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Nou caz revoltător la Transylvania College. ]]></title><description><![CDATA[&#206;nc&#259; un p&#259;rinte &#238;&#537;i scrie povestea traumatizant&#259; cu Transylvania College.]]></description><link>https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/scoala-neincrederii-nou-caz-revoltator-transylvania-college</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/scoala-neincrederii-nou-caz-revoltator-transylvania-college</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sergiu Biriș]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2025 15:56:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!754-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd80c9758-7bfc-48bf-93c5-4503b94bf2eb_940x788.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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href="https://www.facebook.com/Adryshor/posts/pfbid0o3pok9bW8N71yzMmDaFx6X6umfDtUoDJirpEreZuJnHxn4UxmtKDdm5ZGvVJN1ZVl">&#238;&#537;i scrie povestea</a> traumatizant&#259; avut&#259; cu Transylvania College. </p><p>Adriana a scris pe FB despre cum Transylvania College, luni de zile, a l&#259;sat s&#259; se &#238;n&#539;eleag&#259; c&#259; &#238;i va accepta &#238;nscrierea b&#259;iatului, care are deficien&#539;e de vedere, ca mai apoi, la 10 zile <em>dup&#259;</em> &#238;nceperea anului &#537;colar, s&#259; &#238;i comunice c&#259; <em>&#8221;din motive ce &#539;in exclusiv de organizarea &#537;i resursele institu&#539;iei, nu putem oferi cadrul educa&#539;ional adecvat pentru Carol, nici &#238;n programele noastre de zi, nici &#238;n cele alternative (Hybrid)&#8221;. </em></p><p>Din iulie pana &#238;n septembrie a existat o comunicare cu &#537;coala, acte trimise, confirm&#259;ri de pa&#537;i urm&#259;tori, dup&#259; care&#8230; TC &#238;i r&#259;spunde acestei mame,<strong> la 10 zile de la &#238;nceperea anului &#537;colar, c&#259; nu &#238;i accept&#259; b&#259;iatul &#238;n &#537;coal&#259; (!!!). </strong></p><p><strong>ZECE. ZILE. DUP&#258;.</strong></p><p>Acela&#537;i mod de operare: la&#537;i p&#259;rintele &#238;n expectativ&#259;, p&#226;n&#259; &#238;n ultimul moment&#8230; iar apoi faci fix ce vrei tu, f&#259;r&#259; s&#259; &#238;&#539;i pese de consecin&#539;e.  </p><p>P&#259;rintele exasperat. Copilul traumatizat.</p><blockquote><p>Unde e &#8221;&#537;coala &#238;ncrederii&#8221;? Unde e asumarea? Unde e empatia, &#8220;<strong>mindful leaders</strong>&#8221; ai Transylvania College? </p></blockquote><h2>&#536;coala tace m&#226;lc.</h2><p>Iar Transylvania College? Ce zice? Ce a comunicat aceast&#259; institu&#539;ie de &#238;nv&#259;&#539;&#259;m&#226;nt &#238;n ultimele 3 s&#259;pt&#259;m&#226;ni de c&#226;nd am scris eu <a href="https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/transylvania-college-presiune-hartuire-abuz-institutional">povestea noastr&#259;</a>? </p><p>Nimic. Adopt&#259; un &#8221;PR de criz&#259;&#8221; pe modelul &#8221;hai s&#259; t&#259;cem, c&#259; poate trece&#8221;. Stilul &#8221;batista pe &#539;ambal&#8221;.</p><p>At&#226;ta c&#259; acest PR de criz&#259; va &#539;ine fix p&#226;n&#259; &#238;n momentul &#238;n care <strong>ace&#537;ti  bulg&#259;ri se vor transforma &#238;ntr-o avalan&#537;&#259;.</strong> Iar eu cred c&#259; e doar o chestiune de timp p&#226;n&#259; se va &#238;nt&#226;mpla asta. Tot mai mul&#539;i p&#259;rin&#539;i vor l&#259;sa frica la o parte &#537;i vor vorbi public despre abuzurile &#537;i nedrept&#259;&#539;ile la care sunt supu&#537;i din partea &#8221;leadershipului&#8221; de la Transylvania College. </p><p>Intui&#539;ia &#238;mi spune c&#259; &#537;coala va comunica totu&#537;i ceva, la un moment dat, iar eu v&#259;d dou&#259; variante:</p><p><strong>Varianta A: Victimizare.</strong> <em>E totul un atac mediatic. Cineva are ceva cu noi. Noi de fapt suntem cura&#539;i, au fost doar ne&#238;n&#539;elegeri. Sunt p&#259;rin&#539;i frustra&#539;i care nu &#238;n&#539;eleg modelul nostru de &#8221;wellbeing&#8221;. De fapt suntem &#8221;ataca&#539;i&#8221; de for&#539;e externe, care ne vor r&#259;ul.</em> </p><p>De ce cred c&#259; vor reac&#539;iona a&#537;a: pentru c&#259; toat&#259; lini&#537;tea asta nu poate dec&#226;t s&#259; &#238;nsemne c&#259; se folosesc de timp ca s&#259; &#238;&#537;i mai cure&#539;e din &#8221;schele&#539;ii din dulapuri&#8221;, &#238;nainte s&#259; comunice ceva public. </p><p>Vor &#238;ncerca sa fac&#259; s&#259; par&#259; c&#259; totul a fost de fapt o ne&#238;n&#539;elegere &#537;i c&#259; &#238;n realitate nu exist&#259; probleme. </p><p>&#206;ns&#259; faptul c&#259; &#238;&#537;i acoper&#259; acum urmele &#537;i se victimizeaz&#259;, nu rezolv&#259; fapte u&#537;or de dovedit din trecut.</p><p><strong>Varianta B: &#8221;School of The Year&#8221;.</strong> Baz&#226;ndu-se pe influen&#539;&#259; &#537;i rela&#539;ii, m&#259; a&#537;tept ca TC, sau fondatoarea RB, s&#259; primeasc&#259; &#238;n cur&#226;nd un premiu onorific, ceva. &#536;coala anului. Cel mai tare fondator de &#537;coal&#259;. Cel mai bun &#8221;ceva&#8221; din Cluj/Rom&#226;nia. O poz&#259; cu vreo persoan&#259; influent&#259;, ceva. </p><p>Aceast&#259; ac&#539;iune va avea scopul de a le cur&#259;&#539;a imaginea p&#259;tat&#259;. Iar <strong>acel cineva, care &#238;i va ajuta &#238;n acest demers, &#238;&#537;i va p&#259;ta propria imagine</strong>.</p><h2>&#536;i t&#259;cerea e un r&#259;spuns.</h2><p>De ce cred c&#259; vor veni cu una sau ambele din cele dou&#259; variante? </p><p>Pentru c&#259; atunci c&#226;nd nu comunici nimic + ar&#259;&#539;i o evident&#259; lips&#259; de empatie, &#238;nseamn&#259; c&#259; &#238;n realitate planul t&#259;u este s&#259; <strong>faci orice po&#539;i ca s&#259; bagi rahatul sub covor &#537;i s&#259; la&#537;i impresia c&#259; de fapt e totul ok.</strong> </p><p>Orice, numai s&#259; nu &#238;&#539;i recuno&#537;ti vina, sl&#259;biciunile, gre&#537;elile, incompeten&#539;a. </p><blockquote><p><strong>A&#537;tepta&#539;i &#537;i ve&#539;i vedea.</strong> <strong>Cu o astfel de atitudine, &#238;ncet dar sigur, Transylvania College va continua s&#259; fie &#536;COALA NE&#206;NCREDERII.</strong> </p></blockquote><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/scoala-neincrederii-nou-caz-revoltator-transylvania-college?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/scoala-neincrederii-nou-caz-revoltator-transylvania-college?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ultimul meu mesaj public despre situația Transylvania College (deocamdată)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ast&#259;zi, semnalul meu a ajuns unde trebuie: autorit&#259;&#539;i, institu&#539;ii, organisme de acreditare. S-au sesizat. De aici &#238;nainte e treaba lor.]]></description><link>https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/ultimul-meu-mesaj-public-despre-situatia-transylvania-college</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/ultimul-meu-mesaj-public-despre-situatia-transylvania-college</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sergiu Biriș]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2025 07:39:16 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4f40b391-587f-42bb-878c-60b21c80cae0_940x788.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pentru context, <a href="https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/transylvania-college-presiune-hartuire-abuz-institutional">cite&#537;te aici povestea</a> sau <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vi7tKcAEghc">urm&#259;re&#537;te episodul de podcast</a>.</p><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/ultimul-meu-mesaj-public-despre-situatia-transylvania-college?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/ultimul-meu-mesaj-public-despre-situatia-transylvania-college?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p>N-am crezut c&#259; voi ajunge s&#259; scriu &#238;nc&#259; un text despre Transylvania College. Dar aici sunt. &#536;i, cel pu&#539;in pentru o vreme, acesta va fi <strong>ultimul meu mesaj public pe acest subiect.</strong></p><p>Decizia de a ie&#537;i public &#537;i de a ne c&#259;uta dreptatea am luat-o <strong>pentru b&#259;iatul nostru</strong>. Dac&#259; tot am fost for&#539;a&#539;i s&#259; &#238;i schimb&#259;m &#537;coala, <strong>am vrut</strong> ca lucrurile s&#259; fie spuse pe fa&#539;&#259;, asumat. &#536;i-a dorit dreptate, iar noi i-am fost al&#259;turi.</p><p>Nu tr&#259;iesc din investiga&#539;ii, nu conduc un ONG. Sunt <strong>un tat&#259;</strong> care a decis s&#259; spun&#259; lucrurilor pe nume c&#226;nd s-a sim&#539;it ne&#238;ndrept&#259;&#539;it, c&#226;nd regulile au fost s&#259;rite, iar familia lui a fost &#238;mpins&#259; &#238;ntr-un col&#539;. </p><p>Am scris ca s&#259; trag <strong>un semnal de alarm&#259;</strong> asupra acestor nedrept&#259;&#539;i, care nu au voie s&#259; se &#238;nt&#226;mple &#238;ntr-o institu&#539;ie de &#238;nv&#259;&#539;&#259;m&#226;nt din Rom&#226;nia.</p><blockquote><p><strong>Personal voi continua &#238;n instan&#539;&#259;. Totodat&#259;, semnalul meu a ajuns unde trebuie: media, autorit&#259;&#539;i, institu&#539;ii, organisme de acreditare. S-au sesizat. De aici &#238;nainte e treaba lor.</strong></p></blockquote><p>Dac&#259; nu se schimb&#259; nimic, mesajul public transmis va fi unul de validare: c&#259; &#8221;se poate orice&#8221; &#238;n Rom&#226;nia &#537;i c&#259; regulile sunt op&#539;ionale. </p><p>Eu nu cred &#238;n acea Rom&#226;nie. <strong>Ceva trebuie s&#259; se schimbe.</strong></p><div><hr></div><h2>Alegerea momentului: de ce am decis s&#259; scriu acum</h2><p>Chiar dac&#259; majoritatea copiilor erau &#238;nc&#259; &#238;n vacan&#539;&#259;, &#238;n sistemul interna&#539;ional, <strong>&#537;coala &#238;ncepuse</strong> deja. Unele &#537;coli &#238;ncep din 25 august sau 1-2 septembrie.</p><p>Noi am fost nevoi&#539;i, dup&#259; 3 luni &#537;i jum&#259;tate de stres &#537;i neclaritate, s&#259; <strong>reziliem contractul &#238;n prima zi de &#537;coal&#259;</strong>, ca s&#259; nu rupem &#537;i mai tare parcursul copiilor. Timpul curgea &#238;mpotriva noastr&#259;, r&#259;spunsurile de la TC nu veneau, iar acas&#259; aveam acel <strong>zgomot de fond al anxiet&#259;&#539;ii</strong> pe care orice p&#259;rinte &#238;l recunoa&#537;te. </p><div><hr></div><h2>Nu e un r&#259;zboi cu &#537;coala</h2><p>Vreau s&#259; fie foarte clar: <strong>nu</strong> am o problem&#259; cu Transylvania College ca institu&#539;ie educa&#539;ional&#259;. Copiii mei au fost acolo <strong>peste 10 ani</strong>. Am v&#259;zut <strong>profesori extraordinari</strong>, elevi care cresc frumos, p&#259;rin&#539;i care pun suflet. Mult timp am fost <strong>mul&#539;umi&#539;i</strong> &#537;i noi de actul educa&#539;ional. Se vede &#238;n progresul copiilor. </p><p>Acest demers <strong>nu pune la &#238;ndoial&#259; calitatea actului educa&#539;ional</strong> &#537;i <strong>nu &#238;&#537;i propune s&#259; &#238;l discrediteze.</strong></p><blockquote><p><strong>Problema mea</strong> este cu <strong>leadership-ul</strong> &#537;i cu felul &#238;n care s-au comportat cu noi &#537;i cu al&#539;i p&#259;rin&#539;i, cu modul &#238;n care &#537;i-au ignorat <strong>propriile reguli &#537;i proceduri</strong> ca s&#259; ob&#539;in&#259; ce vor, f&#259;c&#226;nd abuzuri, presiuni &#537;i condi&#539;ion&#259;ri care <strong>nu au ce c&#259;uta</strong> &#238;ntr-o &#537;coal&#259;.</p></blockquote><p>&#536;i nici acum nu am r&#259;spunsul la <strong>DE CE am trecut prin toate astea? Care a fost miza &#537;colii?</strong> N-am nici cea mai mic&#259; idee. </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/ultimul-meu-mesaj-public-despre-situatia-transylvania-college?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/ultimul-meu-mesaj-public-despre-situatia-transylvania-college?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h2>C&#259;tre profesori: nu sunte&#539;i singuri</h2><p>Am primit multe mesaje de la profesorii din TC, fo&#537;ti sau existen&#539;i.</p><p>O parte din ei au postat anonim &#238;n comentarii la articolul meu despre abuzurile prin care au trecut, cum unii dintre ei au fost da&#539;i afar&#259; de pe o zi pe alta f&#259;r&#259; preaviz, plus multe altele. Din p&#259;cate, cele mai multe mesaje nu pot fi publicate de teama <strong>identific&#259;rii</strong> &#537;i a <strong>repercusiunilor</strong>. </p><blockquote><p>Cuv&#226;ntul care revine mereu: <strong>FRICA</strong>.</p></blockquote><p>Dragi profesori, vreau s&#259; v&#259; reamintesc faptul c&#259; Rom&#226;nia este o &#539;ar&#259; din Uniunea European&#259; &#537;i c&#259; exist&#259; <strong>Legea 361/2022</strong> (avertizorii de integritate) sau &#238;n englez&#259;: &#8221;whistleblower law&#8221;.  </p><p>Aceea&#537;i lege este &#238;n vigoare &#238;n UK, &#238;nc&#259; din 1998 - The Public Interest Disclosure Act (PIDA) .</p><p>Dac&#259; observa&#539;i nereguli <strong>&#238;n exercitarea muncii</strong>, ilegalit&#259;&#539;i sau abuzuri, ave&#539;i <strong>dreptul</strong> s&#259; raporta&#539;i <strong>confiden&#539;ial</strong>, intern sau <strong>direct la autorit&#259;&#539;i sub protec&#539;ia anonimatului</strong>.