Hi Nick,
1. Audio file
As you know, I agree with you when you say there has been an interminable wait on that audio file. Just one question though - let's say you heard the audio and we turned out to be right about the mantram etc. Would you change your mind about Mrs Mavro and the School?
2. Integrity
nick wrote:Integrity is being true to your word not 20 years later but immediately, now. Which surely you, were not for 20 yrs. Then just woke and up started accusing people of wrong doings. Tutors have taught for many years speaking rubbish and now stating all the material is copied, blaming the mantrum etc.
This is a bit disjointed (you also seem to have missed out some words) - I'm not sure exactly what you want to say here.
nick wrote:It is clearer now that there was an ulterior motive. Just prior to them leaving Mrs Mavros Will and who was going to look after the school after her death was communicated. Coincidentally, all the money/power seekers seem to have exited. That is not integrity. Leaving the students without a word or indirect words. that is not integrity. Not speaking to ex students, That is not integrity.
Firstly, you seem to have fallen into the correlation/causation trap here. The fact that two events follow each other does not mean they are causally related. E.g. "
More and more young people are attending high schools and colleges today than ever before. Yet there is more juvenile delinquency and more alienation among the young. This makes it clear that these young people are being corrupted by their education." While it may seem that these two events are causally related, there is in fact no reason to think so. There are many reasons why juvenile delinquency might be on the rise
other than 'corrupting education'. The same principle applies here. Even if it was the case that some details of Mrs Mavro's will were communicated to some people, it certainly does not follow that this communication caused the exodus of over half the School.
Secondly, I know of no such communication. Mr and Mrs Mavro never revealed the details of their will to me, and I certainly didn't leave because I wasn't getting something to which I thought I was entitled. This story about the will seems to have sprung up rather conveniently as a way to slander us as selfish and greedy. The real question is, does it really make sense? Would it really make sense for all these people to leave (and guarantee themselves
no power at all), instead of just staying on and manoeuvring themselves to the top once Mrs Mavro was gone? None of these people have set up rival organisations or acquired for themselves 'followers' etc. in the same way that Mr and Mrs Mavro did. If power was what they wanted, then they've all done an extremely poor job of acquiring it for themselves. If we were as good at deceiving people and lying as you seem to suggest, there would have been little need for us to leave the School in order to do that. You might well disagree with what we think of Mrs Mavro, but it's just unreasonable to think we're trying to deceive you in order to satisfy some vaguely defined 'agenda'. Your point (or rather, Mrs Mavro's point) just doesn't make any sense once you think about it a little bit.
Thirdly, students
were talked to. A meeting was convened and the whole senior part of the School was invited. Not everyone turned up, but most did. I don't know what you mean by "not speaking to ex-students" - we have certainly spoken to 'ex-students' (after all, we
are ex-students...) If you actually meant "not speaking not current students" then you are again incorrect. Efforts have been made in that respect also, but you can imagine the kind of response we usually get. Some have been open to hearing what we have to say, and most of those have eventually left the School as well. The other thing is that we don't think people should be coerced into leaving. They should make up their own minds. All we do is present them with the facts and we don't push them either way.
nick wrote:Ask the senior tutors what there ex students are doing now. They have no idea.
How on earth do you know what the senior tutors know or don't know about their ex-students? If you're going to make claims like that you really should back them up with something other than rhetoric.
nick wrote:We are not wanting to hear from students but senior tutors who's words may be worth a few cents more.
Those are exactly the people Ella is talking about. Why don't you just contact them and find out for yourself? What do you have to lose?
MOTS