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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Email sent out to parents tonight from new HoS

I want to make you aware of an article in the Washington Post today that reports how Sandy Spring Friends School pursued legal action for non-payment against a preschool parent who accepted, but ultimately did not enroll, at our school.

Though financial stewardship is a priority for our school, the approach taken to resolve this matter at the time by the prior administration was misguided, and does not reflect the community values of SSFS. I have contacted the parent to apologize on behalf of the School, and to let her know that SSFS will not be seeking any tuition payments from her.

While the staff members involved in pursuing legal action in this case are no longer employed at the School, Sandy Spring Friends School is now reviewing how and why the decision to pursue this legal action was made. In the coming weeks, I will also be studying and revising admissions contract procedures and business office practices.

As I begin my new leadership of the School, I am committed to ensuring that Sandy Spring Friends School’s practices align with our founding Quaker values.[/quote]

I mean…they only just now made this decision? After the article came out? Ok.[/quote]

Hasn’t their leadership almost
completely turned over since they went to court?  [/quote]

Yes, but the new leadership would have been well aware of the situation. It’s not like they found out about it when the article went to press. They easily could have chosen not to pursue payment from this woman before now. They’re only doing the right thing now because of the negative publicity from the article.[/quote]

This is an unfair take. We don’t know whether he knew about the lawsuit, nor do we know if the school was aware of this article. Don’t you think if he knew about it and wanted to drop the lawsuit he’d have done so before the article was published? What good did it do to wait until the article was published to then drop the suit? None. The PR damage is done…

His predecessor enforced this lawsuit. The court decision was rendered before he started on July 1st. I would not be surprised had she not mentioned it during the transition. [/quote]

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