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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What both have in common is that they enjoy having things named after them. It would be priceless if the Whittle School campus in China changed its name to disassociate itself from a failed businessman. The Shenzhen campus was no longer affiliated with the DC campus as of September 2021. [/quote]

This is precisely what happened in Suzhou. The school is now called Huitong, which was the Chinese name for the Whittle Schools。The connection with Whittle is apparently completely severed, but who really knows. The Founding head of Whittle Shenzhen also left suddenly, and now the relationship between the Suzhou and Shenzhen schools seems to have deteriorated rapidly.

Apologies, I know this isn’t relevant to most here. But I am living through the start of Huitong Suzhou, and it is astonishingly bad. If the school manages to open next week it will be a minor miracle. It seems the same cronyism, grift, and greed is the motivating factor behind the Chinese partners who once worked with Whittle. Now they’re just stealing the branding materials and structure of the school and curriculum.

A “Global” school that exists only in two disassociated schools in China.

If you don’t understand why people haven’t all abandoned the school, it is a long story mostly focused on the insane bullshit of the China visa and work permit process.

As a teacher I dreamed about joining Avenues or Whittle for years because the ideals and philosophy echo what I think could be the future of education . Maybe for some, it will be… somehow, somewhere, somewhen…

For now, like everyone else associated with Whittle, we are stuck holding the bag, at the cost of our families and sanity.

I am really sorry for those families and teachers that, like me, got caught in the Whittle disaster.[/quote]

So interesting to hear your experience!  Thank you for posting.  I hope the school year goes well, despite shallow investors.  Good luck![/quote]

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