</p><p>Am pus mai jos un link c&#259;tre un <strong>ghid practic</strong> (pa&#537;i, modele, canale), pentru profesorii care doresc s&#259; <strong>trimit&#259; sesiz&#259;ri, f&#259;r&#259; fric&#259;</strong>. Folosi&#539;i-l.</p><p>Nu ar trebui s&#259; v&#259; fie fric&#259; s&#259; spune&#539;i <strong>&#8221;aici nu e OK&#8221;</strong>.</p><div><hr></div><p><strong><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/10P6T114nb2wy4XsrQiSaTDU43S140zRL/view?usp=drive_link">Ghid de raportare (whistleblowing) a neregulilor &#238;n &#537;coli private</a> (PDF)</strong></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/ultimul-meu-mesaj-public-despre-situatia-transylvania-college?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/ultimul-meu-mesaj-public-despre-situatia-transylvania-college?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><div><hr></div><p>Din p&#259;cate, p&#259;rin&#539;ii nu beneficiaz&#259; de protec&#539;ia anonimatului sub Legea 361/2022, dar pot sesiza autorit&#259;&#539;ile pe canalele obi&#537;nuite, iar &#238;n acest caz este mai degrab&#259; vorba de institu&#539;iile de acreditare interna&#539;ionale. </p><p>Totu&#537;i, av&#226;nd &#238;n vedere evenimentele prin care am trecut, consider c&#259; <strong>o actualizare a legisla&#539;iei prin care &#537;i p&#259;rin&#539;ii s&#259; poat&#259; face sesiz&#259;ri sub protec&#539;ia anonimatului, ar fi binevenit&#259;</strong>. </p><p>Mi-ar face pl&#259;cere s&#259; sprijin orice demers politic care &#238;&#537;i propune s&#259; transforme o astfel de legisla&#539;ie &#238;n realitate.</p><div><hr></div><h2>C&#259;tre p&#259;rin&#539;i: pune&#539;i &#238;ntreb&#259;rile simple</h2><p>Cunosc tenta&#539;ia de a zice &#8221;cine &#537;tie, poate ne las&#259; &#238;n pace&#8221; &#537;i teama de &#8221;s&#259; nu p&#259;&#539;easc&#259; copilul ceva&#8221;. </p><p>Dar avem <strong>dreptul</strong> s&#259; &#238;ntreb&#259;m:</p><ul><li><p>Cine &#537;i de ce &#539;ine <strong>sesiuni cu copiii no&#537;tri</strong>, care nu sunt prezente &#238;n programa &#537;colar&#259;? Acea persoan&#259; are <strong>mandat/rol/acreditare</strong> sau o face doar &#8221;pentru c&#259; poate&#8221;?</p></li><li><p>De ce ni se cere <strong>terapie de familie timp de 2 ani (!!!)</strong> ca <strong>precondi&#539;ie</strong> pentru &#537;colarizare? &#206;n ce <strong>procedur&#259;</strong> se &#238;ncadreaz&#259;? Cine ne cere a&#537;a ceva? Cu ce drept? Ce acredit&#259;ri/licen&#539;e are persoana respectiv&#259;?</p></li><li><p><strong>Cine &#537;i de ce ne &#8221;diagnosticheaz&#259;&#8221; copiii</strong> &#8230; cu Sindrom Asperger, ADHD sau altele? Pe ce baze? Dup&#259; ce proceduri prealabile? Ce licen&#539;e au acele persoane? Se pot verifica &#238;n <a href="https://www.copsi.ro/index.php/registre">Registrul Unic al Psihologilor (R.U.P.)</a> sau pe <a href="https://www.verificapsiholog.ro">VerificaPsiholog.ro</a>.</p></li><li><p>Cum sunt urm&#259;rite <strong>etapele</strong> din Behaviour Policy? Sau orice alt&#259; procedur&#259;. De ce s-a ajuns direct la sanc&#539;iune, f&#259;r&#259; <strong>m&#259;suri progresive</strong>? De ce &#238;&#537;i &#238;ncalc&#259; &#537;coala propriile reguli?</p></li></ul><p>Dac&#259; accept&#259;m orice de-a gata, sau b&#259;g&#259;m totul <strong>sub covor</strong>, rezultatele se vor vedea repede: <strong>profesorii buni vor pleca</strong>, iar nivelul educa&#539;ional va sc&#259;dea milimetru cu milimetru. </p><blockquote><p><strong>Orice procedur&#259; nerespectat&#259; de c&#259;tre &#537;coal&#259; impacteaz&#259; educa&#539;ia copiilor no&#537;tri.</strong> </p></blockquote><p>Cei mai mul&#539;i dintre voi ave&#539;i suficiente resurse, acces la avoca&#539;i, cam orice ave&#539;i nevoie. Speak up!</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/ultimul-meu-mesaj-public-despre-situatia-transylvania-college?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/ultimul-meu-mesaj-public-despre-situatia-transylvania-college?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h2>C&#259;tre cine se pot adresa p&#259;rin&#539;ii care au nemul&#539;umiri</h2><p>Transylvania College este acreditat&#259;, <a href="https://transylvania-college.ro/about-us/accreditations/">conform site-ului propriu</a>, de c&#259;tre Pearson Edexcel, Cambridge Assessment International Education, <strong>British School Overseas (BSO)</strong>, Council of British International Schools (COBIS), ARACIP &#537;i Ministerul Educa&#539;iei &#537;i Cercet&#259;rii. </p><p><strong><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IfMPpNvscO5ztfuFcT-pGuvxLCE92-uX/view?usp=drive_link">Am creat aici un ghid pentru p&#259;rin&#539;ii care doresc s&#259; depun&#259; sesiz&#259;ri (PDF).</a></strong></p><blockquote><p>Cel mai important contact, dup&#259; p&#259;rerea mea, este <strong><a href="https://www.pentainternational.co.uk/">Penta International</a></strong>, care efectueaz&#259; inspec&#539;iile pentru BSO. <a href="https://www.pentainternational.co.uk/bso-reports">Ultima inspec&#539;ie</a> pentru Transylvania College fiind efectuat&#259; &#238;n noiembrie 2024, deci cel mai probabil urm&#259;toarea va fi &#238;n noiembrie anul acesta.</p></blockquote><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/ultimul-meu-mesaj-public-despre-situatia-transylvania-college?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/ultimul-meu-mesaj-public-despre-situatia-transylvania-college?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h2>Ce am cerut, pe scurt (lucruri normale)</h2><p>Pentru a restabili &#238;ncrederea comunit&#259;&#539;ii &#238;n Transylvania College, consider c&#259; sunt necesare imediat:</p><ol><li><p><strong>&#206;ncetarea oric&#259;ror sesiuni de &#8222;coaching&#8221;</strong> cu elevii de c&#259;tre persoane neacreditate; consilierea s&#259; fie f&#259;cut&#259; doar de speciali&#537;ti acredita&#539;i, &#238;n cadru profesional, cu respectarea confiden&#539;ialit&#259;&#539;ii.</p></li><li><p>Renun&#539;area la <strong>acte adi&#539;ionale abuzive &#537;i discriminatorii,</strong> inclusiv denun&#539;area imediat&#259; a celor existente, f&#259;r&#259; repercusiuni pentru p&#259;rin&#539;i &#537;i copii.</p></li><li><p><strong>Schimbare de leadership:</strong> demisia doamnei Ruxandra Baciu din func&#539;ia de director executiv &#537;i numirea unui director interimar cu experien&#539;&#259; dovedit&#259; &#238;n management educa&#539;ional. </p></li><li><p><strong>Guvernan&#539;&#259; real&#259;</strong>: constituirea unui board independent (majoritar membri externi, f&#259;r&#259; raport de subordonare fa&#539;&#259; de director), cu puteri explicite de numire/&#238;nlocuire a directorului executiv, audit anual de conformitate (disciplin&#259;, safeguarding, date) &#537;i raport de transparen&#539;&#259; la final de an.</p></li></ol><p>Nu e vendet&#259;. E despre <strong>standarde</strong> <strong>&#537;i respect</strong>. Despre cum arat&#259; o &#537;coal&#259; care se vrea model de educa&#539;ie &#238;n 2025.</p><div><hr></div><h2>Ce refuz s&#259; cred c&#259; va continua</h2><p>Refuz s&#259; cred c&#259;, dup&#259; tot ce a ie&#537;it la lumin&#259;, vor continua <strong>&#8222;coaching-uri&#8221; neacreditate</strong> cu elevii.</p><p>Refuz s&#259; cred c&#259; <strong>defini&#539;ia &#8221;extins&#259;&#8221;</strong> a conceptului de &#8221;bullying&#8221; va continua s&#259; fie folosit&#259; ca instrument de presiune &#537;i sanc&#539;iune asupra familiilor.</p><p>Refuz s&#259; cred c&#259; se vor mai impune <strong>acte adi&#539;ionale discriminatorii &#537;i abuzive</strong> ca o condi&#539;ie a accesului la educa&#539;ie pentru elevii din &#537;coal&#259;.</p><blockquote><p>Dac&#259; <strong>nu</strong> se va schimba nimic, atunci &#238;nseamn&#259; c&#259; <strong>institu&#539;iile</strong> nu &#537;i-au f&#259;cut treaba.</p></blockquote><div><hr></div><h2>Un mesaj personal</h2><p>C&#259;tre <strong>Ruxandra Baciu</strong> &#537;i <strong>familia Baciu</strong>:</p><p>Am fost prieteni. Am promovat &#537;coala, am ajutat c&#226;nd a fost nevoie. Faptul c&#259; am fost &#238;mpin&#537;i &#238;n acest mod s&#259; plec&#259;m &#238;mi spune c&#259; vi s-a dereglat ceva la <strong>busola moral&#259;</strong>.</p><p>Nu vreau r&#259;ul nim&#259;nui, Ruxandra, dar sunt decizii pe care le iei &#537;i care nu sunt bune. &#206;ndep&#259;rtezi, &#238;ntr-un mod umilitor, chiar ambasadorii &#537;colii. </p><p>Accept&#259; c&#259; ai gre&#537;it. </p><blockquote><p><strong>&#206;ntreab&#259;-te CINE te-a sf&#259;tuit gre&#537;it, &#238;nc&#226;t ai ajuns &#238;n situa&#539;ia asta.</strong></p></blockquote><p>&#206;nl&#259;tur&#259; acei oameni din jurul t&#259;u. Majoritatea au interese proprii, nu binele t&#259;u sau al &#537;colii. &#206;ndreapt&#259;-te din nou c&#259;tre vechii t&#259;i prieteni &#537;i familie. Ei te vor sf&#259;tui bine &#238;ntotdeauna, de&#537;i &#537;tiu c&#259; poate nu crezi asta. </p><p>Mul&#539;i mi-au scris c&#259; poate <strong>doamna <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/sbaciu/">Simona Baciu</a>, </strong>mama Ruxandrei, ar trebui s&#259; revin&#259; &#238;ntr-un rol, pentru c&#259; pe vremea d&#226;nsei, chiar dac&#259; nu era perfect nici atunci, exista respect pentru p&#259;rin&#539;i &#537;i profesori, iar lucrurile erau totu&#537;i mai corecte, mai echilibrate. C&#259; re&#238;ntoarcerea d&#226;nsei ar aduce echilibru &#537;i ar restabili reputa&#539;ia de odinioar&#259; a &#537;colii. Nu &#537;tiu dac&#259; aceea e solu&#539;ia. </p><blockquote><p>&#536;tiu doar c&#259;, at&#226;ta timp c&#226;t numele <strong>Baciu</strong> r&#259;m&#226;ne sinonim cu Transylvania College, <strong>obliga&#539;ia &#537;i r&#259;spunderea sunt ale lor.</strong></p></blockquote><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/ultimul-meu-mesaj-public-despre-situatia-transylvania-college?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/ultimul-meu-mesaj-public-despre-situatia-transylvania-college?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h2>Punct &#537;i de la cap&#259;t</h2><p>Asta am avut de spus. Public. Asumat.</p><p>Institu&#539;iile, profesorii &#537;i p&#259;rin&#539;ii au acum suficiente elemente ca s&#259; <strong>ac&#539;ioneze</strong>.</p><p>Comunicarea mea public&#259; pe acest subiect se opre&#537;te aici &#537;i <strong>merg mai departe, </strong>&#238;mpreun&#259; cu familia mea.</p><p><strong>Mul&#539;umesc tuturor pentru mesaje &#537;i sus&#539;inere.</strong></p><p>Sergiu Biri&#537;</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/ultimul-meu-mesaj-public-despre-situatia-transylvania-college?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/ultimul-meu-mesaj-public-despre-situatia-transylvania-college?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[NU SUNT SINGUR. Alți părinți din Transylvania College își spun povestea]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pove&#537;ti reale ale p&#259;rin&#539;ilor care au trecut prin experien&#539;e similare. Aceste m&#259;rturii contureaz&#259; un tipar: proceduri s&#259;rite, condi&#539;ion&#259;ri abuzive, presiune. Le fac publice responsabil, pentru ca institu&#539;iile s&#259; &#238;&#537;i poat&#259; face treaba, iar Transylvania College s&#259;-&#537;i corecteze practicile.]]></description><link>https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/nu-sunt-singur-alti-parinti-din-transylvania-college-spun-povestea</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/nu-sunt-singur-alti-parinti-din-transylvania-college-spun-povestea</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sergiu Biriș]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 11:54:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ITwZ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9eb17532-e0e5-483e-9349-86df6a59be29_940x788.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pentru context, <a href="https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/transylvania-college-presiune-hartuire-abuz-institutional">cite&#537;te aici povestea publicat&#259;</a>, sau <a 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primit <strong>zeci de mesaje</strong> de la p&#259;rin&#539;i &#537;i profesori. Aici public, pe r&#226;nd, <strong>pove&#537;tile lor</strong>, cu datele sensibile <strong>anonimizate, </strong>dup&#259; caz. Unele pove&#537;ti le-am selectat din comentariile la articolul ini&#539;ial sau din comentariile de pe social media. Altele, le-am primit ca mesaj direct &#537;i rugat, &#238;n anumite cazuri, s&#259; anonimizez datele sensibile pentru a nu exista repercusiuni din partea &#537;colii. </p><p>Am selectat doar pove&#537;tile unde am considerat c&#259; exist&#259; <strong>detalii verificabile</strong>. <br><br>Aceste m&#259;rturii contureaz&#259; un <strong>tipar</strong>: proceduri s&#259;rite, condi&#539;ion&#259;ri abuzive, presiune. Le fac publice <strong>responsabil</strong>, pentru ca institu&#539;iile s&#259; &#238;&#537;i poat&#259; face treaba, iar Transylvania College s&#259;-&#537;i corecteze <strong>practicile</strong>. </p><p>Exist&#259; <strong>multe alte pove&#537;ti</strong> pe care, din p&#259;cate, nu le pot publica: p&#259;rin&#539;ii &#537;i profesorii se tem c&#259; apar detalii identificabile &#537;i de posibile repercusiuni. La solicitarea institu&#539;iilor competente pot facilita, confiden&#539;ial, o discu&#539;ie cu aceste persoane.