Whittle

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Was it worth it for you investment parents to screw all the other parents over, including the prospective parents? So your kids know the other 16 kids who couldn’t get into any other school?

What does this mean? Not following the logic...

My hunch is that the pp meant to ask was it really worth it to knowingly boost a dead entity and incite your parent colleagues to throw good money after bad just to boost the broken school long enough for your own kids to graduate, leaving the rest of the parents holding the empty bag.

Which brings things back around to Maret and their bizarre choice for a new head of school..

[Anonymous]

Who knows what else will come out.

[Anonymous]

I am struggling to understand all the viciousness aimed at a few parents that ensured that teachers could get paid what they were owed and that all children could finish the year. Are these parents of current/formerWSS students complaining? If not what dog do you have in this fight? And on what ground would you sue them anyway?

Same for the former head of school. How is he different from the dozens of other educators that abandoned the project after seeing the direction Whittle was taking? If you are a former teacher/parent, identify his sins. But if it is only his association with whittle, I don't see why so much ink and vinegar is being directed toward him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am struggling to understand all the viciousness aimed at a few parents that ensured that teachers could get paid what they were owed and that all children could finish the year. Are these parents of current/formerWSS students complaining? If not what dog do you have in this fight? And on what ground would you sue them anyway?

Same for the former head of school. How is he different from the dozens of other educators that abandoned the project after seeing the direction Whittle was taking? If you are a former teacher/parent, identify his sins. But if it is only his association with whittle, I don't see why so much ink and vinegar is being directed toward him.

People who had the information and skill to understand the school had virtually no chance of surviving til next year helped it limp along this year — in their own self interest — enabling Chris Whittle to continue his lies and rack up debts. Students who hoped to return next year or students who newly applied (including dozens of international students) are now left with only last-minute options.

Meanwhile, I have trouble respecting anyone who joined this organization at a high level. The “direction” the school would take was clear to those with education and/or start up experience—except those who were blinded by promises of $$$.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am struggling to understand all the viciousness aimed at a few parents that ensured that teachers could get paid what they were owed and that all children could finish the year. Are these parents of current/formerWSS students complaining? If not what dog do you have in this fight? And on what ground would you sue them anyway?

Same for the former head of school. How is he different from the dozens of other educators that abandoned the project after seeing the direction Whittle was taking? If you are a former teacher/parent, identify his sins. But if it is only his association with whittle, I don't see why so much ink and vinegar is being directed toward him.

People who had the information and skill to understand the school had virtually no chance of surviving til next year helped it limp along this year — in their own self interest — enabling Chris Whittle to continue his lies and rack up debts. Students who hoped to return next year or students who newly applied (including dozens of international students) are now left with only last-minute options.

Meanwhile, I have trouble respecting anyone who joined this organization at a high level. The “direction” the school would take was clear to those with education and/or start up experience—except those who were blinded by promises of $$$.

They bragged at the time that they reviewed all the underlying stuff which wasn’t shared with the other parents. Damage easy to prove.

Take Madoff and associates. Accessories? Helpers? Enablers? Conspiracy? Pick an angle. Plenty and Whittle’s emails as paper trail

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am struggling to understand all the viciousness aimed at a few parents that ensured that teachers could get paid what they were owed and that all children could finish the year. Are these parents of current/formerWSS students complaining? If not what dog do you have in this fight? And on what ground would you sue them anyway?

Same for the former head of school. How is he different from the dozens of other educators that abandoned the project after seeing the direction Whittle was taking? If you are a former teacher/parent, identify his sins. But if it is only his association with whittle, I don't see why so much ink and vinegar is being directed toward him.

Same.

[Anonymous]

WBJ article outlines and names the parent committee and the NDA they signed in order to access confidential sensitive financial and (likely )enrollment information --If I was sitting on the board of Whittle I'd be REALLY pissed off that I unknowingly shared negative confidential info with someone married to a candidate actively interviewing for a head of school job with a direct competitor...and likely other schools as well.....but that is what went down among other things..major league bad judgement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am struggling to understand all the viciousness aimed at a few parents that ensured that teachers could get paid what they were owed and that all children could finish the year. Are these parents of current/formerWSS students complaining? If not what dog do you have in this fight? And on what ground would you sue them anyway?

Same for the former head of school. How is he different from the dozens of other educators that abandoned the project after seeing the direction Whittle was taking? If you are a former teacher/parent, identify his sins. But if it is only his association with whittle, I don't see why so much ink and vinegar is being directed toward him.

