SSFS Will Stay Open

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If nobody was ever in denial and nobody missed or ignored anything, how did SSFS go from stability to sudden closure?

You are engaging aggressively on an anonymous forum intended for current parents or people that have some invested interest in the school. You are posting with the assumption that parents have been in denial otherwise the sudden closure wouldn't have happened. Yet the key word in your assumption is "sudden". You very much seem like someone hell bent on proving a point. As such, engaging with you is useless. So, the only other thing I will offer you is this - being in denial and being denied important information are two completely different things. Stop badgering the well meaning parents on here who are still in the midst of important decision making while also experiencing grief and sadness.

There are multiple people asking fair questions about the finances. You don’t want to hear them, and that is understandable—but denying reality isn’t going to save the school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Well, I for one am going to finger point. Sure, these things don't happen over night but I'm absolutely calling out RG and the current BOT as suspects in the failings of this school. I'm sure there are others.

I have long grown weary of parents who act like they are in the know just because they have more communication with RG, SG, and the BOT than the rest of us do. If you're so tight with these folks and feel the suspicions around them are unjust, then enlighten us with your knowledge or call on those folks to set the record straight.

Sounds like it doesn't matter what anyone tells you if it doesn't align with what you think.

How'd you deduce that? The poster is calling out the lack of information.

The poster is making a lot of assumptions given a lack of information, and said that they are "weary of parents who act like they are in the know just because they have more communication with RG, SG, and the BOT than the rest of us do." If you don't have information but don't want to listen to those who have more communication, then...

Whoa, you are leaving out what that poster said. That poster demonstrated a desire to listen to those who have more communication. That poster specifically said that if you have the information then enlighten us with your knowledge or call on the appropriate folds to share it "set the record straight". This is just getting out of hand now with people deliberately leaving out the context of people's posts to stir the pot.

I really recommend that anyone on here who cares about SSFS regardless of whether you are staying, on the fence, or left prior, that we stop engaging with what seems to be a single poster or a small group of posters who are here to intentionally disparage. No, this does not mean I think the school is magical. I think this space has now become unhelpful.

What the poster said was quoted in the response and the full quote from the poster was tagged in the response. No one misrepresented what the poster said.

Full quote from OP: "I have long grown weary of parents who act like they are in the know just because they have more communication with RG, SG, and the BOT than the rest of us do. If you're so tight with these folks and feel the suspicions around them are unjust, then enlighten us with your knowledge or call on those folks to set the record straight." Quote from responding poster: "weary of parents who act like they are in the know just because they have more communication with RG, SG, and the BOT than the rest of us do."

The responding poster left out the entire second sentence from the OP to then make the ridiculous assumption that the OP doesn't want to listen to those who have more communication. Ridiculous. Move on.

In the first sentence the poster basically said they are tired of listening to people who have more communication with certain people. The second sentence then says that if the responder knows so much, they should "enlighten us." The irony is it seemed like other people already tried to "enlighten" and the poster has "grown weary" of that.

Moving on only because you have proved the point that people only hear and read what they want to hear and read.

[Anonymous]

Back atcha. You proved the smug point you were trying to make only about others and not yourself.

[Anonymous]

There are people who are vested in this effort failing. They never thought it would get this far and they continue to project their doubts and negativity.

Parents, Alumni and Supporters... keep pushing! 'They' will continue to move the goal post and act concerned when in reality they want this effort to fail.

[Anonymous]

In < 1 year, we have lost two heads of school and the CFO. We are being asked to assume and understand that the financial problems were years in the making. The board has not met with the parents a single time or held an open forum for questions during all of this chaos. They met last week, and the only reason we know someone new will be on the board is because it's a parent who posted in slack about it - so everything is still fully cloaked in secrecy. And questions about how unacceptable this is - even until today - are met with comments about trying to see how mazing the community is and it is inconsistent with Quaker values to demand answers. Why are so many people ok with this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are people who are vested in this effort failing. They never thought it would get this far and they continue to project their doubts and negativity.

Parents, Alumni and Supporters... keep pushing! 'They' will continue to move the goal post and act concerned when in reality they want this effort to fail.

Oh FFS. The people insisting on candor, transparency, and an honest reckoning of how SSFS got to this point are insisting on it *because* they think it's necessary for success. Otherwise you might buy a year or two of operations on life support, and then fail anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are people who are vested in this effort failing. They never thought it would get this far and they continue to project their doubts and negativity.

Parents, Alumni and Supporters... keep pushing! 'They' will continue to move the goal post and act concerned when in reality they want this effort to fail.