<br><br><strong>Drept la replic&#259;:</strong> public integral orice r&#259;spuns <strong>scris</strong> &#537;i <strong>sus&#539;inut de dovezi</strong>.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/nu-sunt-singur-alti-parinti-din-transylvania-college-spun-povestea?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/nu-sunt-singur-alti-parinti-din-transylvania-college-spun-povestea?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h4>1. Alexandru Clima</h4><p>&#8220;Sir,</p><p>My name is Clima Alexandru I just finished reading your message about Sebastian, and I want to express my full support&#8212;for both him and your family.</p><p>Having taught Sebastian during my time at Transylvania College, I remember him clearly: thoughtful, curious, respectful, and full of potential. To hear that he was suspended&#8212;over a policy shaped and enforced by a single individual without transparency, process, or professional oversight&#8212;is nothing short of disturbing.</p><p>The decision to remove him from the school must have been incredibly difficult, but also incredibly brave. I deeply respect your choice to protect your son&#8217;s integrity and mental wellbeing over staying silent or complicit in a system that no longer serves its students. You did what every parent hopes they&#8217;d have the courage to do when it truly matters.</p><p>What&#8217;s even more troubling is the growing evidence of how the school is being managed&#8212;from unchecked authority to unaccredited &#8220;trainings&#8221; being presented as educational standards. This is not leadership. It is a distortion of what education should be, and it undermines both student growth and teacher professionalism.</p><p>Please know that you are not alone in what you&#8217;re feeling. Many of us&#8212;former staff, parents, even students&#8212;have witnessed and felt the same concerns. Your willingness to speak up publicly matters more than you know. It gives others agency to do the same, and it challenges a deeply flawed culture that has gone unchecked for far too long.</p><p>Sebastian will no doubt go on to thrive in an environment where his voice is heard, his mind is challenged, and his humanity is respected. I have no doubt about that.</p><p>Thank you for standing up&#8212;for your son.&#8221;</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/nu-sunt-singur-alti-parinti-din-transylvania-college-spun-povestea?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/nu-sunt-singur-alti-parinti-din-transylvania-college-spun-povestea?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h4>2. Anonim</h4><p>&#8220;Sergiu,</p><p>&#206;&#539;i mul&#539;umesc pentru c&#259; ne-ai dat voce. Eu sunt printre p&#259;rin&#539;ii care nu am avut &#238;nc&#259; puterea s&#259; fac ceea ce ai f&#259;cut tu. Tot ce ai descris este real &#8211; &#537;i, din p&#259;cate, chiar mai grav.</p><p>Ai omis un detaliu esen&#539;ial: copilul t&#259;u a fost suspendat vineri pe baza unei politici publicate miercuri, cu doar dou&#259; zile &#238;nainte. &#536;i faptele pe care a fost manipulat s&#259; le recunoasc&#259; erau din istoricul lui la &#537;coal&#259;, f&#259;r&#259; nicio leg&#259;tur&#259; cu bullying-ul. Ce bine c&#259; Sebastian nu a cedat presiunii din acea &#238;nt&#226;lnire! Aici se vede munca voastr&#259; de p&#259;rin&#539;i &#537;i sprijinul profesorilor care, p&#226;n&#259; nu demult, &#8222;aveau o voce&#8221; &#8211; fostul motto al TC.</p><p>Sebastian este un copil grozav. A&#539;i f&#259;cut o treab&#259; minunat&#259; ca p&#259;rin&#539;i &#537;i &#238;mi pare sincer r&#259;u c&#259; situa&#539;ia de la TC a aruncat o umbr&#259; asupra valorii voastre ca familie. V&#259; regret&#259;m plecarea &#8211; sunte&#539;i, voi &#537;i copiii vo&#537;tri, o mare pierdere pentru comunitatea TC.</p><p>&#536;tiu personal cel pu&#539;in patru profesori care se afl&#259; exact &#238;n situa&#539;ia pe care ai descris-o: bloca&#539;i, pentru c&#259; nu-&#537;i pot muta copiii (au gratuitate la TC &#537;i nu &#238;&#537;i permit taxele Royal), obliga&#539;i s&#259; tac&#259; &#537;i s&#259; suporte abuzurile. E tragic &#8211; pentru profesori, care le spun copiilor &#8222;te &#238;n&#539;eleg, dar nu te pot ajuta&#8221;, &#537;i pentru p&#259;rin&#539;i, care ajung s&#259; pl&#259;teasc&#259; pentru a fi abuza&#539;i &#537;i &#539;inu&#539;i &#238;n &#537;ah de suferin&#539;a personal&#259; a unei singure persoane.</p><p>&#206;&#539;i mul&#539;umesc pentru articol, pentru curaj &#537;i pentru adev&#259;r. Sper ca aceste sesiz&#259;ri s&#259; readuc&#259; &#537;coala acolo unde ar trebui s&#259; fie &#8211; un loc pentru copii, nu un loc al fricii.&#8221;</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/nu-sunt-singur-alti-parinti-din-transylvania-college-spun-povestea?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/nu-sunt-singur-alti-parinti-din-transylvania-college-spun-povestea?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h4>3. Norman Frankel</h4><p>&#8220;Hi Sergiu. Saw your posts on TC &amp; it reminded me of action I was going to take. 100% to the letter!...I have moved our son to the UK for school this year but your frustration seems very similar to ours! I am so sorry!!! </p><p>When we enrolled our son a few years ago, it was under Simona (mother) guidance, but since she stepped aside we have noticed an ever increasing change each year. Horrible to witness as its for worse not better! &#128555;</p><p>For our situation I was going to get a lawyer involved but it was a critical iGCSE year so I had to bury my frustrations so he wasn't removed from school in the exam year. It felt as though the parents were being implicated into things that could easily have been resolved at school. There was no prior warning just bang a decision made that contradicted the very principles the school was trying to teach its students. Very odd.</p><p>The best teachers are leaving. That tells another message! The international schools in Bucharest I spoke to were aware of the TC demise! </p><p>This year's iGCSE results for TC, I would be fascinated to know. Our sons' results were a disaster &#128554; &amp; several of his A student colleagues appear to have also got poor results which is very odd as the Mock exams had predicted great grades.</p><p>There are many great things about TC &amp; especially the teachers but the leadership appears to be going the wrong direction.&#8221;</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/nu-sunt-singur-alti-parinti-din-transylvania-college-spun-povestea?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/nu-sunt-singur-alti-parinti-din-transylvania-college-spun-povestea?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h4>4. Anonim</h4><p>&#8222;Imi pare tare rau sa vad ca multi copii si familiile lor sufera de pe urma politicii abuzive si jignitoare a TC. Am trecut printr-o situatie similara in urma cu 3 ani. Observ ca si scrisoarea de suspendare e similar&#259; cu ce am primit si noi, cu aceeasi indicatie de psihoterapie 2 ani intreaga familie. Conflictul a generat un calvar greu de dus in clasa a [<em>editat</em>]-a. Am acordat prea multa incredere TC si calitatii actului educational.</p><p>Succes in noul inceput si in demersul justitiar!&#8221;</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/nu-sunt-singur-alti-parinti-din-transylvania-college-spun-povestea?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/nu-sunt-singur-alti-parinti-din-transylvania-college-spun-povestea?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h4>5.  Anonim</h4><p>&#8220;Buna,</p><p>Si eu sunt unul dintre parintii cu copii la TC si afectati de cele descrise in acest post. Intr-adevar totul este real si mult mai grav - dincolo de absurditatea acestor coachinguri este deasemenea o directie clara si intentionata de degradare a procesului de invatamant - se elimina materii in mijlocul anului pentru ca Ruxandra decide ca copiii nu au nevoie de ele sau se inlocuiesc cu sport pentru ca tot ea decide ca au nevoie de si mai multa miscare, sau se schimba programa pentru ca decide ca alta e mai buna.</p><p>Unul dintre motivele principale pentru care am decis sa ramanem la TC pana acum, chiar si dupa ce am vazut cat de mult a decazut procesul academic, a fost psychological safety (imi pare rau, nu gasesc o traducere buna in romana). Copiii mei erau fericiti, echilibrati si cu abilitati sociale bune.</p><p>Din pacate, de cand au inceput aceste "coachinguri" si "workshopuri" asignate copiiilor copilul meu a trecut in extrema cealalta. Chiar daca a reusit sa nu intre in vizorul Ruxandrei (a avut doar cateva workshopuri asignate in ultimul an) aceasta s-a datorat unui efort constient. Noi ca si parinti, impreuna cu el, am ajuns sa discutam cum poate sta departe de ea si cum o poate evita astfel incat sa putem naviga anul scolar. Pentru mine acesta este un abuz psihologic si o presiune psihologica imensa - atat pentru noi ca si parinti, dar mai ales pentru copil. Partea si mai dramatica este ca vede ce se intampla in jurul lui, cu colegii lui si vede nedreptatea si nu poate intelege de ce e ok. In anul care a trecut am observat o discriminare clara a baietilor, doar ei erau pedepsiti si etichetati, lucru pe care evident l-au observat si copiii.</p><p>Inteleg pefect lupta interna a parintilor, pentru ca de partea cealalta ai profesorii care fac tot ce pot in pofida limitelor absurde impuse de conducere si sunt foarte indragiti de copii, ai colegii de care copiii se ataseaza foarte tare si e foarte greu sa iei o decizie care sa schimbe toate astea. Si recunosc, am incetat sa mai intrebam si sa ridicam problemele catre scoala, din acelasi motiv, teama de represalii (sunt reale din pacate) si, inevitabil, efectul lor asupra copiiilor.&#8221;</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/nu-sunt-singur-alti-parinti-din-transylvania-college-spun-povestea?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/nu-sunt-singur-alti-parinti-din-transylvania-college-spun-povestea?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h4>6. Rada Morar</h4><p>&#8220;Imi pare foarte rau pentru cele intamplate cu voi, imi pare rau pentru Sebi care a fost terorizat pe nedrept dar, <a href="https://ziardecluj.ro/transylvania-college-a-dat-afara-un-elev-pe-motiv-ca-mama-lui-lucra-pentru-concurenta">am trimis articolul scris de mine</a> ca  dovada ca practicile acestea sunt de ani buni dar, din pacate, foarte putina lume are curajul sa recunoasca ce se intampla  in realitate in scoala, in primul rand de frica repercursiunilor si a razbunarii de care este capabila RB.  Din pacate, intr-adevar RB in prezent, ca si parintii  ei in trecut, sunt &#8220;stat in stat&#8221; si actioneaza dupa bunul plac, avand ca suport autoritatile &#8220;cumparate&#8221; cu locuri gratuite in scoala, cu excursii gratuite in strainatate etc.  Regretabil este ca in urma tuturor semnalelor, tuturor dovezilor de abuzuri in mod repetat fata de copii, parinti si profesori, in egala masura, a tuturor excrocheriilor cu dovezi clare, niciodata nu se intampla nimic.  Maxim o furtuna intr-un pahar cu apa urmata de linistea provizorie pana la urmatorul eveniment. Trist. Foarte trist. Mai ales pentru ca vorbim despre o unitate de invatamant care sigur ar trebui sa promoveze cu totul si cu totul alte valori.&#8221;</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/nu-sunt-singur-alti-parinti-din-transylvania-college-spun-povestea?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/nu-sunt-singur-alti-parinti-din-transylvania-college-spun-povestea?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h4>7. Anonim</h4><p>&#8221;Salut, Sergiu!</p><p>Iti multumesc ca ai scris articolul!</p><p>Mi s-a facut pielea de gaina cand l-am citit pentru ca aveam impresia ca citesc despre mine, despre familia mea si despre copilul meu. Si noi am trecut prin aceeasi situatie.</p><p>Imi pare rau ca nu pot sa te sustin in mod public, dar imi este frica de consecintele pe care ar putea sa le sufere copilul meu daca o fac.&#8221;</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/nu-sunt-singur-alti-parinti-din-transylvania-college-spun-povestea?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/nu-sunt-singur-alti-parinti-din-transylvania-college-spun-povestea?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h4>8. Florean Olimpia</h4><p>&#8222;&#206;n&#539;eleg perfect situa&#539;ia dumneavoastr&#259;. &#536;i noi ne-am trezit cu un copil suspendat de azi pe m&#226;ine, f&#259;r&#259; s&#259; fi cunoscut ca ar avea vreo problem&#259;. Nu este normal ca p&#259;rin&#539;ii s&#259; nu cunoasc&#259; problemele copiilor din &#537;coal&#259; (dac&#259; acestea ar exista). Am schimbat &#537;coala &#537;i de&#537;i nu vorbea sau scria rom&#226;ne&#537;te, este bine &#537;i mul&#539;umit acum &#238;n Liceul Mihai Eminescu. Faptul ca b&#259;iatul meu nu a reu&#537;it timp de 2 ani s&#259; fie bine &#238;n aceast&#259; &#537;coal&#259;, dup&#259; un sistem canadian, a fost suficient pentru mine. Incredibil cum miss Ruxandra propov&#259;duie&#537;te s&#259; nu ne credem copiii, c&#259; ei ne mint!! Asta ar trebui s&#259; fie un mare semn de &#238;ntrebare pentru to&#539;i p&#259;rin&#539;ii acestei &#537;coli! M&#259; &#238;ntreb cine ar avea nevoie de consiliere&#8230;&#8221;</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/nu-sunt-singur-alti-parinti-din-transylvania-college-spun-povestea?