People who had the information and skill to understand the school had virtually no chance of surviving til next year helped it limp along this year — in their own self interest — enabling Chris Whittle to continue his lies and rack up debts. Students who hoped to return next year or students who newly applied (including dozens of international students) are now left with only last-minute options.

Meanwhile, I have trouble respecting anyone who joined this organization at a high level. The “direction” the school would take was clear to those with education and/or start up experience—except those who were blinded by promises of $$$.

Yep, the administrators who signed on were either fools for buying into a snake oil salesman’s pitch or they wanted a cash grab. Neither quality is one I’d want for someone in charge of my kids, especially for and extra $40k.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:WBJ article outlines and names the parent committee and the NDA they signed in order to access confidential sensitive financial and (likely )enrollment information --If I was sitting on the board of Whittle I'd be REALLY pissed off that I unknowingly shared negative confidential info with someone married to a candidate actively interviewing for a head of school job with a direct competitor...and likely other schools as well.....but that is what went down among other things..major league bad judgement.

I'm confused. Are you saying re the former head who went to Maret-- his spouse was in the parent group that coughed up the funds to get through last year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:WBJ article outlines and names the parent committee and the NDA they signed in order to access confidential sensitive financial and (likely )enrollment information --If I was sitting on the board of Whittle I'd be REALLY pissed off that I unknowingly shared negative confidential info with someone married to a candidate actively interviewing for a head of school job with a direct competitor...and likely other schools as well.....but that is what went down among other things..major league bad judgement.

I'm confused. Are you saying re the former head who went to Maret-- his spouse was in the parent group that coughed up the funds to get through last year?

Yes - his wife (an administrator at the school) sat on the Parent Capital committee

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:WBJ article outlines and names the parent committee and the NDA they signed in order to access confidential sensitive financial and (likely )enrollment information --If I was sitting on the board of Whittle I'd be REALLY pissed off that I unknowingly shared negative confidential info with someone married to a candidate actively interviewing for a head of school job with a direct competitor...and likely other schools as well.....but that is what went down among other things..major league bad judgement.

I'm confused. Are you saying re the former head who went to Maret-- his spouse was in the parent group that coughed up the funds to get through last year?

Yes - his wife (an administrator at the school) sat on the Parent Capital committee

Interesting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hey guise. It's finally here!
Complaint in DC Superior Court filed June 9 for possession of the school premises!!

Free on scribd with trial account
https://www.scribd.com/document/577834756/Is-Whittle-School-Being-Evicted

Complaint alleges only $27,198,133.72 in unpaid rent from April 2020 - May 2022.

I'm sure the Parents Investment Committee will be getting a call soon!

Anyone else remember when Whittle was trying to claim that the debt reorg of the real estate was all part of his "capital plan" and a huge positive?! Guess that spin came crashing down around him in record time..

[Anonymous]

One of the WBJ pieces outlines all the liens and the judgements to date:

https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2022/06/10/whittle-school-liens-lawsuits-contractors.html?s=print

It's pretty astounding.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One of the WBJ pieces outlines all the liens and the judgements to date:

https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2022/06/10/whittle-school-liens-lawsuits-contractors.html?s=print

It's pretty astounding.

In some ways, CW's story seems to have many twists and turns. But in another way, it's always the same, week after week, year after year, decade after decade.

From WBJ -- “It was just every day — vendors and unkept promises,” said a former headquarters worker. “There’s always some big deal that Chris is cooking up that’s supposed to save everything and that never comes through.”

Very sad that so many kids have been swept into his various sagas of irresponsibility and conning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:WBJ article outlines and names the parent committee and the NDA they signed in order to access confidential sensitive financial and (likely )enrollment information --If I was sitting on the board of Whittle I'd be REALLY pissed off that I unknowingly shared negative confidential info with someone married to a candidate actively interviewing for a head of school job with a direct competitor...and likely other schools as well.....but that is what went down among other things..major league bad judgement.

I'm confused. Are you saying re the former head who went to Maret-- his spouse was in the parent group that coughed up the funds to get through last year?

Yes - his wife (an administrator at the school) sat on the Parent Capital committee

Interesting.

Wow? How deep does this go? Did this well connected group help boost the Maret selection in exchange for the spots to transfer to Maret?

Someone should do a full background on the parent committee, money flows, culpability. Lawsuits to follow.