Outraged NYC dad goes on a rampage against The Browning School in NYC
Furious father expels his kids from New York’s $62,000 Browning School after spitting out more than $1 million, claiming it has “devolved into a quagmire of dysfunction, misconduct and dishonesty”
- The parent promised to donate $1 million, but the school said he was $60,000 short
- He protested against the leadership, who changed the rules to admit trans boys
- Vader sent a furious email to Browning’s board of trustees
A father who sent his sons to New York City’s Browning School for years has withdrawn in anger, accusing the school’s awakened new leadership of cheating him of an extra $60,000 in donations.
The parent sent an outraged email to the Board of Trustees resigning and furious with the leadership.
He also suggested that the school retaliated against his sons with unwarranted disciplinary action when he withdrew his charitable giving.
The Browning School has not yet commented on his claims.
In his email, the father said, “After a total of 25 years of three boys attending the school, seven years of board service, and more than $1.5 million spent on tuition and donations, we are sending our sons elsewhere and breaking up.” all tires.
The Browning School on NYC’s Upper East Side, which was founded in 1888 as an all-boys school
The father’s email to the school was shared on NYC Private School Watch – an Instagram page detailing the escalating problems in Manhattan’s most expensive and elite institutions
Browning has become a morass of dysfunction, misconduct and dishonesty.
“Those are serious words and I use them carefully – as a parent and confidant.”
He claims that in the fall of 2022, after pledging $1 million to the school, he attempted to give the remaining $651,400 after already donating $348,000 last year.
School principals told him he actually owed $710,000, according to the father, who has not been publicly named but whose email appeared on NYC Private School Watch — an Instagram page that chronicles the escalating problems in the most expensive and elite institutions. of Manhattan describes.
Headmaster John Botti. The father says that after the first incident, he refused to meet him and only communicated through lawyers
When he raised the matter with the school’s principal, John Botti, the father said Botti assured him he would respond “immediately,” but heard nothing after that.
He says he decided on the spot to withdraw his financial support out of concern about the school’s “poor bookkeeping.”
In the months that followed, he claimed the school had taken unwarranted disciplinary action against his sons, who had never been in trouble before.
When the family tried to investigate the matters, he claimed that Botti refused to meet with them and instead insisted on communicating through lawyers.
“We understand that this year we are among a number of Browning families, across multiple ranks, who have had to hire lawyers.
“This is due in part to a disastrous inability to hire, retain or mentor competent principals from at least the high and high schools,” he said.
It is the latest issue in a series of episodes for Browning.
The famous boys’ school was founded in 1888 to educate brothers Percy and John D. Rockefeller.
Now it faces criticism for changing its policy to allow children “who identify as boys” to apply.
“As a school that proudly celebrates and affirms boys at every stage of their lives, we recognize that the many ways in which gender can be lived and expressed are now vastly different from when we were founded in 1888,” read a recent letter to parents.