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Incompetence and Fake Graduation/College Acceptance Rates Ep. 12 Heritage Academy

Heritage Academy boasts a 100% graduation rate…while that is mostly true each year, it is not exactly true for every year…how they get that number is a few tricks and some smoke and mirrors.  Just like their 100% college acceptance rate…more on that in a bit as well…but first graduation rates.

Heritage Academy and the Embezzler Episode 11

It is not slander when it is true. 

Follow the Money: Heritage Academy Taxes and Financials

Money is a significant topic of discussion for most non-profits. The financial well-being of Heritage is surprisingly robust considering they are always complaining to the parents about how tight money is. Especially when academic programs and teachers inquire about funding, they are always told, “Maybe we can get a donor to cover it in the future…” and then it is never discussed again. But lots of things at Heritage are like that. There is no accountability and no consistency in reporting or informing the parents who pay the bills. They hope that anything unsavory that happens like baseball coaches throwing kids into lockers out of anger, teachers and staff having extra-marital affairs, and the like will fade away once swept under the carpet and out the door. The same with the renovation of the bathrooms in all buildings. Sometime, hopefully in the near future maybe soon wink wink nod nod. And yet year after year the plumbing is limping along, the stall have been patched to the point there is more puddy then wood or plastic. Heritage is over 50 years old. The buildings look it. They need a significant renovation and yet allegedly there is no money to spend for anything beyond the basics. Why? Where is all the money from tuition, grants, fees, sports booster funds, and contributions from donors going? Well let’s look at a few areas of financial curiosity and potential financial malfeasance.
Tax Filings (Scroll down the page and open the pdfs for each under the heading: Form 990s):
https://www.causeiq.com/organizations/hertiage-academy,640435248/
 

Heritage Academy How I did the Research for the Podcast Episodes

There has been discussion in the community that I "made up" the information in my recent expose on Heritage Academy and that I lied about xyz. Everything I use is in public record or publicly available information. I encourage you to do your research. It is this easy!
Here is an explanation of how I researched the Heritage Academy Project/Expose.
 
To see the documents go to the Youtube video: https://youtu.be/eYr4ITrANuo
 

Heritage Academy Part 8: The MAIS Football Shake Down

The MAIS has had a huge change in how the schools are grouped for district play in sports. It was spearheaded by Shane Blanton and released in October of this year and ADs and Headmasters were only given what appears to be two days to protest, respond, etc. The segmenting is allegedly now based on student enrollment to create parity. The reality is something completely different.

Heritage Academy Part 7: Where the Head of School is Not Qualified to Lead

The Heritage Academy Head of School is a football coach with a mediocre sports record over his head and drowning in the haze of his incompetent leadership.

Heritage Academy Part 6: Understanding the MAIS Connection

A pdf created by former Executive Director Shane Blanton titled Midsouth Association of Independent Schools: Understanding Independent School Parents is interesting. It clarifies why the culture there is just as convoluted, non-student-centric, and self-serving as the Heritage Academy culture.
 
https://home.msais.org/board-training/new_admin_slides_shane_2023.pdf
 
 

Heritage Academy Episode 5 - Where Some Are More Equal Than Others

Y’all, if this is accurate this is a nasty mess created by adults using the school’s money and time to have tawdry affairs. If this is half true it is an absolute embarrassment to the school and the community. If this is a quarter true, this should and must be investigated by the school board. While Principal Sneed is now gone from the school, it is still clear the administration and possibly the school board were complicit in hiding from parents that this is a massive smirch on the Heritage Academy Brand and destroys any faith in their High Moral Standards motto. IF they hid this and allowed Sneed to resign, what else are they sweeping under the carpet and not addressing? Are they ostriches with their heads in the sand or are they truly concerned about the children’s future in the hands of the people Sean Harrison has hired?

Heritage Academy Part 4 Where Some Are More Equal

Parents are paying good money to Heritage because they want their children to get a better education than they could in the city or county school. However, the latest teachers hired at Heritage under the current administration are not even qualified to teach in those same public schools or would NOT be allowed to teach in those schools because of their pasts. Why are you willing to settle on the mediocrity and incompetence that the current administration is allowing to teach your children for whom you want (and pay for) the best educational opportunities possible?

Heritage Academy Where Some Are More Equal Episode 3

There are threads on FB of people talking about me, but not one has refuted with any evidence that I have made statements about recent events and the current batch of new hires. I find that telling. They banter about words like “disgruntled former employee” and “jealous” but not one person on these bully pulpit threads has addressed the elephant in the room: the school’s administration is a mess, and the new hires are mostly unequipped and not educated in the areas in which they teach. FACTS…they are ignoring the FACTS and merely attacking the messenger.