In 2016, The New York Times reported that the Oxbridge Academy Foundation was undergoing some serious changes in light of some troubling revelations coming to light. Most notably, the school was alleged to be engaging in kickbacks, grade-changing on behalf of the students, excessive spending (the school’s debate team would spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on travel, for instance, and the football coach had a salary of around $200,000), and violation of certain sports rules and regulations.
In addition, several female employees reported instances of sexual harassment against Robert Parsons, the head of school, who had been suspended from his previous job in 2009 for allegedly operating a “‘slush fund’ to pay for tailgate parties.” Bill Koch responded that he could not find any evidence of “super sexual harassment” from Parsons, but nonetheless fired him, and declined to renew a number of other staff members’ contracts.
Since 2016, however, the school has only expanded. In January 2021, Oxbridge announced they would be expanding from grades 9 through 12 to 7 through 12, per The Palm Beach Post. “The intuition has been that there’s something very special going on here and it can serve a wider range of students,” Ralph Maurer, the new head of school who replaced Parsons, said at the time. “We focus a lot on the culture of kindness here … Character education, values, responsibility, citizenship.” Barron Trump is expected to graduate from Oxbridge in 2024.
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