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/nu-sunt-singur-alti-parinti-din-transylvania-college-spun-povestea?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h4>9. Anonim</h4><p>&#8220;Buna Sergiu,</p><p>Din p&#259;cate si noi am renun&#539;at la TC dupa 2 ani acolo tot din cazua Ruxandrei. Am semnat un contract cu ni&#537;te termeni &#537;i detalii &#238;n martie,iar &#238;n iunie am fost informa&#539;i ca se schimba totul.  C&#226;nd am cerut l&#259;muriri am fost trata&#539;i cu superioritate ba chiar ni s-a r&#259;spuns foarte urat &#537;i "ca la u&#537;a cortului".</p><p>Personal auzind ca au fost cazuri de copii exmatricula&#539;i am decis sa &#238;l retrag pt a nu ajunge &#238;n situa&#539;ia de a r&#259;m&#226;ne f&#259;r&#259; &#537;coal&#259; &#238;n mijlocul anului.</p><p>Nu postez public pentru ca &#537;tiu ca femeia respectiva are probleme mari, dar are &#537;i multe rela&#539;ii &#537;i nu vreau sa &#238;mi creez singura probleme.&#8221;</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/nu-sunt-singur-alti-parinti-din-transylvania-college-spun-povestea?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/nu-sunt-singur-alti-parinti-din-transylvania-college-spun-povestea?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h4>10. Anonim</h4><p>&#8220;La noi a fost mai urat. Mi-a acuzat copilul de antisemitism, l-a suspendat 3 s&#259;pt&#259;m&#226;ni &#238;nainte de examene year 11. Copilul venit din  Bucure&#537;ti la TC, era cu probleme (l-au exmatriculat pana la urma) dar al meu care era de 12 ani la TC nu a avut nici un drept la replica.</p><p>Felicit&#259;ri pentru curaj!</p><p>Am reu&#537;it sa-l transferam la stat dup&#259; doi ani de calvar la TC&#8221;</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/nu-sunt-singur-alti-parinti-din-transylvania-college-spun-povestea?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/nu-sunt-singur-alti-parinti-din-transylvania-college-spun-povestea?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h4>11. Ioana</h4><p>&#8220;Buna</p><p>Sunt si eu unul dintre parintii care a trecut prin aceleasi situatii la TC. Am fost fortati sa plecam din scoala la final de clasa 8(Grade 9). Am intrat atunci in panica unde va face copilul meu liceul, unde va fi primit, cum se va descurca avand in vedere ca nu a invatat pe curiculla traditionala, am trecut prin momente cumplite si traumatizante, in prag de liceu sa primesti o asemenea veste, nu mai spun de trauma copilului &#8220;dar de ce&#8221;..&#8221;de ce eu&#8221; noteleme mele sunt mai bune ca si ale altor colegi&#8221;&#8230;etc. R a refuzat orice intalnire sau discutie fata in fata, nici macar la mailuiri nu a raspuns. Avea mereu &#8220;trimisii&#8221; ei care ii executau ordinele. Recunosc ca ne-am conformat si am plecat cu capul plecat pentru ca nu am avut energia si curajul sa dau scoala in judecata pentru ca eram convinsa ca ma voi lupta cu morile de vant. Nu stiam ca sunt si alte familii in situatia noastra , probabil daca ne-am fi unit toti am fi reusit sa schimbam conducerea dictatoriala. Ma bucur sa aud ca sunt parinti cu atitudine care nu lasa lucrurile asa. Noi nu mai suntem la TC, copilul meu este la un liceu de stat acum, dar va sustin pe voi toti ceilalti, din toate punctele de vedere!&#8221;</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/nu-sunt-singur-alti-parinti-din-transylvania-college-spun-povestea?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/nu-sunt-singur-alti-parinti-din-transylvania-college-spun-povestea?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h4>12. Diana M.</h4><p>&#8220;Ne reg&#259;sim asa de mult in tot ce ai scris. Am citit cu un nod in stomac ceea ce ai scris deoarece experienta de la Transylvania College a &#238;nsemnat un stres imens pentru familia noastra. Si noi am fost for&#539;a&#539;i sa plecam si suna&#539;i de pe o zi pe alta sa nu ne mai aducem copilul. Chiar daca copilul era pe atunci la cre&#537;&#259; la finalul anului, toat&#259; povestea a fost oribil&#259; si ne-a l&#259;sat cu un gust amar. Pe de-o parte ne-am bucurat ca s-a &#238;nt&#226;mplat atunci si nu mult mai t&#226;rziu astfel &#238;nc&#226;t si copilul sa &#238;n&#539;eleag&#259; ce se &#238;nt&#226;mpl&#259; dar totu&#537;i a fost o experienta pe care nu o doresc nim&#259;nui.</p><p>&#206;mi pare r&#259;u ca ati trecut prin asta, sincer!&#8221;</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/nu-sunt-singur-alti-parinti-din-transylvania-college-spun-povestea?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/nu-sunt-singur-alti-parinti-din-transylvania-college-spun-povestea?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><div><hr></div><p><strong>Ultima actualizare: 05.09.2025 - 14:50</strong> <br>Voi continua s&#259; <strong>actualizez acest articol</strong> pe m&#259;sur&#259; ce primesc noi informa&#539;ii</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>Spune-&#539;i povestea!</strong> Las&#259; un comment mai jos sau scrie-mi pe <strong>e-mail la sergiu@sergiubiris.ro</strong> sau <strong>mesaj privat pe <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sergiubiris/">Facebook</a> / <a href="https://www.instagram.com/sergiubiris/">Insta</a></strong>. Anonimizez datele sensibile &#537;i public doar fapte verificabile</p><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/nu-sunt-singur-alti-parinti-din-transylvania-college-spun-povestea?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/nu-sunt-singur-alti-parinti-din-transylvania-college-spun-povestea?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[[PODCAST] Ce se întâmplă la Transylvania College?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Am vorbit &#238;n acest podcast despre toat&#259; experien&#539;a prin care am trecut cu Transylvania College: proceduri s&#259;rite, actul adi&#539;ional &#537;i impactul asupra copiilor.]]></description><link>https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/podcast-ce-se-intampla-la-transylvania-college</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/podcast-ce-se-intampla-la-transylvania-college</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sergiu Biriș]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 11:04:40 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/Vi7tKcAEghc" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/podcast-ce-se-intampla-la-transylvania-college?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/podcast-ce-se-intampla-la-transylvania-college?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p><strong>Transylvania College, nici dup&#259; 48 de ore, nu a oferit un r&#259;spuns</strong>. E &#238;n regul&#259;, &#537;i t&#259;cerea e un r&#259;spuns.</p><div class="embedded-post-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;id&quot;:172504690,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/transylvania-college-presiune-hartuire-abuz-institutional&quot;,&quot;publication_id&quot;:6165290,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Sergiu Biri&#537; Blog&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7yuO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd8670557-7f2b-44eb-ba4e-50148097a935_512x512.png&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Presiune, h&#259;r&#539;uire &#537;i abuz institu&#539;ional. 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Cum am fost for&#539;a&#539;i s&#259; ne retragem copiii de la Transylvania College</div></div><div class="embedded-post-body">Click here for the English Version&#8230;</div><div class="embedded-post-cta-wrapper"><span class="embedded-post-cta">Read more</span></div><div class="embedded-post-meta">7 months ago &#183; 38 likes &#183; 52 comments &#183; Sergiu Biri&#537;</div></a></div><p>Am vorbit &#238;n acest podcast despre toat&#259; experien&#539;a prin care am trecut: proceduri s&#259;rite, actul adi&#539;ional &#537;i impactul asupra copiilor.<br><br><a href="https://youtu.be/Vi7tKcAEghc?si=bhL7dCL7Q8JtvTWa">Link extern, &#238;n caz c&#259; nu se poate vizualiza video mai jos</a></p><div id="youtube2-Vi7tKcAEghc" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;Vi7tKcAEghc&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Vi7tKcAEghc?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/podcast-ce-se-intampla-la-transylvania-college?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/podcast-ce-se-intampla-la-transylvania-college?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p>&#206;n <strong>opinia mea</strong>, pentru a restabili &#238;ncrederea comunit&#259;&#539;ii &#238;n Transylvania College sunt necesare <strong>imediat</strong>:</p><p>1. <strong>&#206;ncetarea</strong> oric&#259;ror sesiuni de &#8222;coaching&#8221; &#539;inute de Ruxandra Baciu cu elevii; consilierea s&#259; fie f&#259;cut&#259; doar de speciali&#537;ti acredita&#539;i, &#238;n cadru profesional, cu respectarea confiden&#539;ialit&#259;&#539;ii.</p><p>2. <strong>Renun&#539;area</strong> la acte adi&#539;ionale abuzive &#537;i discriminatorii, inclusiv denun&#539;area imediat&#259; a celor existente, f&#259;r&#259; repercusiuni pentru p&#259;rin&#539;i &#537;i copii.</p><p>3. <strong>Schimbare de leadership:</strong> demisia doamnei Ruxandra Baciu din func&#539;ia de director executiv &#537;i numirea unui director interimar cu experien&#539;&#259; dovedit&#259; &#238;n management educa&#539;ional.</p><p>4. <strong>Guvernan&#539;&#259;</strong>: constituirea unui board independent (majoritar membri externi, f&#259;r&#259; raport de subordonare fa&#539;&#259; de director), cu puteri explicite de numire/&#238;nlocuire a directorului executiv, audit anual de conformitate (disciplin&#259;, safeguarding, date) &#537;i raport de transparen&#539;&#259; la final de an.</p><p>Nu e despre r&#259;zbunare. E despre proceduri corecte, propor&#539;ionalitate &#537;i respect fa&#539;&#259; de elevi &#537;i p&#259;rin&#539;i.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/podcast-ce-se-intampla-la-transylvania-college?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/podcast-ce-se-intampla-la-transylvania-college?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pressure, harassment and institutional abuse. How we were forced to withdraw our children from Transylvania College]]></title><description><![CDATA[A personal story about pressure, imposed clauses and emotional blackmail from Transylvania College and Ruxandra Baciu (Mercea)]]></description><link>https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/transylvania-college-pressure-harassment-institutional-abuse</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/transylvania-college-pressure-harassment-institutional-abuse</guid><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2025 12:10:07 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a7ab476e-4e01-4fbb-9a62-b1290e51db5e_940x788.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><a href="https://bsergiu.substack.com/p/transylvania-college-presiune-hartuire-abuz-institutional">Click aici pentru versiunea &#238;n limba Rom&#226;n&#259;</a></strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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experiences</strong>, <strong>my perceptions</strong>, and information from <strong>open sources</strong> that led me to the convictions I share here. I don&#8217;t aim to persuade anyone; for me, writing is a form of personal therapy&#8212;telling the truth. The truth will set you free.</em></p><p><em>I do not wish to attack the school or Ms. <strong>Ruxandra Baciu</strong> personally. How she manages her resources is her responsibility.</em></p><p><em>I only want to briefly recall a part of my child&#8217;s childhood that, in my view, the school&#8217;s owner took away&#8212;the right to play with his friends. Through what I experienced as emotional blackmail, we were pushed to the limit of compliance&#8212;&#8220;we are obliged to sign an addendum.&#8221;</em></p><p><em>This is not just my story or my child&#8217;s story but, as I see it, the story of many <strong>captive families</strong> who remain silent out of fear for their children&#8217;s education. I have broken those chains and accept the consequences of that freedom.</em></p><p><em>If any factual information in this text is incorrect, I ask the school&#8217;s representatives to write to me and provide the relevant documents; I will amend the article accordingly. I do not want to throw mud at the school where my children studied; I want us to understand why we, as parents, sometimes become <strong>prisoners of social conventions</strong>.</em></p><p><em>My child had the strength to say, &#8220;I don&#8217;t want this anymore,&#8221; and we stand with him.</em></p><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/transylvania-college-pressure-harassment-institutional-abuse?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/transylvania-college-pressure-harassment-institutional-abuse?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><h2>Who I am and why I&#8217;m writing this story</h2><p>I&#8217;m <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/sergiubiris/">Sergiu Biri&#537;</a>, 42, an entrepreneur from Cluj-Napoca and the father of two children, aged 10 and 14&#8212;until recently students at Transylvania College.