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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don’t sign contracts if you can’t pay your bills.[/quote]

Unsophisticated people are not really able to understand a contract like that especially if it is very unintuitive. The mom says that she assumed it would be something more like a month or two of tuition. She also thought that it would be reasonable to make her acceptance contingent on the aid package - and the fact that they made her sign the agreement without knowing the aid was pretty exploitative. Even colleges don’t do it that way. [/quote]

The mom said that she didn't read the contract.  It doesn't matter if it was "unintuitive" if she didn't read it.  She assumed it said something that it didn't. Not sure how that's the school's fault.

The article also said that there was an opportunity for her to withdraw after the financial aid decision, but that she didn't do so.  Again, not sure why the school should be responsible for that.  [/quote]

Because the premise of such contracts that bind you to pay for the whole year, even if you do not attend, or pay a deposit, is exploitative in the extreme. The parent's mistake highlights the root of the problem, which is not of her making, but rather of the greedy and grasping maneuvers that many private schools resort to.[/quote]

If you think about this honestly for about 3 second, you should be able to figure out why it is entirely appropriate for someone who accepts a spot at a school to be liable for the entire year's tuition.

Or maybe you won't be able to.  But that's on you, not the nature of the contract.  It's not a difficult concept.  [/quote]

But it is incumbent on the school -- the party with more information, experience, and power -- to make that abundantly explicit, not just buried in the small print of the contract. [b]A school that is serious about diversity needs to recognize that means prospective parents will have a diverse understanding of how contracts work and ability to read dense legalese.[/b] It's also the school's job to be explicit about what constitutes acceptance of the contract -- because it seems reasonable to think that not paying the required deposit means that the contract wasn't accepted.

I'm glad that the school has not only committed to making things right with this family but is going to consider better communication about its contract, keeping in mind that not everyone has the same background and knowledge.[/quote]

This is your aspirational take on what should happen, not an accurate statement of the law.

And once again, you have no idea whether it is buried in the contract or not, because she didn't read it. [/quote]

PP wasn't trying to be accurate re: the law, they were trying to show that unless you want to be seen as the aggressor, you leave it be.[/quote]

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