There is literally NO ONE who WANTS this effort to fail. Whether a current parent or one from long ago or even one who left last year, no one is rooting for failure.

You are mixing up skepticism based on a total lack of transparency as “wanting it to fail”. Asking hard questions isn’t sabotaging the effort. Just like asking no questions isn’t support.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are people who are vested in this effort failing. They never thought it would get this far and they continue to project their doubts and negativity.

Parents, Alumni and Supporters... keep pushing! 'They' will continue to move the goal post and act concerned when in reality they want this effort to fail.

Are you trying to motivate people with some kind of imaginary villain?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There are people who are vested in this effort failing. They never thought it would get this far and they continue to project their doubts and negativity.

Parents, Alumni and Supporters... keep pushing! 'They' will continue to move the goal post and act concerned when in reality they want this effort to fail.

There is literally NO ONE who WANTS this effort to fail. Whether a current parent or one from long ago or even one who left last year, no one is rooting for failure.

You are mixing up skepticism based on a total lack of transparency as “wanting it to fail”. Asking hard questions isn’t sabotaging the effort. Just like asking no questions isn’t support.

Are you kidding me? There are posts that literally mocked the efforts of this campaign.

As for transparency, they don't owe it to the general public. They absolutely should be transparent to the stakeholders... not some random person on DCUM who's a busybody.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There are people who are vested in this effort failing. They never thought it would get this far and they continue to project their doubts and negativity.

Parents, Alumni and Supporters... keep pushing! 'They' will continue to move the goal post and act concerned when in reality they want this effort to fail.

There is literally NO ONE who WANTS this effort to fail. Whether a current parent or one from long ago or even one who left last year, no one is rooting for failure.

You are mixing up skepticism based on a total lack of transparency as “wanting it to fail”. Asking hard questions isn’t sabotaging the effort. Just like asking no questions isn’t support.

Are you kidding me? There are posts that literally mocked the efforts of this campaign.

As for transparency, they don't owe it to the general public. They absolutely should be transparent to the stakeholders... not some random person on DCUM who's a busybody.

I’m the parent who posted earlier. Am I a busybody or a stakeholder or neither? Because I haven’t gotten an answer - nor has any parent - for any of the questions mentioned. There is no transparency, and totally out of bounds for the board or anyone else to ask for trust.

[Anonymous]

If you've signed the new contract, congratulation! I love your optimism and hope SSFS succeeds for years and years.

If you're still waiting for answers through that aren't forthcoming at this point, I think it's time to cut loose and find a different school for your child/ren. There will always be public school if none of the privates are a good fit or doesn't have openings at this point.

[Anonymous]

Validation-seeking villains unite! Join, my brethren, in an evil plan to ruin SSFS by demanding transparency and competent leadership!

[Anonymous]

You know, it's hard to know who is posting and what I mean by that is not your identity but rather who is responding to who. It's also hard to know what each poster's motive is for being on this forum. Are you currently connected to SSFS? Were you previously connected to SSFS? Are you just a person curious about the drama of what's happening at this school? Regardless of your motive for being here, there should be some universal things we can all agree on. The first and most important is that we are likely parents and we shouldn't need reminding that parenting is hard including having to make hard decisions about what's best for our kids. There should be more empathy. We should also be able to agree on the fact that reasons for choosing a school, staying at a school, and leaving a school are all highly personal regardless of any drama. Even in response to drama the decision is personal which is why not everyone is leaving nor is everyone staying. We should also be able to agree on the fact that being a thoughtful participant in an online forum requires the self awareness to know that ALL of us interpret anonymous posts with some degree of personal bias. In other words, nobody is completely innocent in the "you hear what you want to hear" debate. I would also hope we can agree that differing opinions doesn't automatically equate to being dismissed. And lastly and more specific to what this thread is about, we should all be able to agree that lack of transparency only creates more tension and drama. So to those of us currently connected to the school, I hope we can join together to continue to put pressure on the BOT to offer more transparency and a visible good faith effort to respond directly to the concerns from the current community.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you've signed the new contract, congratulation! I love your optimism and hope SSFS succeeds for years and years.

If you're still waiting for answers through that aren't forthcoming at this point, I think it's time to cut loose and find a different school for your child/ren. There will always be public school if none of the privates are a good fit or doesn't have openings at this point.

I'm still waiting for answers but I'll decide for myself when and if I think it's time to find a different school. And yes, I already know that public schools exist as an option.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Validation-seeking villains unite! Join, my brethren, in an evil plan to ruin SSFS by demanding transparency and competent leadership!

Wow.