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[quote=Anonymous]I was at the information session today and asked some basic questions about corporate structure, financial transparency, identification of investors and mechanisms for accountability that one finds with all non-profit and public school systems.  The administrators said that Whittle was a private company and that they would not provide this information (specifically financial statements and the identity of investors)  to prospective parents.  Then a staff member sitting in the audience quickly posed unrelated questions changing the subject and shut down the discussion.  It's clear that they feel very sensitive and vulnerable about these issues and do not have meaningful answers. These are basic relevant questions any prospective parent should ask and information which the school should be willing to provide openly, especially because it is a start-up and with close ties to China.

I was also informed that enrollment is currently less than 200 families with hopes of having only one class per grade level this year. By any standard, that situation does not bode well for early students at the school.

In general, all I saw was a large group of over qualified administration consultant types in very nice clothes and fancy offices, bragging about all of their advanced degrees and  trying to sell a very expensive and speculative pie in the sky deal.  None of them had any experience in starting or running a successful, for profit school system. There were no teachers present.  And there are no classrooms ready for the coming school year.

On the bright side, they said that they will fly their teachers from DC and China to Switzerland this summer for a week of training how to teach kids one-on-one.  Sounds like a nice trip![/quote]

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