Whittle

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It makes 100% sense to me that the founding families would do whatever what necessary financially and otherwise to keep the school open until their kids graduated. It sounds like no-one was learning much of anything so even a transfer to public would be exceedingly rough on these kids.
I would have done the same for my kids.

Now, if others with younger kids didn't seek out an alternative option for next year mid 21-22 when the school was pooling parent funds to buy food and the like? Well, that's on them. Who in their right mind (if I am frank) would not have secured another option (any option) a long time ago?
And frankly, any public would be better than this. I'm a long time DCPS school parent whose kids ultimately transferred to Big3 privates for high school and guess what? They did well and had learned quite a bit in public.

The problem was that the families of these seniors kept alive the myth that Whittle would be able to weather the storm, when, for everyone else, an orderly plan to wind-down anoounced last December/January would have served them better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Besides the issue of not disclosing your husband is in talks with the competition when signing up to get access to confidential financials, one wonders:

If the former head of school's family accepted significant financial aid on tuition upon his exit, did they get the same treatment as others with the same income level? I think they drove a Mercedes..serious. That would be a serious issue of integrity if so. They couldn't exactly say " we didn't know the income levels associated with different financial aid packages" --

Was the family given free or reduced tuition for their kid in exchange for a quiet exit and the wife (not vetted or background checked like the rest) having a position at the school when the husband was let go? One can imagine Whittle offering a deal like this.

Or did they pay full freight like others of their income level, simply do their best to truly try to help the school and just get caught up in the consequences of a bunch of poor judgements and decisions? While they don't owe any of this information to the public, they probably do owe it to the Maret Board.

What puzzles me is why you would leave your kids at a school at which you no longer wanted to work? I’m having a hard time putting together that scenario.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It makes 100% sense to me that the founding families would do whatever what necessary financially and otherwise to keep the school open until their kids graduated. It sounds like no-one was learning much of anything so even a transfer to public would be exceedingly rough on these kids.
I would have done the same for my kids.

Now, if others with younger kids didn't seek out an alternative option for next year mid 21-22 when the school was pooling parent funds to buy food and the like? Well, that's on them. Who in their right mind (if I am frank) would not have secured another option (any option) a long time ago?
And frankly, any public would be better than this. I'm a long time DCPS school parent whose kids ultimately transferred to Big3 privates for high school and guess what? They did well and had learned quite a bit in public.

The problem was that the families of these seniors kept alive the myth that Whittle would be able to weather the storm, when, for everyone else, an orderly plan to wind-down anoounced last December/January would have served them better.

But why in the world would anyone believe this myth? Who in their right mind would believe that "investors" would step up and throw more good money (to the tune of millions) after bad?
It just blows my mind.
I don't care was telling me that things would miraculously turn around---the board parents, my best friends, the US president or anyone. If the school can't meet it's payroll for months, cannot feed the students, is being sued for millions upon millions of dollars, is on it's umpteenth cohort of teachers then I would get the heck out of there as would
any reasonable person. Heck, I'd have withdrawn my kids long ago for any of these things or even a rumor of these things.
It's really remarkable that anyone fell for any of this.

[Anonymous]

[b][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maret has fallen of our list. It’s just a mind boggling decision. No thanks.[/quote]

Maret has fallen out of most peoples list with the Whittle-Maret pipeline that has been skillfully crafted by the new administration. [/quote][/b]


Current Maret family- we don’t blame you. Am flabbergasted. Everyone knows Bisgaard was current HoS’s last choice- what an FU to her that he got selected

[Anonymous]

How many kids were actually signed up for next year? Does anyone know?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How many kids were actually signed up for next year? Does anyone know?

Not many, less than 40 for sure.

[Anonymous]

Okay we’ve established “things” about the bisgaard family. What’s next? It’s time to move on….seriously. The school had closed and this chat honestly should aswell.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How many kids were actually signed up for next year? Does anyone know?

Mostly lower school families and some middle and upper school ones who were deadly devouts to the mission. Those same MS and US ones(mostly one MS) family are the ones someone talked about earlier. I agree with them 100%. Whatever came out of CWs mouth they would reassure parents and even made a strong comment how they were sticking and staying with whittle. Where are they now?

[Anonymous]

The funniest thing out of this whole chat is that people are focusing on maret and yet no Whittle student minus two who left last year before the bombshell is going there or has been admitted or even applied. There is two schools in particular not big3 but definitely in this independent school pipeline has accepted many teachers and students. One old HOS is going to one of the schools. Maybe change the focus and leave maret out of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How many kids were actually signed up for next year? Does anyone know?

30!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The funniest thing out of this whole chat is that people are focusing on maret and yet no Whittle student minus two who left last year before the bombshell is going there or has been admitted or even applied. There is two schools in particular not big3 but definitely in this independent school pipeline has accepted many teachers and students. One old HOS is going to one of the schools. Maybe change the focus and leave maret out of it.

What schools are you referring to that are partaking in this pipeline, PP?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many kids were actually signed up for next year? Does anyone know?

30!

Curious how you know that?

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous][b][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maret has fallen of our list. It’s just a mind boggling decision. No thanks.[/quote]

Maret has fallen out of most peoples list with the Whittle-Maret pipeline that has been skillfully crafted by the new administration. [/quote][/b]


Current Maret family- we don’t blame you. Am flabbergasted. Everyone knows Bisgaard was current HoS’s last choice- what an FU to her that he got selected[/quote]

Why was he selected then?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Okay we’ve established “things” about the bisgaard family. What’s next? It’s time to move on….seriously. The school had closed and this chat honestly should aswell.

Why? What’s the rush?

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maret has fallen of our list. It’s just a mind boggling decision. No thanks.[/quote]

Maret has fallen out of most peoples list with the Whittle-Maret pipeline that has been skillfully crafted by the new administration. [/quote][/b]


Current Maret family- we don’t blame you. Am flabbergasted. Everyone knows Bisgaard was current HoS’s last choice- what an FU to her that he got selected[/quote]

Why was he selected then?[/quote]


I am not on the board- you’d have to ask them because they were in charge of the selection