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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What sort of weirdo checks the Montgomery County Courts docket for suits against all the area private schools?  Do you check the DC, Fairfax and PG courts too?

To really make a valid comparison would require exhaustive research - or you could just shoot from the hip and hope you don't get called on your sloppy research.  [/quote]
Feel free to try to prove me wrong. Barrie has probably 10x more filings than other schools.

Can you answer the question of why?[/quote]
GDS has 3.5x more filings than any other school in DC.   Can you prove me wrong?[/quote]
Yes, I can easily prove you wrong.  Below are links to the MD, DC, and VA state court dockets.  You can simply plug in the names "Barrie" and "Georgetown Day" to see how many cases each school has been filed.  You'll want to be sure to search for only those cases where the school was a plaintiff, so you can eliminate situations where the school was simply identified as an "other party" when, for example, an employee of the school has been sued and the school is listed as a "wage garnishee."  You also will want to look at the names of the defendants to eliminate those situations where, for example, the school sued a construction company that performed shoddy work.  It may sound hard, but it's actually pretty easy to focus on just those cases where the school was suing an individual.

When I do that, I see [u]well over 100 cases[/u] where Barrie School sued individuals.  If you look at a few of them, you can see they're all actions based on a contractual dispute (i.e., the tuition agreement), and the amount Barrie seeks from each person is about what one would expect for tuition.  When I do a similar search for Georgetown Day, I find [u]not even one single case[/u].

The disparity is even more amazing when you think of how many fewer families Barrie serves than GDS.  Since GDS is much bigger, you'd expect them to bring more lawsuits like that, but it's Barrie in the lead.  It sure looks like Barrie has a pattern of suing parents.  Why?  I'm not sure.  My total speculation is that families become frustrated with Barrie and leave mid-year.  Maybe you've got a better explanation?

http://casesearch.courts.state.md.us/inquiry/inquirySearchParam.jis
https://www.dccourts.gov/cco/maincase.jsf
http://www.courts.state.va.us/caseinfo/

It's disappointing you'd choose to lie about Barrie's record, and make such a false accusation about GDS.  Perhaps that is further demonstration of what parents should expect from Barrie.[/quote]

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