</p><p>With this piece, I aim to bring <strong>transparency to the extremely stressful experience Transylvania College has put us through over the past three months</strong> and to speak about certain aspects I haven&#8217;t been able to make public until now. I hope it helps other parents.</p><p>I will set out, in chronological order, what happened, what documents we received, what pressure was put on us, what we were asked to sign, and why we ultimately decided to leave Transylvania College.</p><p>This is our <strong>personal family experience</strong>, based on meetings, documents received from the school, and written correspondence.</p><h2>Context</h2><h3>We were clients of Transylvania College for more than 10 years.</h3><p>Our children, Catia (10) and Sebastian (14), have been part of Transylvania College since kindergarten. Until this year (2025) we had no issues with the school. Everything seemed to run smoothly. The kids were happy.</p><p>From a customer-of-a-business perspective, I estimate we have paid the school <strong>over &#8364;200,000</strong> during these years.</p><p>Beyond that, we tried to be active in the community and help the school grow. We took part in organizing the school gala, served as judges for students&#8217; startup projects, and offered consulting on the school&#8217;s digital development, etc.</p><p>We invested a lot&#8212;<strong>financially</strong> and <strong>emotionally</strong>.</p><h3>Where it all began: Ruxandra Baciu&#8217;s (Mercea) &#8220;coaching&#8221; sessions</h3><p>The problems started to appear over the last year. Ruxandra Baciu (formerly Mercea), the owner of the school, began getting actively involved in the children&#8217;s education through various &#8220;coaching&#8221; sessions she started holding for students in the upper grades (eighth grade and up).</p><p>For context: Ruxandra Baciu has no accreditation in this regard. She is not a psychologist or an educator within the school&#8217;s curriculum. She is the school&#8217;s <strong>owner</strong>, and nothing more from an educational standpoint. Even so, these &#8220;coaching&#8221; sessions began and continued for quite some time without us, the parents, intervening, because we tried to avoid conflicts with Ruxandra Baciu as much as possible.</p><p>If anyone had questions about the legitimacy of these sessions (lack of accreditation, etc.), the answer given was that the school psychologist, Ms. <strong>Cristina Ungvari</strong>, participated in these meetings, &#8220;so it&#8217;s fine.&#8221; However, Cristina Ungvari did <strong>not</strong> attend all the sessions.</p><p>Ms. Cristina Ungvari is a <strong>psychologist in supervised practice</strong> and a <strong>psychotherapist in supervised practice</strong>. My observations concern the <strong>imposition of therapy</strong> and the <strong>requirement to submit reports to the school</strong>, not the therapist&#8217;s professional qualification. <br><br>A &#8220;psychologist in supervised practice&#8221; holds a <strong>license to practice, but under supervision</strong>; it is not the same as the &#8220;autonomous/independent&#8221; level.</p><blockquote><p><strong>This whole &#8220;let&#8217;s play at being psychologists and therapists&#8212;without accreditation&#8221; thing is, in any case, a recurring theme in this story and in the school&#8217;s overall way of operating, as you&#8217;ll see next.</strong></p></blockquote><p>Another response we received&#8212;from Anca Rusu, the school&#8217;s current head&#8212;was: &#8220;Given how many therapy sessions Ruxandra has had&#8230; she knows what she&#8217;s doing.&#8221; So if you&#8217;ve been to a psychologist, you automatically become a good psychologist. By that logic, if you&#8217;ve set the forest on fire many times, you&#8217;re probably a good firefighter.</p><blockquote><p><em><strong>How can this be the logic by which an educational institution in Romania shapes children&#8217;s minds?</strong></em></p></blockquote><p>And that&#8217;s precisely the core of the problem: you call yourself a &#8220;coach&#8221; and shape children&#8217;s minds as you please&#8212;without accreditation and without anyone able to stop you.</p><h3>The &#8220;wokeness&#8221; ideology taught at Transylvania College</h3><p>The most painful issue is actually tied to the principles, directions, and ideology that R.B. holds&#8212;things that ripple through the school and, by extension, our children. I&#8217;m speaking specifically about the<a href="https://paulgraham.com/woke.html"> </a><strong><a href="https://paulgraham.com/woke.html">wokeness</a> </strong>ideology<strong>,</strong>, a more aggressive form of the &#8220;political correctness&#8221; wave found in the United States. A simple example, plainly put: no one is allowed to say anything to you, because any minor negative situation or conflict is interpreted as &#8220;bullying.&#8221; I&#8217;m talking here even about situations like: <em>you disagreed with what I said and I saw you roll your eyes = bullying</em>; or <em>irony/sarcasm = bullying</em>. In practice, the way I see it, anything you do can be interpreted as bullying.</p><p>And if this is the direction R.B. wants for Transylvania College, you start to worry about the &#8220;coaching sessions,&#8221; what they mean for my child, and what he is learning from them&#8230;</p><blockquote><p><em><strong>But I said nothing. Because we didn&#8217;t want to get on R.B.&#8217;s bad side&#8212;probably just like many of you reading this.</strong></em></p></blockquote><p>Except things didn&#8217;t stop there. That was only the beginning.</p><p></p><h2>Sebastian&#8217;s suspension from school</h2><p>On <strong>Friday, May 16, 2025, at 4:00 p.m.</strong>, we received the following email from Transylvania College:</p><blockquote><p><em>&#8221;Dear Ms and Mr Biris,<br><br>Unfortunately, Sebastian will be suspended from attendance at school for 3 days next week starting on Monday, the 19th of May 2025.</em></p><p><em>Please find the details of the suspensions in the letter attached.</em></p><p><em>If you wish to discuss the period of suspension, any conditions imposed please contact &#8230;&#8221;</em></p></blockquote><p><strong>This is the suspension letter: <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_Pk6BbqC6SuTklQoq1DE59Su1BTbDvya/view?usp=drive_link">Internal Suspension letter (PDF)</a>.</strong></p><p>&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;</p><p>So, on the last day of the week&#8212;Friday at 4:00 p.m.&#8212;you tell me that starting Monday Sebastian is suspended from school for three days.</p><p>The document claims that, in accordance with the school&#8217;s Behaviour Policy and after &#8220;several prior restorative measures,&#8221; Sebastian was suspended. But this was the first time we had heard of any such thing. Despite what the document says, we received no prior notice whatsoever.</p><p>What&#8217;s more, two days earlier we had a meeting with the then head of school, Ms. Vancea, to discuss Sebastian&#8217;s future as he was due to continue into high school. We talked about which subjects he should choose for high school, and so on. Ms. Vancea had nothing but praise for Sebastian, so we had no reason to worry. Moreover, his form tutor, Ms. Lidia Paun, knew nothing about this suspension; she also found out on Friday, at the same time we did.</p><p>So after the suspension email, we refused to accept what was written in that letter and asked for a meeting at the school. It had to be a mistake. But writing emails was pointless, because it was Friday afternoon&#8212;who was going to answer?!</p><p>So, first thing Monday morning we went to the school to try to get a meeting. No matter whom we talked to, all roads led to Ruxandra Baciu. The suspension had been &#8220;served&#8221; by her. Apparently, she was the one best placed to know what&#8217;s good for the children. She knew who was well-behaved and who wasn&#8217;t&#8212;after all, she was doing &#8220;coaching&#8221; with them.</p><p>We tried to get a meeting with R.B., but without success. Eventually, purely by chance, we ran into her in the hallway and managed to get a meeting scheduled for the next day, Tuesday.</p><p>I told her it had to be a mistake and that we had brought Sebastian to school until things were clarified. She said no, the suspension stands. Sebastian is not allowed at school. <strong>&#8220;Come tomorrow with Sebastian and then we&#8217;ll see what kind of child we&#8217;re dealing with.&#8221; &#8220;Don&#8217;t believe anything your son tells you&#8212;he&#8217;s lying to you!&#8221;</strong> (!!!)</p><p>Naturally, after such a characterization we started to worry; we talked to our son to figure out what the problem might be. Sebastian said he didn&#8217;t know what he had done, or what could be so serious as to warrant a suspension. No matter how much we talked it through, we reached the same conclusion. Nothing seemed serious enough to require a suspension&#8212;especially an immediate one.</p><p>After talking with Sebastian, we became increasingly appalled by the way the school had handled the situation: no prior notice, no email, no warning, nothing. Suspension right off the bat&#8212;end of story.</p><p>So we began reading more about the school&#8217;s Behaviour Policy and about what &#8220;bullying&#8221; actually means, because that&#8217;s what this seemed to be about.</p><p>According to Transylvania College&#8217;s own policy, the school can suspend a student for three days only after applying a <strong>restorative process</strong> (as mentioned in the email), made up of <strong>three levels</strong> (a ladder for escalating any situation):</p><ul><li><p><strong>Level 1: Restorative Meeting</strong></p><p>A facilitated meeting to repair harm and rebuild trust among those involved.</p></li><li><p><strong>Level 2: Group Intervention</strong></p><p>Focused group sessions, tracking of behaviour change. Community service is assigned to those who bullied or remained silent bystanders.</p></li><li><p><strong>Level 3: 3-Day Suspension + Family Therapy</strong></p><p>A three-day suspension plus mandatory start of individual or family therapy. Both parents/guardians involved in the child's life must participate.</p></li></ul><blockquote><p><em><strong>We were at Level 3 without having gone through the first two. We had no email, no minutes, nothing. They just suspended him&#8212;end of story.</strong></em></p></blockquote><p>Even under national legislation there&#8217;s a similar escalation ladder&#8212;at the very least you notify the parent that there&#8217;s a problem. You don&#8217;t suspend a child from the outset. But it seems Transylvania College has its own country; it doesn&#8217;t go by Romanian law.</p><div><hr></div><blockquote><p><strong>Legal framework, in brief</strong></p><p>&#8226; <strong>Law 221/2019</strong> (amending the National Education Law 1/2011): explicitly bans <strong>bullying</strong> and requires schools to have clear intervention procedures.</p><p>&#8226; <strong>Order 4343/2020</strong> (anti-bullying norms): requires a <strong>documented investigation within 48 hours</strong>, <strong>parent notification</strong>, and <strong>progressive measures</strong> (restorative &#8594; consequences) &#8212; not immediate punishment &#8220;from the start.&#8221;</p><p>&#8226; <strong>The school&#8217;s policy</strong> mirrors the same ladder (Level 1 &#8594; Level 2 &#8594; Level 3).</p><p><em>Full texts:</em> <a href="https://legislatie.just.ro/Public/DetaliiDocumentAfis/219895">Law 221/2019</a> &#183; <a href="https://legislatie.just.ro/Public/DetaliiDocument/226679">Order 4343/2020</a></p></blockquote><div><hr></div><p>The meeting with R.B. was next, and we already felt wronged, but we hoped we could resolve something. It wasn&#8217;t such a big deal for our son to be suspended, but why should that be on his record if it wasn&#8217;t warranted? Moreover, if he made another mistake, he&#8217;d already be eligible for another suspension or even expulsion&#8230;</p><p></p><h2>The meeting with Ruxandra Baciu</h2><p>The next day, we met with R.B., who asked that the meeting begin with just Sebastian&#8212;she and he would talk in front of us, but we were not to intervene. In the second phase, we adults would draw the conclusions.</p><p>The first part of the meeting was a shock to me. R.B. pulled out a list of everything that could count as bullying&#8212;starting with the kind we all know, involving violence, etc.&#8212;but the list was much longer; it included sarcasm, irony, or rolling one&#8217;s eyes as forms of bullying. Then she started walking Sebastian through a checklist of anything he could remember having done&#8230; ever. She asked Sebi why he thought he was there.</p><p>Sebi replied that most likely it was because he laughed during her coaching sessions.</p><blockquote><p>RB: &#8220;No, that&#8217;s not why you&#8217;re here.&#8221; Then she went through the list&#8230; and after many checkpoints where she kept pressing Sebi to remember what he&#8217;d done in the past&#8230;</p><p>RB: &#8220;Isn&#8217;t it true that you walked past the seventh-grade class in the hallway and said some girls were &#8216;whores&#8217;?