HELP!!! Notice Period letters!!

kerrygblade

Hi all

We decided when our son started school that we would put him in an independant school! Your probably thinking snobs! But we did it because the schools near us didnt have a good rep and the class sizes where really small. It wasnt a few £k per term either it was around £3k per year!

However, it isnt all it cracked up to be and we want to pull him out to save money and as the school is doing him no better than any other school would!

We put our terms notice in writing early Jan and never retracted it in writing but had conversations saying we would leave him there for the time being.

As we never retracted it in writing can we still pull him out at the end of term (next week) and not pay any further fees??

If anyone has any advice it would be greatly appreciated!

KeithP

Agreements don't always have to be written.

If you have agreed, verbally or otherwise, you really should stick with your agreement, don't you think?

kerrygblade

Totally, but they have fullfilled on promises they made and we only agreed to keep him there is things changed and improved, they have changed but not improved the issues we had earlier this year!

We have letters from school mentioning meetings that would be planned by the school and these havent happened either so i feel that they arent sticking to there side of the agreement either!

kerrygblade

Totally, but they have fullfilled on promises they made and we only agreed to keep him there is things changed and improved, they have changed but not improved the issues we had earlier this year!



have should be haven't!

rl290

You should pay for as long as you keep him in the school. Morally this is right, and legally it'll be hard to argue otherwise. I understand what you're saying: you only kept him there because you were told things would change... and they didn't. Effectively, you have given them one last chance, and they haven't delivered. But unless a condition of this last chance was to not pay if things didn't work out then I'm afraid I can see no case for you.

R

Hintza

Sounds like you haven't even spoken to the school. As you know you need to give a term's notice which from what you have said you did, so why are you on here?

You must in your own mind feel that later conversations and discussions with the school might supersede your original letter.

So go and talk to them about it, but I think you could be liable for a further term's fees and to be honest moving at the start of the academic year is probably better for the child.