millions in debt and a gigantic still-unfinished building in a high-rent district that originally required at least a thousand student paying a top-tier tuition to finance.....60 international students and the money charter schools get per student couldn't possibly pay all that -- even if they continued their tradition of not paying teachers, not providing lunch and not buying equipment or supplies.

Amen. 60 kids at full boarding freight is sub $5 million total. Or about 1/6th of what normal rent would be for the building..

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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

+1,000

Cyprus... I-20.... F-1 students... Suzhou... 60 boarders.... top secret deal "almost in hand".. Charter School.... The word cloud in his latest baffle with BS is taking shape! And it will undoubtedly baffle a few gullible ones who will discover to their dismay what Chris is about soon enough

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What is the school that will share the space? Anyone know?

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Anonymous wrote:What is the school that will share the space? Anyone know?

Friendship schools.

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Anonymous wrote:What is the school that will share the space? Anyone know?

Friendship schools.

A new campus for the school? Or just elements of their programs to be located there (which is what I had thought from earlier communication)

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So, there is news about Friendship Charter occupying the school building, but I don't understand why MR emphasized not forwarding this particular email. He touted this plan as some breakthrough. There are still no billing or other operational plans for the upcoming year. I wonder what next year will look like after Friendship comes in.

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Anonymous wrote:So, there is news about Friendship Charter occupying the school building, but I don't understand why MR emphasized not forwarding this particular email. He touted this plan as some breakthrough. There are still no billing or other operational plans for the upcoming year. I wonder what next year will look like after Friendship comes in.

It IS a breakthrough! As soon as the school building is filled with FCS students, CW will immediately resume investor campus tours and show them how amazingly full WSS is, practically bursting at the seams with enrollment!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So, there is news about Friendship Charter occupying the school building, but I don't understand why MR emphasized not forwarding this particular email. He touted this plan as some breakthrough. There are still no billing or other operational plans for the upcoming year. I wonder what next year will look like after Friendship comes in.

It IS a breakthrough! As soon as the school building is filled with FCS students, CW will immediately resume investor campus tours and show them how amazingly full WSS is, practically bursting at the seams with enrollment!

Lol 😆. Seems like CW's plan. I am so fed up with CW and MR. CW has been a fraud this entire time and squandered money on unnecessary things like a multimillion dollar retreat to Switzerland back in Summer 2019 and on student presents in Fall 2019. My kid said that the presents were great, but did nothing to contribute to the educational value. They said that the student presents had thr name Whittle plastered all over.

[Anonymous]

To the parents or students of Upper School, are you thinking about returning to WSS for fall 2022? I am deliberating on whether I need to pull out my child. There is no transparency about the school's upcoming plans.

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Anonymous wrote:To the parents or students of Upper School, are you thinking about returning to WSS for fall 2022? I am deliberating on whether I need to pull out my child. There is no transparency about the school's upcoming plans.

155 pages in, you're still on the fence about staying or going?? 🤦‍♂️

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Anonymous wrote:To the parents or students of Upper School, are you thinking about returning to WSS for fall 2022? I am deliberating on whether I need to pull out my child. There is no transparency about the school's upcoming plans.

155 pages in, you're still on the fence about staying or going?? 🤦‍♂️

When I just consider my own opinion, I would definitely leave, but then my kid is reluctant to transfer. I am in the process of persuading my kid to leave and that they will adjust fine elsewhere.

Your question makes it sound like everyone is leaving.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:To the parents or students of Upper School, are you thinking about returning to WSS for fall 2022? I am deliberating on whether I need to pull out my child. There is no transparency about the school's upcoming plans.

155 pages in, you're still on the fence about staying or going?? 🤦‍♂️

When I just consider my own opinion, I would definitely leave, but then my kid is reluctant to transfer. I am in the process of persuading my kid to leave and that they will adjust fine elsewhere.

Your question makes it sound like everyone is leaving.

Aren't they? With fewer than 150(?) total in the HS, and the numbers who've said they're leaving on this site alone (FWIW), it seems like there's a pretty steady stream out the door.

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Anonymous wrote:So, there is news about Friendship Charter occupying the school building, but I don't understand why MR emphasized not forwarding this particular email. He touted this plan as some breakthrough. There are still no billing or other operational plans for the upcoming year. I wonder what next year will look like after Friendship comes in.

It IS a breakthrough! As soon as the school building is filled with FCS students, CW will immediately resume investor campus tours and show them how amazingly full WSS is, practically bursting at the seams with enrollment!

Friendship was already there with limited STEM/Arts programming as part of a gifted/talented program and meeting space for online students. It’s not the site of a new Friendship campus. Though honestly charter/public what school could really fill the Inteslstat building? The space is too large and too costly.