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[quote=Anonymous]Former parent who saw many red flags and corruption…but rode it out for the many reasons many families do…For those unaware, years ago, a house was purchased at 9490 River Road that was going to be the Gold’s personal residence with a school built on the land.  Architects hired (expensive cost and a lawsuit because they weren’t paid) and a frantic request for money.  Many of us never donated and went looking for 990s…but we couldn’t find any at the time - something rotten in Denmark!  The long story short is money raised - close to $500k or more if I recall, but $ never returned AFTER the deal fell through.  Former family in real estate worked on the deal and they abruptly left afterwards.  Apparently there was black mold in the house!  Many of us joked that funds went to pay for daughter’s bat mitzvah and other daughter’s tuition at Holton arms…but really, many of us weren’t kidding!!  We saw many egregious things - charging families $25 for field trips when really they cost nothing (free admission or parents drove)… multiply that by 30 kids -where did $ go?  Also, where did Covid relief funds, PPP money go?  The school never published financials like other private schools, an annual fund update or state of the school info.

Feynman is a part of our past but always frustrated with the lack of transparency and devious, underhanded way they pocketed money for personal use.  I would pursue legal actions if I were there and gather as a group of parents/faculty to work in tandem.  There are a bunch of former faculty, who apparently had to sign NDAs - red flag as who signs an NDA at a school?  Privacy for students is imperative but the NDA covered discussions about operations… there are many individuals who know where the bodies are buried… so it would be easy to gather a trail of evidence or info for an audit.  Clearly closing the doors of a school mid year is breach of contract.  Someone suggested reaching out to press and many local tv stations have consumer/fradulent activity journalists.

So sorry for everyone impacted and sadly, all of us who left periodically checked to see when the doors would close…it was always a question of when not if…[/quote]

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