Besides the issue of not disclosing your husband is in talks with the competition when signing up to get access to confidential financials, one wonders:

If the former head of school's family accepted significant financial aid on tuition upon his exit, did they get the same treatment as others with the same income level? I think they drove a Mercedes..serious. That would be a serious issue of integrity if so. They couldn't exactly say " we didn't know the income levels associated with different financial aid packages" --

Was the family given free or reduced tuition for their kid in exchange for a quiet exit and the wife (not vetted or background checked like the rest) having a position at the school when the husband was let go? One can imagine Whittle offering a deal like this.

Or did they pay full freight like others of their income level, simply do their best to truly try to help the school and just get caught up in the consequences of a bunch of poor judgements and decisions? While they don't owe any of this information to the public, they probably do owe it to the Maret Board.

It makes 100% sense to me that the founding families would do whatever what necessary financially and otherwise to keep the school open until their kids graduated. It sounds like no-one was learning much of anything so even a transfer to public would be exceedingly rough on these kids.
I would have done the same for my kids.

Now, if others with younger kids didn't seek out an alternative option for next year mid 21-22 when the school was pooling parent funds to buy food and the like? Well, that's on them. Who in their right mind (if I am frank) would not have secured another option (any option) a long time ago?
And frankly, any public would be better than this. I'm a long time DCPS school parent whose kids ultimately transferred to Big3 privates for high school and guess what? They did well and had learned quite a bit in public.

Anonymous wrote:[The school website still says “accepting applications”.

Yeah, he's probably leaving it there "just in case" he can figure out a way to revive the game. He's pretty long in tooth, but he seems to always have another card up his sleeve.

Anonymous wrote:I knew the school’s closure was inevitable so made plans to move my DC elsewhere. I really did not see the school continue after the 21-22 year.

The school website still says “accepting applications”.

I knew the school’s closure was inevitable so made plans to move my DC elsewhere. I really did not see the school continue after the 21-22 year.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is yours? Wait l, I don’t care, because it’s none of your business. What I do care about is people getting away with consumer fraud amongst other.

Oh you have zero affiliation to either. You’re simply just a troll mistaking yourself as a caring individual.

Firstly, I assure you you’ve got the wrong PP. Secondly, I’d never be directly affiliated with either. But I’m pretty well informed. I don’t actually care either, which is where you are wrong, because I don’t think Whittle collapse entitled anyone to anything except the boarders, the mislead families and teachers and vendors who I think should cast a $ recover between a lot wider.

I care about this story being told accurately. And I’d love to see the comeuppance and for this type of graft to never take hold in our small city again. I know some of these families and I can see that much damage was left in their wake.

I think the Whittle story should be told accurately too. The Wapo story only portrays the now defunct school as being a victim to Covid among other misfortunes when it was the fraud and mismanagement of the school by Chris Whittle and his enablers.

Anonymous wrote:This thread is trash. It is based on some trolls’ unsubstantiated rumors. What hard proof do these peeps have, instead of what they heard?

So much proof. Wait till the discovery states going… oh it’s so sweet when people are too lazy to pick up the phone and leave a written trail everywhere

Payrolls, payments, org charts, LinkedIn, quotes, twitter, children who got the awards so much in addition to dumb plotters plotting via message apps

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is yours? Wait l, I don’t care, because it’s none of your business. What I do care about is people getting away with consumer fraud amongst other.

Oh you have zero affiliation to either. You’re simply just a troll mistaking yourself as a caring individual.

Firstly, I assure you you’ve got the wrong PP. Secondly, I’d never be directly affiliated with either. But I’m pretty well informed. I don’t actually care either, which is where you are wrong, because I don’t think Whittle collapse entitled anyone to anything except the boarders, the mislead families and teachers and vendors who I think should cast a $ recover between a lot wider.

I care about this story being told accurately. And I’d love to see the comeuppance and for this type of graft to never take hold in our small city again. I know some of these families and I can see that much damage was left in their wake.

This thread is trash. It is based on some trolls’ unsubstantiated rumors. What hard proof do these peeps have, instead of what they heard?

Anonymous wrote:What is yours? Wait l, I don’t care, because it’s none of your business. What I do care about is people getting away with consumer fraud amongst other.

Oh you have zero affiliation to either. You’re simply just a troll mistaking yourself as a caring individual.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The thread name is Whittle. Whittle School is no more. Since everyone here seem to complain about Dennis Bisgaard, former Whittle HoS and incoming HoS at Maret in 2023, can the thread name just be changed to Maret HoS then?

Trivialize to distract. No. The super interesting story here isn’t Whittle is still a crook, having been one since the 1980s. The really interacting story is about 4-5 couples in the middle of this mess who profited one way or another while everyone else got shafted

Are you talking about some families on the Whittle Parents’ Committee? How exactly did they profit? I think these parents were just trying to make sure their children could graduate.

What is yours? Wait l, I don’t care, because it’s none of your business. What I do care about is people getting away with consumer fraud amongst other.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The thread name is Whittle. Whittle School is no more. Since everyone here seem to complain about Dennis Bisgaard, former Whittle HoS and incoming HoS at Maret in 2023, can the thread name just be changed to Maret HoS then?

Trivialize to distract. No. The super interesting story here isn’t Whittle is still a crook, having been one since the 1980s. The really interacting story is about 4-5 couples in the middle of this mess who profited one way or another while everyone else got shafted

What is your affiliation, either to Whittle or Maret?

And possibly the only chance for the aggrieved parties to collect some $ cause it ain’t coming from Whittle/the Whittle

Anonymous wrote:The thread name is Whittle. Whittle School is no more. Since everyone here seem to complain about Dennis Bisgaard, former Whittle HoS and incoming HoS at Maret in 2023, can the thread name just be changed to Maret HoS then?

Trivialize to distract. No. The super interesting story here isn’t Whittle is still a crook, having been one since the 1980s. The really interacting story is about 4-5 couples in the middle of this mess who profited one way or another while everyone else got shafted