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Anonymous
*standing and applauding* We prosecute petty crimes and let major thieves go to steal again. |
Anonymous
| No one at maret has a problem with them, they are actually very kind... |
Anonymous
| Speak for yourself. Their kindness somehow always correlates with getting a fat paycheck. She stayed at Whittle to the bitter end, soliciting money from the other parents. He’s a story onto himself. There are a bunch of parents who think yuck 🤮 |
Anonymous
The wife isn’t really around. As for him, yes he’s nice but pretty spineless |
Anonymous
Former Whittle family here. I did not know that this thread was still continuing. Thankfully, we were not screwed over by Whittle financially as my student was attending on a very generous financial aid. I made arrangements to transfer my student elsewhere before the school suddenly shuttered in July 2022. In the 2021-22 year, I got so tired of reading emails about the imminent threat of closure and begging for more money that I knew that this scheme would not be able to continue. My student and most of his former classmates at Whittle have ended up at many great universities like the Ivy League, top liberal arts colleges, and UVA. It seems like the people screwed over the most are the teachers who probably have never been paid for the last few months of the Whittle venture. I can’t believe that Chris Whittle has quickly moved on to some bs gap year program that is about traveling to the seven regions of the world. I went to the Baret Scholars website to download the book about the gap year program, but did not receive the content in my email. When I saw that the email I got from the website was missing the attachment, I remembered just talk and no substance like the former Whittle School. I bet that gap year bs is going to flop too just like all of Chris Whittle’s former ventures. The program is currently admitting students for the 2024-25 cohort. Who knows, he might send out emails to the students’ families in the middle of their journey across the seven regions of the world that they need to send more money to ensure their students’ safe arrival back to the port of origin. Or, this so called gap year trip probably won’t be able to make it to the very end.
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Just out of curiosity, went to Baret Scholars website to get more info by filling out the inquiry form. Here is the email response I got from the Head of North America:
"Thank you for your interest in our global gap year program that takes 180 students from around the world on an immersive journey of educational exploration through 7 different regions of the world — North America, Latin America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, India and China. Beginning in September 2024, students will gain unprecedented insights about each region through local experts and professionals in a highly curated morning program, complemented by educationally-themed fellowships and exploring the different parts of the country in smaller groups with their thematic advisors." I guess Chris Whittle assumes he won't be able to scam students in the U.S. anymore, so has now moved on to scam international students. I highly doubt this Baret Scholars nonsense will be able to recruit 180 students. The former Whittle School in DC had just a little over 100 students in K-12. |
Anonymous
None of the students we know that went to Whittle (and had to suddenly go elsewhere for Senior year) are at T20 schools. Most not even T50. |
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How many do you know?
Maybe a lot are Baret Scholars? |
Anonymous
Sounds like the ppp got out early. |
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None of the students we know that went to Whittle (and had to suddenly go elsewhere for Senior year) are at T20 schools. Most not even T50.
You're mistaken. Whittle sent 5 students to Ivies and many more to top LACs across the US. |
Anonymous
You're mistaken. Whittle sent 5 students to Ivies and many more to top LACs across the US. Well, at least they would have had great essay topics. |
Anonymous
No one at whittle was paid for a long time/at all during the final year. Get your facts together. |
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On the bright side, the new con's marketing material didn't require much of a rewrite. His trademark -- It'll give you EVERYTHING and be EASY and FUN and even kind of cheap (at its high price) considering you're getting EVERYTHING ...... Read again now, in a slightly different form, his whole career-long schtick that should always trigger the "If it sounds too good to be true it probably is" response but sadly doesn't for many people appears as such an obvious con....Unfortunately most people who see this book won't know enough about his many similar unkept promises in the past not to fall for it. But I expect that isn't the case.....Good reason for the con artist to seek his new marks outside the U.S.
The Baret Program BARET SCHOLARS is an intense experience not a course. There is a great deal of learning but no professors. There are deliverables, but no homework. This will be a year of much reading, but there is no required text. Students will reflect on their year, but there are no tests. As one gap year proponent said, “This is not a year off, but a year very much on.” Hundreds of discussions with students, families, schools and universities tell us that students want a mix of curated, structured programs and independent exploration. Baret delivers on that, providing a combination of the well planned and the spontaneous, detailed in the pages of this book. Knowing that students learn in their own ways, the Baret experience is built from a recipe of approaches. Sometimes the 180 student cohort functions together, sometimes as student groups of 12, often one-on-one with Fellows, and through completely independent work. Curated and Structured IF BARET Scholars were a university—and we know it isn’t—we’d like you to think of it as a dual Masters program in International Affairs and Life Design, not after a BA but before it, and hopefully beyond it. In addition to Afternoon Options, there are three curated portions: THE MORNING PROGRAM. Organized by Baret’s Global and Country teams, the Morning Program in each country brings 35 experts in front of our students, a total of 250 thought leaders across the year. Monday through Thursday during each of the 3 weeks in the 7 Home Base cities, Baret organizes a 3-hour program for the entire cohort. Think of this as a traveling, TED-like, conference which immerses Baret students in the culture, politics, arts, businesses, and economies of each region. As content rich as the best of college courses, it differs dramatically in “production value.” With Peabody Award winning experience amongst our team, we combine engagement, entertainment, and education through talks, discussions, interviews, student participation and performances, which provide intellectual windows into these regions along with inspiring models to think about themselves and design their own lives. FELLOWSHIPS: 105 TO CHOOSE FROM. Through the year, Baret will offer 105 different Fellowship programs as electives for its students, 15 possibilities in each of the 7 regions. Led by a Baret Fellow and limited to 12 students each, the Fellowships are 10- day programs organized around different interests from innovation to civilization, to nature to culture. All Fellowships occur outside the Home Base cities on the Baret route giving students experiences well beyond the world’s mega cities. Students can experience the small towns and wilderness areas of China and Africa, the entrepreneurism and art of the Americas, and the history and environmental concerns of some of the Fellowships are offered in adjacent countries including, to name a few, Mexico, Argentina, Peru, Greece, Jordan, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Ghana, South Africa, Tanzania, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Vietnam and Korea. ADVISING: Except weekends, there is a 30 minute, daily “House” meeting for students and their Fellow to catch up and share experiences and problems. Additionally, each week, Baret students also meet one-on-one with their assigned Fellow. Modeled after the Oxford/Cambridge tutorial system, these sessions provide students with life design techniques, college preparation, and inspiration for their independent projects. Using well researched techniques, Fellows help students plan to get the most from their coming college experience and imminent adult lives. Key deliverables include Fellows- led-initiatives called “Designing your College Years” in the fall and “Designing your Life” in the spring. |
Anonymous
| I thought Whittle has been closed for a long time. Why is this post still relevant? |
Anonymous
Chris Whittle has started a new educational business venture (read: scam) that seems to borrow from his usual Whittle playbook. Read the most recent posts about it! |