I am sure that defrauding these people was an honest mistake.
Quote:A girls’ Catholic school in Wenham filed a $26 million bankruptcy. Faculty and family feel like they’ve been swindled.
Nearly a decade after it opened at a historic estate in Wenham, the Academy at Penguin Hall is closed, its dream of educating girls in the Catholic tradition ending in a $26 million filing in bankruptcy court.
Before the filing, the academy had collected $500,000 in tuition for the 2025-26 school year, which led to parents filing lawsuits and a complaint with the state attorney general’s office.
Faculty at the grade 9 through 12 academy went unpaid for the final six weeks of the school year. In 2023, the school owed $187,922 in unpaid federal taxes, court filings show.
Faculty and parents said they feel like they’ve been swindled with little hope for recovery or compensation.
“Twenty-six million dollars is a lot of debt for a tiny school,” said Deena Flaherty, who is out $24,000 paid toward tuition for her daughter’s senior year.
“We had to put a deposit and start paying monthly in February, and there’s no way they went into that much debt from February on, so they clearly knew they were just taking our money,” Flaherty told the Globe.
“The amount of debt incurred in this tiny business is astronomical,” Flaherty wrote in the complaint.
“They took and did not refund $500,000 from parents for 25/26 tuition and closed and did not refund,” the complaint said. “That is fraud.”
Teachers said paychecks regularly bounced until they just stopped altogether.
Along with not being paid for the last six weeks of school, faculty had their health insurance canceled and allege that they are owed more than $250,000 for money that was taken from their retirement accounts, records show.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/15/m...ankruptcy/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
