I was a little confused when I received a letter from Sue Scheff's attorney David H. Pollack today. It seems Ms. Scheff takes the position that I can not criticize what I consider an unwise placement of my daughter at the Whitmore Academy by Ms. Scheff. Isn't this the similiar situation Ms. Scheff was in when she was criticizing WWASP when WWASP choose to sue Ms. Scheff, and demand that Ms. Scheff STOP speaking negatively about WWASP? The main difference I see, is that I am not in any business competition with Ms. Scheff--as she was with WWASP.
I do believe Ms. Scheff won this case, thereby showing that I have the same rights that Ms. Scheff had as a MOTHER-- and that I can speak out in what I believe is a truthful way and say: that my daughter was placed in a school at the recommendation by Ms. Scheff that was misrepresented to me and my husband on several levels. My husband and I have made our formal statement to ISAC explaining why we withdrew our daughter from Whitmore Academy, and why we are displeased with Sue Scheff and P.U.R.E.
Just as Ms. Scheff had the right to speak out on her own daughter's behalf--we have that right to speak out on our daughter's behalf. We are not interfering with Ms. Sheff's business anymore than she was interfering with WWASP's business before they chose to wrongfully bring a lawsuit against her.
Mr. Pollack's letter mistates information about us. It states that Ms. Scheff "provided us with information on several schools at your request." This is untrue. Ms. Sheff only told us about TWO schools: Whitmore Academy and Sunrise Academy.
The letter also states that "...You not only visited Whitmore and spoke to its owners before placing your daughter there" This is also untrue. We never had a prior visit to Whitmore. We only came to Whitmore the day we dropped off our daughter. We did not speak to the OWNERS prior to placing our daughter. We only spoke to Mark Sudweeks. As a matter of fact--Cherly Sudweeks would not return our MANY phone calls until NOVEMBER, and that was only after we sent an email that we were withdrawing our daughter from the school.
The letter from Sue Scheff's attorney, promising "to take appropriate legal action," appears to be an attempt to say I do not have the same rights that Ms. Scheff won in her case against WWASP.