John, I find it hysterical that your repeatedly post responses to my post from over a year ago and then when I dispute then with actual quotes from your emails to me you delete your responses.
A direct quote from your email to me about the union families "we have provided a huge tuition discount to members of the Local 1776 union, because their Local, basically, lied to them and ended their child care benefits. Because we value these families, we know they don't make substantial incomes, and we felt bad for how their own union had treated them.". This is different from at least a few different responses you have posted here and then deleted and now post again.
You said to me in an email "We'd like to find a way for ya u to stay with us, but that would not include a 100% refund of tuition. Around half, yes, but not all.". I them withdrew my children and you later sent tadpoles memo stating "We have received a great deal of push back from some of our families regarding our tuition proposals last
Friday, insisting that they will not pay any tuition at all during the period we are ordered to close by the
PA government. Some families did react favorably, but again, about half said no, they will not pay
anything at all.". So I was clearly not the only parent who found your initial plan unreasonable, rather I was one of about half of your clients at the time who said that.
You initially responded to this saying that I was a former employee but then annoyed that you "misremembered" which was corrected by a conversation with the director who apparently isn't even there any longer. You also had posted information about my family's financial status on facebook which I deleted. You are a terrible person to post anything negative about a child, and anyone reading this should take your statement as all the evidence they need to avoid ALL ELCA centers at all costs.
Further, John, you don't even know my children. The first conversation I ever had with you was about the tuition during the closure and the only time I spoke to you via phone you hung up without answering my question. You never spoke to me once about my children. I held them back because I have high expectations and set them up for success. In fact, your director at the time was shocked when I told her, as she said he was one of the brightest in the class. Since the pre k room didn't have a consistent teacher for more than a couple months and the assistant director was trying to fill that job, pre k teacher and mom to one of the kids in the class, it was impossible to actually educate the children. You had a phenomenal teacher in that room in the beginning but failed to retain her. If nothing else, the manner in which you respond to criticism speaks volumes as to why I'd recommend avoiding any business owned by you. If your business is so successful, why do you oppose OCDEL providing subsidy payments on actual attendance? Shouldn't you only get paid for kids you're actually taking care of? Oh wait, that's where all this started! You wanted me to pay for a service you weren't rendering! I guess you want the
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