Whittle School

[Anonymous]

A free charter is not the same as a small break on $50k tuition.

You can try out the free thing easier than the still 30-40k thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A free charter is not the same as a small break on $50k tuition.

You can try out the free thing easier than the still 30-40k thing.

Parents who try charter schools are not typically wealthy. For those with very high net worths, perhaps 50K isn't a big deal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A free charter is not the same as a small break on $50k tuition.

You can try out the free thing easier than the still 30-40k thing.

100%. Look, if Whittle wants to offer free tuition for my kids, I'd think about it. But for that kind of cash, or even close to that kind of cash, I want the real deal.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:A free charter is not the same as a small break on $50k tuition.

You can try out the free thing easier than the still 30-40k thing.

Parents who try charter schools are not typically wealthy. For those with very high net worths, perhaps 50K isn't a big deal.

The difference is that those people have many great alternatives. Why would I try Whittle if I could get GDS or Sidwell or a New England boarding school or whatever? Charter schools are drawing kids where the parents don't like the current options.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A free charter is not the same as a small break on $50k tuition.

You can try out the free thing easier than the still 30-40k thing.

Parents who try charter schools are not typically wealthy. For those with very high net worths, perhaps 50K isn't a big deal.

The difference is that those people have many great alternatives. Why would I try Whittle if I could get GDS or Sidwell or a New England boarding school or whatever? Charter schools are drawing kids where the parents don't like the current options.

The question was about whether people would be willing to take a risk on an unproven school, not whether they were willing to pay for one. My point was that yes--there obviously are. Then, I'm sure we all know people (or at least have seen people on this board) who don't like their options (waitlisted etc) and for whom tuition isn't a major concern, and if it is an issue, from what I've heard, Whittle has offered scholarships between 5 and 20k/year, so it's potentially cheaper than independent privates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:[b]T[b]hat link is interesting but doesn't really address who is financing the $185M in renovation. To be clear, the article puts a valuation of $110M on the real estate but says that Whittle is putting $185M into renovating it (which seems preposterous).

No rational investor seeking financial return is going to put up $185M for a school renovation. It's absurd. Again, near as I can tell, they don't even own the building. So if they don't pay their rent, they lose the money. There is no way that the building landlords ponied up $185M in tenant improvement money.

The money absolutely had to come from someone motivated by something other than a financial return and that has the deepest of deep pockets. Hard to see this as someone other than a nation state or quasi-government investment arm.


The money comes from a person but from a COUNTRY that is motivated from other than a financial return. The return would be establishing an intelligence and eavesdropping operation in the middle of NW Washington disguised as a private school. I have no doubt that this operation is being backed financially by the leadership of the Peoples Republic of China. The so called delay in getting the permits for the building renovations gave them enough time to create the infrastructure for their electronic equipment. You will soon see so called exchange students who are really trained operatives infiltrating Washington DC households. Our laws should be changed to screen out operations like this from even opening up.

You made sense, until you suggested that the stop work order was something they and their covert surveillance could actually benefit from.

[Anonymous]

Yes, I agree. I was the initial poster preferring the theory that it was government backed. But, the notion that the zoning problem is some orchestrated act to covertly install surveillance equipment is ridiculous.

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Anonymous wrote:I received an email today about an

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Not.

I hit save by accident and got distracted. As I was saying... I received an email today about attending a parent info session. They are still recruiting for 2019-20.

That was a joke.

Really they’re not as creepy as everyone here thinks. I’m amazed none of the people on waitlists are considering them, especially as they’re giving tuition breaks for the first few years.

It doesn't matter how much they charge or what kind of break they are giving. No one wants to make their kids the guinea pigs in a new, unaccredited institution.

Well, some people do. Lots of folks lined up to try new charter schools, a gamble that often paid off very well.

A free charter school as an alternative to the in-boundary public =/= $51k vaporware school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There were a whole bunch of protesters outside the school with a big banner accusing the construction company of wage theft.

Really? When was this? So now they have a SWO the construction company thinks they don't have to pay workers. I expect Whittle would still have to pay the construction company under the terms of their contract. Which for all the equipment that is standing around, I suppose the workers salary comes last. Another interesting dimension to this big screw up.

[Anonymous]

Do families that had planned to go there have back up options in mind?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A free charter is not the same as a small break on $50k tuition.

You can try out the free thing easier than the still 30-40k thing.

Parents who try charter schools are not typically wealthy. For those with very high net worths, perhaps 50K isn't a big deal.

The difference is that those people have many great alternatives. Why would I try Whittle if I could get GDS or Sidwell or a New England boarding school or whatever? Charter schools are drawing kids where the parents don't like the current options.

I'd consider Whittle if I wanted my kids to get to know hundreds of Chinese princelings.

Thanks but not a priority. If we think many Big 3 kids are spoiled...those princelings are in a different league.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A free charter is not the same as a small break on $50k tuition.

You can try out the free thing easier than the still 30-40k thing.

Parents who try charter schools are not typically wealthy. For those with very high net worths, perhaps 50K isn't a big deal.

The difference is that those people have many great alternatives. Why would I try Whittle if I could get GDS or Sidwell or a New England boarding school or whatever? Charter schools are drawing kids where the parents don't like the current options.

I'd consider Whittle if I wanted my kids to get to know hundreds of Chinese princelings.

Thanks but not a priority. If we think many Big 3 kids are spoiled...those princelings are in a different league.

Yet another example of how many people who use this board don’t actually stop to think about what they are saying and how infantile they sound...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A free charter is not the same as a small break on $50k tuition.

You can try out the free thing easier than the still 30-40k thing.

Parents who try charter schools are not typically wealthy. For those with very high net worths, perhaps 50K isn't a big deal.

The difference is that those people have many great alternatives. Why would I try Whittle if I could get GDS or Sidwell or a New England boarding school or whatever? Charter schools are drawing kids where the parents don't like the current options.

I'd consider Whittle if I wanted my kids to get to know hundreds of Chinese princelings.

Thanks but not a priority. If we think many Big 3 kids are spoiled...those princelings are in a different league.

Yet another example of how many people who use this board don’t actually stop to think about what they are saying and how infantile they sound...

And racist too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A free charter is not the same as a small break on $50k tuition.

You can try out the free thing easier than the still 30-40k thing.

Parents who try charter schools are not typically wealthy. For those with very high net worths, perhaps 50K isn't a big deal.

The difference is that those people have many great alternatives. Why would I try Whittle if I could get GDS or Sidwell or a New England boarding school or whatever? Charter schools are drawing kids where the parents don't like the current options.

I'd consider Whittle if I wanted my kids to get to know hundreds of Chinese princelings.

Thanks but not a priority. If we think many Big 3 kids are spoiled...those princelings are in a different league.

Getting kind of racist.

[Anonymous]

What’s racist about talking about billionaires versus millionaire?