***Andrews Osborne Academy UNETHICAL BUSINESS PRACTICES!!!
https://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/andrews-osborne-academy/willoughby-ohio-44094/andrews-osborne-academy-unethical-business-practices-willoughby-ohio-1429081
This letter is being written to inform anyone doing business or form
part of the staff or pupils about the unethical business practices
that the Andrews Osborne Academy located at 38588 Mentor Ave,
Willoughby, OH 44094 USA carries out on a daily basis.
We came to this "highly rated" academy to enroll our sophomore son
from China to learn and assimilate the language and culture of the
beautiful USA.
They made us pay up front a full year of tuition amounting to
$48,143.04, soon after while still in China our son felt very ill and
had to be hospitalized, after several days of being in hospital and
there not being any positive prognosis or alleviation of our son's
aliment, we realized that the admission date was soon approaching and
my son wouldn't be able to attend Andrews Osborne Academy afterall, or
travelling to the USA at all.
We contacted the school administrator Larry Goodman PhD, to see if it
would be possible to have the tuition fee refunded, to which he said
that my son's illness is not severe enough, and that it wouldn't be
possible to get a full refund. After providing hospital records and
medical records attesting to the poor health of my son, he refunded
half of the said tuition, but kept $24,071.52. Stating that my son's
illness is not severe enough to justify not coming to school, that is
thousands of miles away. They are not medical professionals and I
doubt how they could assess my son's illness without even diagnosing
him. For them to keep half of the tuition is a totally unjust
enrichment.
The main purpose of this letter is to state that we wanted our son to
attend Andrews Osborne Academy and he was ultimately unable to attend
due to an unforeseen illness, not due to his or our consciousness or
sudden change of heart. We still feel that a "full" refund was due and
we did not obtain.
Unfortunately, illnesses are generally unforeseen and we had full
intent to have our son attend the school.
No consideration was given because we are from a foreign country and
we are unfamiliar with this school method of operation. We were in the
understanding that, if you sell a product or provide a service, you
would need to be compensated for that. But in this case, no service
will ever be provided, and a full refund should be due.
Beware that if you ever find yourself in this situation if for some
sort of reason, you need to withdraw your child's enrollment to do it
immediately or you may find yourself in a similar problematic
predicament.
It seems that Andrews Osborne Academy main goal is to make money and
the well-being and best interest of their students are secondarily.
Their actions of refusing to refund tuition is tantamount to highway
robbery. read more