&#8221;</p><p>S: &#8220;I&#8217;ve never called the girls that; I don&#8217;t remember.&#8221;</p><p>RB: &#8220;You don&#8217;t remember. When feelings are intense, they block your memory&#8230;&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>Of course a child doesn&#8217;t remember everything he has or hasn&#8217;t done over the last few school years. Who knows&#8212;maybe at some point, on some chat, he called some girls &#8220;bitches.&#8221; But I&#8217;m certain he has never used the word &#8220;whore&#8221; in a hallway, in public. I know my son. And anyone who knows Sebi knows he isn&#8217;t a bully.</p><p>The manipulative way the questions were put, extracting a &#8220;confession&#8221; of everything the child had ever done or not done at school just to prove he&#8217;s a bully&#8212;made me sick.</p><p>As a parent, as a father, I barely held myself back from making a scene. I waited for that grotesque session of manipulative questioning to end, and then it was our turn to talk.</p><p>I tried to confront her, to say they hadn&#8217;t respected their own <strong>Behaviour Policy</strong>&#8212;which should have meant we would have been informed much earlier if there was truly a problem. I tried to define bullying as it&#8217;s defined in law, not according to a list from which it follows that everything counts as bullying. I tried many things, but without success.</p><p>She said, <strong>&#8220;we would have reached suspension anyway&#8221;</strong> (!!!).</p><p>In other words, the suspension was predetermined.</p><p>Basically, we were tilting at windmills.</p><blockquote><p>The only thing left I could do at that point was tell her there was just one bully in that conversation: <strong>her</strong>. <strong>Her behavior in that meeting was, in my opinion, intimidating and abusive.</strong></p></blockquote><p>I told her I believe she is trying to push us out of the school, even though I don&#8217;t understand why. And that she can abuse parents because there are hardly any alternatives.</p><p>I also told her she applies double standards. There was an incident in the past when one of Sebastian&#8217;s classmates, pushed Sebi during recess, and Sebi fell and broke his arm. We spent hours with him in the ER; he had to undergo general anesthesia so they could set the bone. He lost his spot on the basketball team. He missed the ski vacation.</p><p>That boy was not suspended. Perhaps because he is the son of the person who owns the company that handled the school&#8217;s interior design. Perhaps.</p><p>In short, I told her that we believe she is subjecting us to an abuse simply because she can.</p><blockquote><p><em><strong>After the meeting, even though we knew we wouldn&#8217;t achieve much, we decided to send the school a formal notice expressing our dissatisfaction and reiterating that the process had been unfair. We stated that we had lost trust in a school that does not respect its own rules and resorts to abusive practices.</strong></em></p></blockquote><p><strong><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E_SqkQfRv39WG-XV7N4X34NimZcLPduo/view?usp=drive_link">The notification can be viewed here</a>. </strong>It has an official registration number in the school&#8217;s archive.</p><p>We never received a reply to that notice.</p><p>After the suspension, we thought it would all be over. We thought R.B. would be satisfied that she had shown her power, stroked her ego, and that would be that. She would stop there. But no&#8212;it turned out to be only the first step. Step two followed.</p><p></p><h2>The Addendum. Forced to sign a discriminatory, impossible-to-sign addendum in order to continue at the school.</h2><p>A month later, on June 25, we&#8212;together with 11 other families (as far as I know; there may be more)&#8212;received by email an addendum that we were required to sign for Sebastian to be allowed to continue at Transylvania College.</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;I hope my message finds you well. Following the suspension period, an addendum has been prepared which sets out the expectations regarding behaviour and the therapy requirements.</p><p>Please find the document attached; it will need to be signed by you and returned at the start of the school year. We will fill in the information regarding the contract number.</p><p>For the therapy-related requirements, you will need to be in contact with Cristina Ungvari, Head of Wellbeing (cc&#8217;d).</p><p>I hope Sebi and Catia have a lovely vacation and that we&#8217;ll see each other again in the new school year.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p><strong><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Rse6NVVAmSYZ5XgK2YXrfWGnHqQfEC-F/view?usp=drive_link">You can see the addendum here</a></strong>.</p><p>You don&#8217;t need to be a lawyer or any kind of legal expert to realize that document is an unacceptable document with disproportionate clauses. .</p><ul><li><p>A discriminatory document, because not all parents at the school received it&#8212;only the &#8220;suspended&#8221; ones.</p></li><li><p>A document that requires us to undergo <strong>family therapy for a minimum of two years (!!!!)</strong>, plus to send regular updates on the status of that therapy&#8230;</p></li><li><p>Plus: &#8220;If the student engages in any other antisocial, bullying-type behaviors, this will lead to an immediate suspension, as part of the ongoing behavioral support and consequences already in place. Continued incidents may lead to an extended suspension.&#8221;</p></li></ul><p>Given that <strong>EVERYTHING</strong> can be interpreted as bullying, what more can I say about that last clause?</p><blockquote><p><em><strong>So my family has to sign that we agree with you that we have a problem and that we need at least two years of therapy?! Just so we can continue at the school? Seriously?</strong></em></p></blockquote><p>So clearly, it&#8217;s something you just can&#8217;t sign. No sane person would sign such a thing. </p><p>As a side note: I have no problem with going to therapy. And I probably would have been willing to go through such a process if there had been <strong>evidence of a real problem. But nothing was ever presented to us.</strong> Only personal opinions, words, and R.B.&#8217;s subjective conclusions&#8212;on the basis of which Sebastian was suspended.</p><p>Of course we did not sign this document. What followed were email after email in which we refused to sign and asked, in writing, for confirmation that signing this addendum was <strong>not</strong> required for Sebastian to continue at the school.</p><p>The only responses we received from <strong>Anca Rusu</strong> and <strong>Cristina Ungvari</strong>, R.B.&#8217;s two assistants, were that we could not continue at the school without signing that document.</p><p>Then, finally, we received a message reiterating that we needed therapy and recommending the office of a certain lady who, as we later found out, is also <strong>not a licensed psychologist</strong> (!!!). Not that we would have gone ahead with the therapy, but if we&#8217;re going to play at &#8220;wellbeing,&#8221; I still expected a minimum of effort from the &#8220;professionals&#8221; at Transylvania College. </p><p>Then, in the midst of this email exchange, something extremely interesting happened:</p><p></p><h2>The first court victory against the contractual abuses of Transylvania College and Ruxandra Baciu. A unique precedent in Cluj-Napoca.</h2><p>In the meantime, one of the families&#8212;friends of ours&#8212;moved quickly and sued Transylvania College for the abusive, unilateral termination of their son&#8217;s enrollment contract. In other words, exactly what was about to happen to us as well.</p><p>The best part? <strong>THEY WON!</strong> They secured the boy&#8217;s reinstatement at the school, via an emergency procedure, in record time.</p><p>As far as I know, this is the second such case in Romania and the first in Cluj-Napoca. An extremely valuable precedent against the abuses of Transylvania College and Ruxandra Baciu.</p><p><strong>Yes, a court ruling ordered the student&#8217;s reinstatement on an emergency basis; in my opinion, it confirms the contractual abuses.</strong></p><p></p><h2>We chose to terminate our contracts with Transylvania College and move our children to another school.</h2><p>We reached <strong>September 1, 2025</strong>. This whole ordeal began on <strong>May 16</strong>&#8212;three and a half months ago.</p><p>At Transylvania College, the new school year starts today, <strong>September 2</strong>.</p><p>Responses from Transylvania College stopped coming. The only message they came back with was a proposal for a face-to-face meeting. They wouldn&#8217;t provide a clear written reply confirming they were dropping the requirement to sign the addendum:</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;We believe that a calm, open, face-to-face conversation can help us find common ground to support Sebastian&#8217;s development in a healthy and responsible way, <strong>in line with the school&#8217;s values and his real needs.</strong>&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>In other words, the school knows the child&#8217;s REAL needs&#8212;not us, the parents.</p><p>I think they had already realized they&#8217;d put themselves in a position they couldn&#8217;t win from, given the precedent set in court, where they lost shamefully.</p><p>They probably planned to pressure us to sign that addendum when we came to the school, in a face-to-face conversation, since the school year was about to start. Time was working in their favor.</p><blockquote><p><em><strong>It was clear we no longer had any chance of success in this effort, so we chose to terminate the contracts ourselves. R.B. probably got what she wanted. We left the school. I hope she&#8217;s happy now.</strong></em></p></blockquote><p>The less visible part of this whole ordeal, was how deeply the children were affected. They kept asking, &#8220;What did we do wrong? Why us? Why do we have to change schools?&#8221; That, more than anything, drove me to write this article.</p><p></p><h2>Why has no one spoken up until now? Leverage, pressure, influence, and connections.</h2><p>You might be wondering&#8212;just as I did&#8212;why nothing has been heard from other parents until now. Because I know of multiple cases that haven&#8217;t come to light yet. There were 12 families, including us, who received the addendum. I&#8217;ve heard a few of them are starting legal action. Who knows how many more there have been in the past&#8230;</p><p>The answer is complicated. R.B. has many levers she uses to get whatever she wants. And if she doesn&#8217;t get it, she probably prefers to <strong>force, pressure, harass,</strong> and <strong>abuse</strong>&#8212;with no one stepping in to stop it.</p><p>A few reasons I personally see for why she gets away with everything:</p><ul><li><p><strong>There is no independent oversight board at the school.</strong> R.B. can do anything without being challenged by anyone. Her parents&#8212;<strong>the school&#8217;s true founders</strong>&#8212;were at one point on the board, but they chose to leave. And when I say &#8220;they chose to leave,&#8221; there&#8217;s room here for an investigative article where I&#8217;ll leave it to more professional people to do their job.</p></li><li><p><strong>Pressure and leverage over parents whose children are in the school.</strong> Once you&#8217;ve started on the English track and the Cambridge/Edexcel curriculum (i.e., schooling as in the UK), it&#8217;s very hard to transfer your child to another school&#8212;especially into the Romanian track. The only alternative in Cluj is Royal School, a smaller school with a similar curriculum, where we will also be moving our children. As a parent, when you&#8217;re left with only one other option, you end up having to swallow (almost) anything. You make a sponsorship, do a favor, this and that. But if you don&#8217;t, there&#8217;s a good chance you&#8217;ll have problems later on. In other words: the school abuses its dominant position. R.B. knows you don&#8217;t have a choice.</p></li><li><p><strong>Parents who leave no longer have a reason to tell their story.</strong> After going through the ordeal, parents who leave Transylvania College don&#8217;t have the energy, time, inclination, or money to keep fighting or to speak up. They just want to see their children transferred and happy somewhere else. R.B. relies on that.</p></li><li><p><strong>Many of the teachers and staff are in the same situation as the parents</strong>, because they also have children at the school. So they have no choice. They keep quiet and go along. They&#8217;re just executors who sign and send abusive emails with a smile, at R.B.&#8217;s command&#8212;turning a blind eye and believing they&#8217;re doing the right thing.