Hi to all,
Any experience or lawyers out there please!?
Long story, but we have taken a child out of a prep school - great school until the final few years where they 'fail' to prepare children at all for the various entrance exams. Too late for DS1 who will stay but we moved DS2 with half a term's notice to avoid a similar experience in a couple of years' time.
As we removed him with half a term's notice (at the half term in the summer term), the school are threatening legal action for fees for this term!
Any experience of this and whether legal action can be pursued? Wording of the contract we signed seems very loose. For example, we are meant to give a 'full term's notice' - why can this not be from half term to half term? This would mean, at worst, we would owe half a term's fee....
But, essentially, we believe there is a 'contract' when we signed up to pay fees give notice etc. - we pay you money and you educate our children to the best of their abilities They have clearly failed in the latter hence our refusal to pay.
Any advice please?
JP
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JaneyPal · 04/09/2011 06:36
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