Anonymous
05/21/2018 13:32
Subject: Re:Whittle School
Anonymous wrote:If you want more information, they have an open house this Sunday, May 20th, on the second floor of Mazza Gallerie from 1-4 pm.
Did anyone go to this? Could you provide further insight or any impressions?
Anonymous
05/21/2018 13:15
Subject: Re:Whittle School
Anonymous wrote:Burke parent here. I have zero worries about it impacting the enrollment of the "fringe" (hilarious!!) independent schools in DC. But I am curious as to how a for-profit school model will work. If the they aren't accredited by NAIS, or have an endowment or board, and their assumed primary mission is profit, where does that leave their educational pedagogy?
I haven't heard much about how or what they are going to teach, just that it will be a Chinese immersion school in the States, and a English immersion school in China. And if they are going to scale up to 2500, with 400 boarders, those students are going to have to come from all over the country. I can't imagine that many DC families shelling out 45K for a for-profit school when there are so many great private and public options already. I don't know of any families who are attracted to for-profit colleges, so why would they want their kids attend a pricey for-profit HS? It just seems sketchy.
In a nutshell you summarized what my husband and I were discussing. There is a lot of flash but unclear substance
Anonymous
05/21/2018 12:54
Subject: Whittle School
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:If they can get kids into good colleges, parents will flock there.
The 2 kids I know who graduated from fusion this year got into great schools: UCLA and Wisconsin.
Chinese parents are looking for Harvard and Stanford.
... and not for athletic fields and other superficialities.
Even if that’s true, doubtful that a strategy based on trying to find 2,500 Chinese students for a school in DC is going to be a successful one...
Agreed. There are roughly 105,000 Chinese Americans in the DC metro area. This school is going to enroll approx. 2.5% of them? Highly unlikely.
Yes... And that too at $45,000 p.a. Flawed planning it seems
Anonymous
05/21/2018 12:21
Subject: Whittle School
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:If they can get kids into good colleges, parents will flock there.
The 2 kids I know who graduated from fusion this year got into great schools: UCLA and Wisconsin.
Chinese parents are looking for Harvard and Stanford.
... and not for athletic fields and other superficialities.
Even if that’s true, doubtful that a strategy based on trying to find 2,500 Chinese students for a school in DC is going to be a successful one...
Agreed. There are roughly 105,000 Chinese Americans in the DC metro area. This school is going to enroll approx. 2.5% of them? Highly unlikely.
Anonymous
05/21/2018 12:12
Subject: Whittle School
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:If they can get kids into good colleges, parents will flock there.
The 2 kids I know who graduated from fusion this year got into great schools: UCLA and Wisconsin.
Chinese parents are looking for Harvard and Stanford.
... and not for athletic fields and other superficialities.
Even if that’s true, doubtful that a strategy based on trying to find 2,500 Chinese students for a school in DC is going to be a successful one...
Anonymous
05/19/2018 18:14
Subject: Whittle School
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:If they can get kids into good colleges, parents will flock there.
The 2 kids I know who graduated from fusion this year got into great schools: UCLA and Wisconsin.
Chinese parents are looking for Harvard and Stanford.
... and not for athletic fields and other superficialities.
Anonymous
05/19/2018 15:43
Subject: Whittle School
have you seen the campus? I supposed if the build over the hilly park they could put in a soccer field.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Where will they play sports, etc.?
There is plenty of space inside the building for a gym and enough outdoor space for a field. It is a big campus and with the billions of Chinese dollars they have already accumulated they can have state of the art everything.
https://www.netassets.org/blogs/net-assets/2018/02/08/global-for-profit-school-targets-dc-china
Anonymous
05/19/2018 13:50
Subject: Whittle School
Anonymous wrote:If they can get kids into good colleges, parents will flock there.
The 2 kids I know who graduated from fusion this year got into great schools: UCLA and Wisconsin.
Chinese parents are looking for Harvard and Stanford.
Anonymous
05/19/2018 13:00
Subject: Re:Whittle School
If you want more information, they have an open house this Sunday, May 20th, on the second floor of Mazza Gallerie from 1-4 pm.
Anonymous
05/19/2018 12:11
Subject: Re:Whittle School
Burke parent here. I have zero worries about it impacting the enrollment of the "fringe" (hilarious!!) independent schools in DC. But I am curious as to how a for-profit school model will work. If the they aren't accredited by NAIS, or have an endowment or board, and their assumed primary mission is profit, where does that leave their educational pedagogy?
I haven't heard much about how or what they are going to teach, just that it will be a Chinese immersion school in the States, and a English immersion school in China. And if they are going to scale up to 2500, with 400 boarders, those students are going to have to come from all over the country. I can't imagine that many DC families shelling out 45K for a for-profit school when there are so many great private and public options already. I don't know of any families who are attracted to for-profit colleges, so why would they want their kids attend a pricey for-profit HS? It just seems sketchy.
I haven't heard much about how or what they are going to teach, just that it will be a Chinese immersion school in the States, and a English immersion school in China. And if they are going to scale up to 2500, with 400 boarders, those students are going to have to come from all over the country. I can't imagine that many DC families shelling out 45K for a for-profit school when there are so many great private and public options already. I don't know of any families who are attracted to for-profit colleges, so why would they want their kids attend a pricey for-profit HS? It just seems sketchy.
Anonymous
05/18/2018 14:17
Subject: Re:Whittle School
Anonymous wrote:I just learned the school is incorporated in the Cayman Islands! It's like an Enron school.
No doubt so that foreign investors can take advantage of tax benefits of offshore incorporation. Not exactly a scandal. It just means that they were sophisticated enough to involve tax lawyers in the structuring.
Anonymous
05/18/2018 11:49
Subject: Re:Whittle School
Having been by this location, I don’t see much in the way of outdoor space for playing fields. What space there is is heaviliy wooded and hilly. But they could maybe access one of the nearby universities’ facilities.
Anonymous
05/17/2018 16:43
Subject: Whittle School
Anonymous wrote:Where will they play sports, etc.?
There is plenty of space inside the building for a gym and enough outdoor space for a field. It is a big campus and with the billions of Chinese dollars they have already accumulated they can have state of the art everything.
https://www.netassets.org/blogs/net-assets/2018/02/08/global-for-profit-school-targets-dc-china
Anonymous
05/17/2018 13:10
Subject: Whittle School
Where will they play sports, etc.?
Anonymous
05/17/2018 11:55
Subject: Whittle School
If they can get kids into good colleges, parents will flock there.
The 2 kids I know who graduated from fusion this year got into great schools: UCLA and Wisconsin.
The 2 kids I know who graduated from fusion this year got into great schools: UCLA and Wisconsin.