</p></li><li><p><strong>Leverage over the authorities:</strong> City Hall and Emil Boc probably cater to R.B. for two reasons: (1) having a good international school in the city helps attract expats and international investors; and (2) if this school were to shut down, Cluj would immediately face a social problem with 1,000 children left without access to education and families with no options. In other words, a major bargaining chip for obtaining ANYTHING from the authorities. I presume that&#8217;s how you end up with scandals like <a href="https://pressone.ro/un-oras-pentru-bogati-2-o-afacere-exclusivista-infiintata-pe-terenul-statului-sub-pretextul-utilitatii-publice">the ones reported by PressOne</a>.</p></li></ul><p>R.B. knows all these things. She uses them and thus feels protected. I still hope there is backbone within the Romanian authorities&#8212;especially at the national level&#8212;because things cannot remain like this forever. I&#8217;m inclined to believe we are no longer a country where we can play God.</p><p>Personally, I have begun filing complaints with the <strong>Cluj County School Inspectorate</strong>, the <strong>Ministry of Education</strong>, the <strong>National Council for Combating Discrimination (CNCD)</strong>, <strong>ANAF</strong> (the National Agency for Fiscal Administration), the <strong>Competition Council</strong>, as well as with the accreditation bodies <strong>Cambridge Assessment International Education</strong> and <strong>Pearson Edexcel</strong>.</p><blockquote><p><em><strong>I believe abuses like this can no longer be swept under the rug. I refuse to stay silent and put up with it. It&#8217;s time for things to change.</strong></em></p></blockquote><p></p><h2>Conclusion</h2><blockquote><p><em><strong>I believe and hope that Transylvania College will never close.</strong></em></p></blockquote><p>But I also believe that this educational institution in Romania has a duty to operate in a way that shows <strong>respect, transparency, and fairness</strong> toward parents and children, <strong>honors its own rules</strong>, and <strong>complies with the laws of the country</strong>.</p><blockquote><p><em><strong>Transylvania College needs different leadership&#8212;one with a completely different attitude. I also believe it needs an independent board with the authority to dismiss even its founder, if the situation requires it. Checks and balances, as the Americans say, not a dictatorship. Otherwise, abuses like these by Transylvania College will only become more frequent.</strong></em></p></blockquote><p>I&#8217;m not publishing this article to &#8220;win the internet.&#8221; Personally, I have nothing left to gain. I&#8217;ve moved my children out of Transylvania College, and I have plenty of other things on my plate that would let me turn a blind eye and move on. But I can&#8217;t.</p><p>Reputation and trust are built over years and can be lost in a day. Any school&#8212;especially a private one&#8212;should understand that. When you ask parents for trust, follow your own rules. All of them. Every time.</p><p>If you&#8217;re going through a similar situation, I hope these lines save you time, money, and nerves. And perhaps help raise the standard for all private educational institutions in Romania.</p><p>If you&#8217;ve been through similar situations with Transylvania College, I encourage you to leave a comment below.</p><p>Transylvania College, see you in court.</p><p>Sergiu Biri&#537;</p><p>&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;</p><p><strong>P.S. 1:</strong> To counter this story, I expect R.B. to speak poorly about Sebastian and about us as a family. She&#8217;ll probably say he was a problem child, that I&#8217;m a frustrated father, etc. I expect this, because she&#8217;s done it before&#8212;including in the case with the precedent I mentioned above&#8212;where they wrote a <strong>90-page</strong> false document about how problematic that child was, how he disrupted classes, and so on. A child who is literally one of the most well-behaved and kind kids I know. <strong>Ninety pages of lies about a child, from an educational institution in Romania!</strong> Incredible.</p><p><strong>P.S. 2:</strong> Funny how life goes&#8212;back in 2015 I donated a sum of money toward the founding of Royal School, the very school we&#8217;re now moving our children to. I did it precisely because I believed Cluj needed an alternative. This article has nothing to do with that donation. I have no involvement in that project other than being a former donor&#8212;otherwise I would have moved my kids there at some point in the ten years since. If anything, it only shows how much trust I had in Transylvania College&#8230;</p><p><strong>PS 3:</strong> The <strong>evidence pack</strong>&#8212;documents and correspondence&#8212;in <strong>chronological order</strong> is available on request</p><div class="captioned-button-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/transylvania-college-pressure-harassment-institutional-abuse?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="CaptionedButtonToDOM"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Share, so this story reaches as many parents as possible:</p></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/transylvania-college-pressure-harassment-institutional-abuse?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/transylvania-college-pressure-harassment-institutional-abuse?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Update / Correction &#8212; 03.09.2025 - 11:00 AM:</strong> In an earlier version I stated that Ms. Cristina Ungvari &#8220;is not a licensed psychologist.&#8221; After re-checking the <strong>National Register of Psychologists (R.U.P.)</strong> on 03.09.2025, Ms. Cristina Ungv&#225;ri is listed as a <strong>&#8220;psychologist in supervised practice&#8221;</strong> and a <strong>&#8220;psychotherapist in supervised practice.&#8221;</strong> I have updated the text accordingly. 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Cum am fost forțați să ne retragem copiii de la Transylvania College]]></title><description><![CDATA[O poveste personal&#259; despre presiune, clauze impuse &#537;i pierderea &#238;ncrederii.]]></description><link>https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/transylvania-college-presiune-hartuire-abuz-institutional</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/transylvania-college-presiune-hartuire-abuz-institutional</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sergiu Biriș]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2025 12:09:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ad92e9b2-e741-4a3b-8bf8-637c75c51dcb_940x788.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><a href="https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/transylvania-college-pressure-harassment-institutional-abuse">Click here for the English Version</a></strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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mele</strong>, pe <strong>percep&#539;iile mele</strong> &#537;i pe informa&#539;ii <strong>din surse deschise</strong> care m-au condus la convingerile pe care le &#238;mp&#259;rt&#259;&#537;esc aici. Nu &#238;mi propun s&#259; conving pe nimeni; pentru mine scrisul este o form&#259; de terapie personal&#259; &#8211; a spune adev&#259;rul. The Truth will set you free.</em></p><p><em>Nu vreau s&#259; atac &#537;coala sau pe d-na. Ruxandra Baciu personal. Este problema d&#226;nsei cum &#238;&#537;i gestioneaz&#259; resursele.</em></p><p><em>Vreau doar s&#259; fac o scurt&#259; rememorare a unei p&#259;r&#539;i a copil&#259;riei pe care patroana &#537;colii i-a furat-o copilului meu - dreptul de a se juca cu prietenii lui. Prin ceea ce am resim&#539;it ca &#537;antaj emo&#539;ional, am fost &#238;mpin&#537;i spre limita supunerii &#8211; &#8221;suntem obliga&#539;i s&#259; semn&#259;m un act adi&#539;ional&#8221;.</em></p><p><em>Aceasta nu este doar povestea mea sau a copilului meu, ci, a&#537;a cum o v&#259;d eu, povestea <strong>multor familii captive</strong> care tac de team&#259; pentru educa&#539;ia copiilor lor. Eu am <strong>rupt lan&#539;urile</strong> &#537;i &#238;mi asum consecin&#539;ele libert&#259;&#539;ii.</em></p><p><em>Dac&#259; vreo <strong>informa&#539;ie factual&#259;</strong> din acest text nu este corect&#259;, &#238;i rog pe reprezentan&#539;ii &#537;colii s&#259;-mi scrie &#537;i s&#259; trimit&#259; <strong>documentele</strong> aferente; voi modifica articolul &#238;n consecin&#539;&#259;. Nu vreau s&#259; arunc cu noroi &#238;n &#537;coala &#238;n care au &#238;nv&#259;&#539;at copiii mei; vreau s&#259; &#238;n&#539;elegem <strong>de ce noi, p&#259;rin&#539;ii, ajungem uneori &#8222;de&#539;inu&#539;i&#8221; ai unor convenien&#539;e sociale</strong>.</em></p><p><em>Copilul meu a avut puterea s&#259; spun&#259; <strong>&#8222;nu mai vreau&#8221;</strong>, iar noi suntem <strong>al&#259;turi de el</strong>.</em></p><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/transylvania-college-presiune-hartuire-abuz-institutional?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/transylvania-college-presiune-hartuire-abuz-institutional?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><h2>Cine sunt &#537;i de ce scriu aceast&#259; poveste</h2><p>Sunt <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/sergiubiris/">Sergiu Biri&#537;</a>, 42 de ani, antreprenor din Cluj-Napoca, p&#259;rinte a doi copii de 10, respectiv 14 ani, p&#226;n&#259; de cur&#226;nd, elevi ai Transylvania College.</p><p>Prin acest text &#238;mi propun s&#259; ofer <strong>transparen&#539;&#259; cu privire la experien&#539;a extrem de stresant&#259; prin care Transylvania College ne-a t&#226;r&#226;t &#238;n ultimele 3 luni, </strong>&#537;i s&#259; vorbesc despre anumite aspecte pe care p&#226;n&#259; acum nu le-am putut face publice. Sper ca acest text s&#259; ajute al&#539;i p&#259;rin&#539;i.</p><p>Voi relata cronologic ce s-a &#238;nt&#226;mplat, ce documente am primit, ce presiuni s-au f&#259;cut asupra noastr&#259;, ce ni s-a cerut s&#259; semn&#259;m &#537;i de ce am decis, &#238;ntr-un final, s&#259; plec&#259;m din Transylvania College.</p><p>Acesta este <strong>experien&#539;a noastr&#259; personal&#259;</strong>, ca familie, bazat&#259; pe &#238;nt&#226;lniri, documente primite de la &#537;coal&#259; &#537;i coresponden&#539;&#259; scris&#259;.</p><h2>Context.</h2><h3>Am fost mai bine de 10 ani clien&#539;i ai Transylvania College</h3><p>Copiii no&#537;tri, Catia (10 ani) &#537;i Sebastian (14 ani) au fost parte din Transylvania College &#238;nc&#259; din gr&#259;dini&#539;&#259;. P&#226;n&#259; anul acesta (2025) nu am avut nicio problem&#259; cu &#537;coala. Totul p&#259;rea s&#259; decurg&#259; normal. Copiii erau ferici&#539;i.</p><p>Dac&#259; e s&#259; m&#259; uit din perspectiva unui client al unui business, cred c&#259; am pl&#259;tit &#537;colii mai bine de 200.000 Euro &#238;n ace&#537;ti ani.</p><p>Mai mult dec&#226;t at&#226;t, am &#238;ncercat s&#259; fim parte din comunitate &#537;i s&#259; ajut&#259;m la dezvoltarea &#537;colii. Am participat la organizarea balului &#537;colii, la juriz&#259;ri de proiecte de start-up ale copiilor, la oferirea de consultan&#539;&#259; pentru dezvoltarea digital&#259; a &#537;colii, etc.</p><p>Am investit mult. At&#226;t financiar, c&#226;t &#537;i emo&#539;ional.</p><h3>Unde a &#238;nceput totul: sesiunile de &#8221;coaching&#8221; ale Ruxandrei Baciu (Mercea)</h3><p>Problemele au &#238;nceput s&#259; apar&#259; &#238;n ultimul an. Ruxandra Baciu (fost&#259; Mercea), proprietara &#537;colii, a &#238;nceput s&#259; se implice activ &#238;n educa&#539;ia copiilor, prin diverse sesiuni de &#8221;coaching&#8221; pe care a &#238;nceput s&#259; le &#539;in&#259; copiilor din clase mai mari (de la clasa a 8-a &#238;n sus).</p><p>Ca &#537;i context: Ruxandra Baciu nu are nici un fel de acreditare &#238;n acest sens. Nu este psiholog sau educator &#238;n curricula &#537;colii. Este &#8221;patroana&#8221; &#537;colii &#537;i nimic mai mult din punct de vedere educa&#539;ional. &#206;ns&#259;, aceste sesiuni de &#8221;coaching&#8221; au &#238;nceput &#537;i au continuat o vreme bun&#259;, f&#259;r&#259; ca noi, p&#259;rin&#539;ii, s&#259; intervenim, pentru c&#259; am &#238;ncercat s&#259; evit&#259;m conflictele cu Ruxandra Baciu, pe c&#226;t de mult posibil.</p><p>Dac&#259; oricine avea vreo &#238;ntrebare legat&#259; de corectitudinea acestor sesiuni (lipsa de acredit&#259;ri, etc.), r&#259;spunsul primit era c&#259; psihologul &#537;colii, d-na. Cristina Ungvari participa la aceste &#537;edin&#539;e, &#8221;a&#537;a c&#259; e ok&#8221;. &#206;ns&#259; Cristina Ungvari nu participa la toate sesiunile. <br><br><em>D-na. Cristina Ungvari este psiholog practicant &#238;n supervizare &#537;i psihoterapeut practicant &#238;n supervizare. Observa&#539;iile mele privesc <strong>impunerea terapiei</strong> &#537;i <strong>cererea de rapoarte c&#259;tre &#537;coal&#259;</strong>, nu calificarea profesional&#259; a terapeutului. <br><br>&#8221;Psihologul practicant &#238;n supervizare&#8221;</em> <strong>are drept de liber&#259; practic&#259;</strong>, dar <strong>sub supervizare</strong>; nu este acela&#537;i lucru cu nivelul <em>&#8222;autonom&#8221;/&#8222;independent&#8221;</em>. </p><blockquote><p><em><strong>Partea asta cu &#8221;ne juc&#259;m de-a psihologii &#537;i terapeu&#539;ii, f&#259;r&#259; acreditare&#8221;, este  un element recurent al acestei pove&#537;ti &#537;i al &#238;ntregului mers al &#537;colii, dup&#259; cum ve&#539;i vedea &#238;n continuare.