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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Has anyone asked them?[/quote]

The SJC administration must be well aware of what is going on in these programs. 5 students left in the middle of the year because they were not being allowed to play on the school baseball team because they did not pay to play in the coach’s travel program. These 5 are now all at other schools. At our school you have to sign a contract obligating you to pay tuition for the entire year even if your student leaves mid year. I’d think in the case at SJC, the school had to let the parents out of the contract, or the parents refused to pay given the circumstances. HOS’s know about these kinds of things. I’d like to know what kind of response these parents got from the HOS/administration.[/quote]

I wanted to know the answer to that question too so I called one of the parents involved.  They told me the following:

The school did, in fact, try to hold the parents to the tuition contract and withheld the kids transcripts.  Because this hindered their ability to transfer, the parents quickly lawyered up.  Their lawyer accused the school of breaching the contract (didn’t let the kids participate on the baseball team because they refused to pay the coach’s personal business).  The lawyer also informed the school that they were violating IRS laws that threatened their non-profit status.  Evidently it’s against the law for an employee of a non-profit to leverage that entity for personal gain, which seems rather obvious to me.

The parent said the school’s lawyer quickly capitulated so they must know they are in the wrong.  My question on this subject now is will the school continue to allow the coach to violate the law or will they just hope these five go away quietly and keep allowing the coach to run his business through the school.[/quote]

I hope they went past the school and also made the LaSallian order aware of what is going on.[/quote]

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