Whittle

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Please find a remedial class on punctuation, especially the use of the period.

[Anonymous]

Agree Whittle is a fraud and a con man who announces first then tries to backfill to make it happen. The DC AG let this happen under his watch despite constant filings. The story as to why- has still not completely come out.

Don’t understand why Chris Whittle isn’t in jail. Why no one sued him for fraud. ( loads of lawsuits but none for fraud). Why he’s even allowed to operate after embezzling millions from lenders, his wife’s funds and hard working families who handed him cash flow he claimed he had already raised.

That said - Baret Scholars is brilliant. There’s no infrastructure cost to this program. Just staffing cost. He doesn’t need to bankrupt a bunch of contractors to retrofit a bad sad building. He’s gotten his old friend education venture capitalist Michael Moe ( who sat on Whittle Board and encouraged the con to anyone who asked) to help legitimize the venture. And if you actually watch some of the application videos from prospective students on YouTube they are very impressive.

As a stand alone program it’s potentially viable. The catch is that Whittle and his old cronies who have lied and stolen from anyone that came their way, shouldn’t be allowed to operate anything. Yet the cat seems to have gotten a 10th life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Agree Whittle is a fraud and a con man who announces first then tries to backfill to make it happen. The DC AG let this happen under his watch despite constant filings. The story as to why- has still not completely come out.

Don’t understand why Chris Whittle isn’t in jail. Why no one sued him for fraud. ( loads of lawsuits but none for fraud). Why he’s even allowed to operate after embezzling millions from lenders, his wife’s funds and hard working families who handed him cash flow he claimed he had already raised.

That said - Baret Scholars is brilliant. There’s no infrastructure cost to this program. Just staffing cost. He doesn’t need to bankrupt a bunch of contractors to retrofit a bad sad building. He’s gotten his old friend education venture capitalist Michael Moe ( who sat on Whittle Board and encouraged the con to anyone who asked) to help legitimize the venture. And if you actually watch some of the application videos from prospective students on YouTube they are very impressive.

As a stand alone program it’s potentially viable. The catch is that Whittle and his old cronies who have lied and stolen from anyone that came their way, shouldn’t be allowed to operate anything. Yet the cat seems to have gotten a 10th life.

$64,500 in tuition (plus $30,000 in fees/room and board) and no college credit earned?

[Anonymous]

needs Netflix documentary

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Agree Whittle is a fraud and a con man who announces first then tries to backfill to make it happen. The DC AG let this happen under his watch despite constant filings. The story as to why- has still not completely come out.

Don’t understand why Chris Whittle isn’t in jail. Why no one sued him for fraud. ( loads of lawsuits but none for fraud). Why he’s even allowed to operate after embezzling millions from lenders, his wife’s funds and hard working families who handed him cash flow he claimed he had already raised.

That said - Baret Scholars is brilliant. There’s no infrastructure cost to this program. Just staffing cost. He doesn’t need to bankrupt a bunch of contractors to retrofit a bad sad building. He’s gotten his old friend education venture capitalist Michael Moe ( who sat on Whittle Board and encouraged the con to anyone who asked) to help legitimize the venture. And if you actually watch some of the application videos from prospective students on YouTube they are very impressive.

As a stand alone program it’s potentially viable. The catch is that Whittle and his old cronies who have lied and stolen from anyone that came their way, shouldn’t be allowed to operate anything. Yet the cat seems to have gotten a 10th life.

$64,500 in tuition (plus $30,000 in fees/room and board) and no college credit earned?

As an educator, I'm intrigued by this and any disruptive model of education just as thought experiments and also as competition to the status quo. However, the "high production values" language (traveling TED talk sounds like it's made for people with very short attention span) and the cost rub me the wrong way. It seems like a Grand Tour for the very rich, when people used to just organize that themselves. If you can't figure out how to travel and meet cool people and learn stuff for 100,000 a year, I guess join this program? Basically a travel agency with the promise of introductions to some interesting people, for a price? I am thinking of how WC Fields said he wouldn't want to belong to any club that would accept him, what person would want to belong to this program?? Affluenza-ish and off putting. Reminds me of the We Work educational side venture.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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 🤮

No one at whittle was paid for a long time/at all during the final year. Get your facts together.

The poster was talking about them getting fat checks from Maret. Read to understand before telling people to get the facts together.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:needs Netflix documentary

Yes!

[Anonymous]

Anyone knows how the Shenzhen campus is doing?

[Anonymous]

Maret isn’t that hot

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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 🤮

No one at whittle was paid for a long time/at all during the final year. Get your facts together.

The poster was talking about them getting fat checks from Maret. Read to understand before telling people to get the facts together.

The wife of the current HoS at Maret was absolutely getting paid.

[Anonymous]

That’s certainly what everyone said at the time and they for sure never said a bad word about Whittlr but appeared to con everyone long enough for their own kid to graduate.

Blech 🤮 indeed

[Anonymous]

Baret Scholars might be Chris Whittle’s most successful venture so far. It looks like the gap year program met its target number of recruits for the year. Wonder how long this one will last. I guess it is easy to scam students based outside of the U.S.

[Anonymous]

Sounds great.

https://sundayguardianlive.com/featured/chris-whittles-baret-scholars-program-starts-its-first-global-gap-year

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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 🤮

No one at whittle was paid for a long time/at all during the final year. Get your facts together.

The poster was talking about them getting fat checks from Maret. Read to understand before telling people to get the facts together.

The Wife was. 100%
You could argue it was in kind.
Whatever
Remedial class on integrity for both of them.

[Anonymous]

Shame on you Maret Board