CHARLOTTE LATIN SCHOOL SOUNDS AWFUL: Shot: Dissenting Parents’ Defamation Claim Over School’s Allegations of Racism Can Go Forward. “The Turpins allege that Charlotte Latin and Baldecchi made false statements [to third parties] about the contents of the [Turpins’] PowerPoint presentation [that the Turpins delivered at the meeting]—specifically, that the PowerPoint contained the racist assertion that minority students and faculty at the school ‘have not earned their positions and honors’ and that those minority students and faculty were ‘not up to the merit of the school’ like the white students and faculty.”
Chaser: Fraud Claim Over “No Blowback” Assurance by Private School to Complaining Parents, Followed by Children’s Expulsions, Can Go Forward. “Here, the complaint alleges that Charlotte Latin promised the Turpins there would be no “blowback” or “retaliation” against them or their children if they met with school leadership to discuss their concerns; that this promise was false and, from the beginning, Charlotte Latin intended to deceive the Turpins and lure them to the meeting in order to create a pretext for expelling the children; that the Turpins believed Charlotte Latin’s promise and spoke openly about their concerns because they believed the school would not use those discussions as the pretextual grounds to expel the children; that the school, in that same meeting, expelled the children, as they intended from the outset, despite promising the Turpins they would not do so; and that the school’s deceit caused significant damage to the Turpins.”
