California Boarding School Culture/Honor Code/Motto

CateCAParent
Sun, 28 Jul 2019 04:09:33 +0000

For the record, not my intention to compare the Thacher thing to the sex abuse scandal at Choate. I didn’t say what the issue at Choate was, for that very reason. If anyone searched online for Thacher and sex scandal, I wouldn’t want anything to come up. But too late now…

I was just observing how Choate handled their issue. Which Thacher should have emulated - they told their community, but something on the website would’ve been a good idea, too.

Thacher had an opportunity to put something out that stated:: one of their trustees was implicated in the Singer thing, but to their knowledge the school was not involved. Moreover, the trustee is no longer involved with the school at all - such is Thacher’s commitment to Honor, Fairness, Kindness and Truth.

Boom. Done. It would turn a negative into a positive. People can, and did, find out about the Thacher trustee, and Thacher missed an opportunity to control the story. Someone wanting to talk about the story is not an attack on Thacher. Don’t blame the people seeking more information about something both topical and personal to the decision of where to apply to schools.

Expecting information from Thacher has nothing to do with being allergic to manual labor or disliking core values.