Whittle

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dr Whittle is working on a plan to reopen the School and Studio, talking to investors and donors. This is likely a temporary setback. It’s possible that first the school will relocate to a new city campus. Stay tuned!

HAHAHAHAHA. It’s almost secured, right, PP? Any day now…oops, I mean next week…oops, I mean the week after that, but it’s TOTALLY coming.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What both have in common is that they enjoy having things named after them. It would be priceless if the Whittle School campus in China changed its name to disassociate itself from a failed businessman. The Shenzhen campus was no longer affiliated with the DC campus as of September 2021.

This is precisely what happened in Suzhou. The school is now called Huitong, which was the Chinese name for the Whittle Schools。The connection with Whittle is apparently completely severed, but who really knows. The Founding head of Whittle Shenzhen also left suddenly, and now the relationship between the Suzhou and Shenzhen schools seems to have deteriorated rapidly.

Apologies, I know this isn’t relevant to most here. But I am living through the start of Huitong Suzhou, and it is astonishingly bad. If the school manages to open next week it will be a minor miracle. It seems the same cronyism, grift, and greed is the motivating factor behind the Chinese partners who once worked with Whittle. Now they’re just stealing the branding materials and structure of the school and curriculum.

A “Global” school that exists only in two disassociated schools in China.

If you don’t understand why people haven’t all abandoned the school, it is a long story mostly focused on the insane bullshit of the China visa and work permit process.

As a teacher I dreamed about joining Avenues or Whittle for years because the ideals and philosophy echo what I think could be the future of education . Maybe for some, it will be… somehow, somewhere, somewhen…

For now, like everyone else associated with Whittle, we are stuck holding the bag, at the cost of our families and sanity.

I am really sorry for those families and teachers that, like me, got caught in the Whittle disaster.

So sorry to hear of your experience. Unfortunately, that seems to be the experience of pretty much everyone caught up in CW's schemes except for the early ones who can maybe get some $$ out the door before everything comes crashing down.

[Anonymous]

Any updates?

[Anonymous]

How are the Whittle kids settling in, wherever they landed? Hope all are well. Would love to hear some first person accounts.

[Anonymous]

We got out mid spring semester. Kids are doing very well adjusting to new schools. I won’t say where but they are at a well known boys school. They love it.

[Anonymous]

Did anyone end up at Maret, as alleged in earlier posts?

[Anonymous]

Of course not. Not a single one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Of course not. Not a single one.

If you know this for a fact I’m assuming you’re a Maret admin

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Of course not. Not a single one.

If you know this for a fact I’m assuming you’re a Maret admin

I’m a parent.

What absolute tosh

Of course there are kids at Maret. Ditto the Bisgaards

[Anonymous]

Bisgaards can't believe their luck! So far, no suits. Hide out for a year while the dust settles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We got out mid spring semester. Kids are doing very well adjusting to new schools. I won’t say where but they are at a well known boys school. They love it.

Good for you guys. I hope everyone has similar outcomes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bisgaards can't believe their luck! So far, no suits. Hide out for a year while the dust settles.

The vast majority of people who publicly talk about suing someone never do it, just huffing and puffing. Real costs are involved with real risk analysis about winning and recovering those costs plus something more.

[Anonymous]

Hehehe. The parents committee wishes. Patently untrue. Let’s give it 18 months, shall we and talk then when the suits are filed (mostly on contingency)?

Consumer protection alone is a 2 year window to file and 3x the damages, at least. And don’t say there are no damages. Plenty probable damages, maybe next time don’t lie to the parents, eh?

Hope the book that I hear is in the works comes out about the same time.

[Anonymous]

I don't doubt that there may be some grounds here, but given the late stage of parent committee involvement, I am not appreciating the extent of the damages.

And given what evidence might be required to prove a consumer protection claim (educational experts for at least LS, MS, and HS), would there be any award left over after attorney's fees are accounted for?

Just curious.

[Anonymous]

Perkins Eastman Architects, DPC vs. Whittle, Christopher
New York Supreme Court

Last week architects involved in the Chinese schools among others,  filed against Chris Whittle personally for a whopping $3.8M --seems only $200k of their promissory note was paid back--- in 2017.

According to CEO Magazine Whittle had worked with them for 15 years...so who knows what this money was meant for,  given Whittle's proclivity for grabbing yesterday's cash flow to fund today's debacle.