</strong></em></p></blockquote><p>Un alt r&#259;spuns primit, de la Anca Rusu, actuala directoare a &#537;colii a fost c&#259; &#8221;la c&#226;te sesiuni de terapie a f&#259;cut Ruxandra&#8230; se pricepe&#8221;. Deci dac&#259; ai fost tu la psiholog, devii automat un bun psiholog. Dup&#259; acest principiu, dac&#259; ai dat de multe ori foc la p&#259;dure, probabil e&#537;ti un bun pompier.</p><blockquote><p><em><strong>Cum poate fi acesta ra&#539;ionamentul dup&#259; care o institu&#539;ie de &#238;nv&#259;&#539;&#259;m&#226;nt din Rom&#226;nia modeleaz&#259; creierele copiilor??</strong></em></p></blockquote><p>&#536;i tocmai acesta este s&#226;mburele problemei: te autointitulezi &#8221;coach&#8221; &#537;i <strong>modelezi creierele </strong>unor copii, dup&#259; propriul t&#259;u plac, f&#259;r&#259; acreditare &#537;i f&#259;r&#259; ca cineva s&#259; te poat&#259; opri.</p><h3>Ideologia &#8221;wokeness&#8221; predat&#259; la Transylvania College</h3><p>Problema cea mai dureroas&#259; este de fapt legat&#259; de principiile, direc&#539;iile &#537;i ideologia pe care R.B. le are &#537;i care se reflect&#259; asupra acestei &#537;coli &#537;i implicit a copiilor no&#537;tri. Vorbesc &#238;n mod special de ideologia<a href="https://paulgraham.com/woke.html"> </a><strong><a href="https://paulgraham.com/woke.html">wokeness</a></strong>, o form&#259; mai agresiv&#259; a valului de &#8221;political correctness&#8221; reg&#259;sit &#238;n Statele Unite. Un exemplu simplu, pe rom&#226;ne&#537;te: nimeni nu are voie s&#259;-&#539;i zic&#259; nimic, pentru c&#259; orice mic&#259; situa&#539;ie negativ&#259; sau conflict este interpretat&#259; ca &#8221;bullying&#8221;. Aici m&#259; refer inclusiv la situa&#539;ii de genul: <em>n-ai fost de acord cu ce am zis &#537;i am v&#259;zut c&#259; &#539;i-ai dat ochii peste cap = bullying </em>sau <em>ironia/sarcasmul = bullying</em>. Practic, la cum v&#259;d eu lucrurile, orice faci poate fi interpretat ca bullying.</p><p>P&#259;rerea mea este c&#259; aceast&#259; ideologie ne face copiii susceptibili la abuzuri, mai slabi &#537;i mai predispu&#537;i la probleme psihologice pe termen lung, &#238;n compara&#539;ie cu &#8221;modelul clasic&#8221;.</p><p>Iar dac&#259; asta &#238;&#537;i dore&#537;te R.B. s&#259; fie direc&#539;ia Transylvania College, &#238;ncepi s&#259;-&#539;i pui probleme legate de &#8221;sesiunile de coaching&#8221;, ce &#238;nseamn&#259; ele pentru copilul meu &#537;i ce &#238;nva&#539;&#259; el din asta&#8230;</p><blockquote><p><em><strong>Dar nu am zis nimic. Pentru c&#259; n-am vrut s&#259; &#8221;ne punem r&#259;u cu R.B&#8221;. La fel ca, probabil, mul&#539;i din cei care citi&#539;i aceste r&#226;nduri.</strong></em></p></blockquote><p>At&#226;t c&#259; lucrurile nu s-au oprit aici. Acesta a fost doar &#238;nceputul.</p><p></p><h2>Suspendarea lui Sebastian din &#537;coal&#259;</h2><p>&#206;n data de 16 mai 2025, vineri ora 16:00, primim e-mailul de mai jos de la Transylvania College:</p><blockquote><p><em>&#8221;Stimate d-le. &#537;i d-na. Biris,</em></p><p><em>Din p&#259;cate, Sebastian va fi suspendat de la &#537;coal&#259; timp de 3 zile s&#259;pt&#259;m&#226;na viitoare, &#238;ncep&#226;nd de luni, 19 mai 2025.</em></p><p><em>Detaliile suspend&#259;rilor sunt disponibile &#238;n scrisoarea ata&#537;at&#259;.</em></p><p><em>Dac&#259; dori&#539;i s&#259; discuta&#539;i despre perioada suspend&#259;rii sau despre orice condi&#539;ii impuse, v&#259; rug&#259;m s&#259; contacta&#539;i &#8230;&#8221;</em></p></blockquote><p><strong>Scrisoarea ata&#537;at&#259;: <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_Pk6BbqC6SuTklQoq1DE59Su1BTbDvya/view?usp=drive_link">Internal Suspension letter (PDF)</a>.</strong></p><p>&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;</p><p>Adic&#259;, &#238;n ultima zi din s&#259;pt&#259;m&#226;n&#259;, vineri la ora 4 dup&#259;-masa, &#238;mi zici c&#259; de luni Sebastian e suspendat 3 zile din &#537;coal&#259;.</p><p>&#206;n document se invoc&#259; faptul c&#259; &#238;n conformitate cu Behavior Policy-ul &#537;colii &#537;i dup&#259; &#8222;mai multe m&#259;suri restaurative anterioare&#8221;, Sebastian a fost suspendat. &#206;ns&#259; pentru noi era prima dat&#259; c&#226;nd auzeam de a&#537;a ceva. De&#537;i scria altfel &#238;n document, pentru noi n-a existat nici un fel de preaviz.</p><p>Mai mult dec&#226;t at&#226;t, cu dou&#259; zile &#238;nainte am avut &#238;nt&#226;lnire cu directoarea de atunci a &#537;colii, d-na. Vancea, ca s&#259; vorbim despre viitorul lui Sebastian, care urma s&#259; continue la liceu. Am vorbit despre ce materii s&#259; &#238;&#537;i aleag&#259; pentru liceu, &#537;.a.m.d. D-na Vancea a avut doar cuvinte de laud&#259; la adresa lui Sebastian, deci n-am avut niciun motiv de &#238;ngrijorare. Mai mult, &#238;ndrum&#259;toarea lui de an, d-na. Lidia Paun nu &#537;tia nimic despre acest&#259; suspendare, a aflat &#537;i ea tot vineri, deodat&#259; cu noi.</p><p>A&#537;a c&#259; dup&#259; mailul de suspendare, am refuzat s&#259; fim de acord cu ce scria &#238;n acea scrisoare &#537;i am cerut o &#238;nt&#226;lnire la &#537;coal&#259;. Trebuia s&#259; fie o gre&#537;eal&#259;. Dar am scris mailuri degeaba, pentru c&#259; era vineri dup&#259;-masa, cine s&#259; mai r&#259;spund&#259;?!</p><p>A&#537;a c&#259;, luni la prima or&#259; am mers la &#537;coal&#259; s&#259; &#238;ncerc&#259;m s&#259; ob&#539;inem o &#238;nt&#226;lnire. Cu oricine am discutat, toate drumurile duceau la Ruxandra Baciu. De la ea venise &#8221;servit&#259;&#8221; suspendarea. Pentru c&#259;, aparent, ea era cea mai &#238;n m&#259;sur&#259; s&#259; &#537;tie ce e bine pentru copii. &#536;tia cine e cuminte, cine e r&#259;u, c&#259; doar f&#259;cea &#8221;coaching&#8221; cu ei.</p><p>Am &#238;ncercat s&#259; ob&#539;inem o &#238;nt&#226;lnire cu R.B., dar f&#259;r&#259; succes. &#206;ntr-un final, din pur&#259; &#238;nt&#226;mplare, am &#238;nt&#226;lnit-o pe holul &#537;colii &#537;i am reu&#537;it s&#259; ob&#539;inem o &#238;nt&#226;lnire cu ea ziua urm&#259;toare, mar&#539;i.</p><p>I-am zis c&#259; trebuie s&#259; fie o gre&#537;eal&#259; &#537;i c&#259; l-am adus pe Sebastian la &#537;coal&#259;, p&#226;n&#259; se clarific&#259; lucrurile. A spus c&#259; nu, suspendarea st&#259; &#238;n picioare. Sebastian nu are voie la &#537;coal&#259;. S&#259; venim a doua zi, cu Sebastian &#537;i<strong> &#8221;o s&#259; vedem atunci ce copil avem&#8221; . &#8221;S&#259; nu credem nimic din ce ne zice b&#259;iatul, c&#259; ne minte!&#8221; </strong>(!!!)</p><p>Bine&#238;n&#539;eles c&#259; dup&#259; asemenea caracterizare am &#238;nceput s&#259; ne facem griji, am vorbit cu b&#259;iatul s&#259; vedem unde poate fi problema. Sebastian zicea c&#259; nu &#537;tie ce a f&#259;cut &#537;i ce poate fi at&#226;t de grav &#238;nc&#226;t s&#259; fie suspendat. Oric&#226;t am vorbit, am ajuns la acela&#537;i rezultat. Nimic nu p&#259;rea s&#259; fie at&#226;t de grav &#238;nc&#226;t s&#259; necesite o suspendare, mai ales direct&#259;.</p><p>Dup&#259; discu&#539;ia cu Sebastian, am &#238;nceput s&#259; fim tot mai consterna&#539;i de felul &#238;n care ne-a fost pus&#259; problema de c&#259;tre &#537;coal&#259;: f&#259;r&#259; vreo &#238;n&#537;tiin&#539;are prealabil&#259;, un mail, o aten&#539;ionare, ceva. Nimic. Suspendare din prima &#537;i gata.</p><p>A&#537;a c&#259; am &#238;nceput s&#259; citim mai multe despre politica &#537;colii (<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pKN5dWEj5DP_SQnitlH3PhXKO9TRF16Y/view?usp=drive_link">Behavior Policy</a>) &#537;i despre ce &#238;nseamn&#259; bullying-ul, pentru c&#259; despre asta p&#259;rea s&#259; fie vorba.</p><p>Conform propriei politici Transylvania College, &#537;coala poate suspenda un elev pentru 3 zile, doar dup&#259; ce a aplicat un proces restaurativ (de care men&#539;ionaser&#259; &#238;n mail), format din 3 nivele (o scar&#259; prin care se escaladeaz&#259; orice situa&#539;ie):</p><ul><li><p><strong>Nivelul 1: &#206;nt&#226;lnire restaurativ&#259;<br></strong>O &#238;nt&#226;lnire facilitat&#259; pentru a repara prejudiciul &#537;i a reconstrui &#238;ncrederea &#238;ntre cei implica&#539;i.</p></li><li><p><strong>Nivelul 2: Interven&#539;ie de grup<br></strong>Sesiuni de grup concentrate, urm&#259;rirea schimb&#259;rilor de comportament. Se atribuie serviciu comunitar celor care au agresat sau au fost martori t&#259;cu&#539;i.</p></li><li><p><strong>Nivelul 3: Suspendare de 3 zile + Terapie familial&#259;<br></strong>O suspendare de trei zile plus &#238;nceperea obligatorie a terapiei individuale sau familiale. Ambii p&#259;rin&#539;i/tutori implica&#539;i &#238;n via&#539;a copilului trebuie s&#259; participe.</p></li></ul><blockquote><p><em><strong>Noi eram la nivelul 3, f&#259;r&#259; s&#259; fi trecut prin primele dou&#259;. Nu aveam niciun mail, un proces verbal, nimic. Doar l-au suspendat &#537;i gata.</strong></em></p></blockquote><p>Inclusiv la nivel de legisla&#539;ie na&#539;ional&#259; exist&#259; o scar&#259; similar&#259;, prin care cel pu&#539;in notifici p&#259;rintele c&#259; exist&#259; o problem&#259;. Nu suspenzi un copil din prima. Dar se pare c&#259; Transylvania College are &#539;ara proprie, nu se ghideaz&#259; dup&#259; legisla&#539;ia din Rom&#226;nia.</p><div><hr></div><blockquote><p><strong>Cadru legal, pe scurt</strong></p><p>&#8226; <strong>Legea 221/2019</strong> (modific&#259; Legea educa&#539;iei 1/2011): interzice explicit <strong>bullying-ul</strong> &#537;i oblig&#259; &#537;colile s&#259; aib&#259; proceduri clare de interven&#539;ie.</p><p>&#8226; <strong>Ordinul 4343/2020</strong> (norme anti-bullying): prevede <strong>investiga&#539;ie documentat&#259; &#238;n max. 48h</strong>, <strong>informarea p&#259;rin&#539;ilor</strong> &#537;i aplicarea <strong>m&#259;surilor progresive</strong> (restaurative &#8594; consecin&#539;e) &#8211; nu sanc&#539;iune direct&#259; &#8220;din prima&#8221;.</p><p>&#8226; <strong>Politica &#537;colii</strong> replic&#259; aceea&#537;i scar&#259; (Nivel 1 &#8594; Nivel 2 &#8594; Nivel 3).</p><p><em>Texte integrale:</em> <a href="https://legislatie.just.ro/Public/DetaliiDocumentAfis/219895">Legea 221/2019</a> &#183; <a href="https://legislatie.just.ro/Public/DetaliiDocument/226679">OM 4343/2020</a></p></blockquote><div><hr></div><p>Urma &#238;nt&#226;lnirea cu R.B. &#537;i deja ne sim&#539;eam nedrept&#259;&#539;i&#539;i, dar speram c&#259; putem rezolva ceva. Nu era mare lucru s&#259; fie suspendat b&#259;iatul, dar de ce s&#259; existe asta la dosarul lui dac&#259; nu era cazul? &#206;n plus, dac&#259; mai f&#259;cea o gre&#537;eal&#259;, era deja eligibil de &#238;nc&#259; o suspendare sau chiar de exmatriculare&#8230;</p><p></p><h2>&#206;nt&#226;lnirea cu Ruxandra Baciu</h2><p>Ziua urm&#259;toare, ne-am &#238;nt&#226;lnit cu R.B., care a cerut ca &#238;nt&#226;lnirea s&#259; fie &#238;n prim&#259; faz&#259; cu Sebastian, &#238;n care s&#259; aib&#259; ei doi o discu&#539;ie de fa&#539;&#259; cu noi, dar f&#259;r&#259; ca noi s&#259; intervenim. &#206;n faza a doua, urma s&#259; tragem concluziile, doar noi, adul&#539;ii.</p><p>Prima parte a &#238;nt&#226;lnirii a fost pentru mine un &#537;oc. R.B. a scos o list&#259; cu tot ce poate &#238;nsemna bullying-ul, &#238;ncep&#226;nd de la bullying-ul a&#537;a cum &#238;l cunoa&#537;tem, cu violen&#539;&#259;, etc. dar lista era mult mai lung&#259;, includea sarcasm, ironie sau datul ochilor peste cap c&#226;nd vorbim de bullying. &#536;i a &#238;nceput s&#259; &#238;l treac&#259; pe Sebastian printr-un checklist cu ce &#238;&#537;i amintea el c&#259; a f&#259;cut&#8230; vreodat&#259;. L-a &#238;ntrebat pe Sebi de ce crede c&#259; e aici.</p><p>Sebi a r&#259;spuns c&#259; cel mai probabil pt. c&#259; a r&#226;s &#238;n orele ei de coaching.</p><blockquote><p>RB: &#8221;Nu, nu de asta e&#537;ti aici&#8221;<br>Apoi a luat lista la r&#226;nd&#8230; &#537;i dup&#259; multe checkpoint-uri &#238;n care l-a tot presat pe Sebi s&#259; &#238;&#537;i aminteasc&#259; ce a f&#259;cut &#238;n trecut&#8230; <br>RB: &#8221;A&#537;a-i c&#259; ai trecut pe clasa a 7-a pe hol &#537;i ai zis de ni&#537;te fete c&#259; sunt curve?&#8221;<br>S: &#8221;Nu le-am f&#259;cut niciodat&#259; a&#537;a pe fete, nu-mi amintesc&#8221;<br>RB: &#8221;Nu-&#539;i aminte&#537;ti. Sentimentele &#238;&#539;i blocheaz&#259; memoria c&#226;nd sunt intense&#8230;&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>Copilul bine&#238;n&#539;eles c&#259; nu-&#537;i amintea chiar tot ce a f&#259;cut &#537;i n-a f&#259;cut &#238;n ultimii ani de &#537;coal&#259;. Cine &#537;tie, poate o fi f&#259;cut ni&#537;te fete &#8221;bitches&#8221;, pe ceva chat, c&#226;ndva. Dar sigur n-a folosit niciodat&#259; &#8221;curv&#259;&#8221;, pe vreun hol, &#238;n public. Imi cunosc b&#259;iatul. &#536;i oricine &#238;l cunoa&#537;te pe Sebi &#537;tie c&#259; nu e un bully.</p><p>Modul manipulator de a pune &#238;ntreb&#259;rile &#537;i de a ob&#539;ine o &#8221;confesiune&#8221; cu tot ce a f&#259;cut &#537;i n-a f&#259;cut copilul &#238;n &#537;coal&#259; vreodat&#259;, ca s&#259; demonstreze c&#259; e un bully, mi-a f&#259;cut grea&#539;&#259;.</p><p>Ca p&#259;rinte, ca tat&#259;, cu greu m-am ab&#539;inut s&#259; nu fac scandal. Am a&#537;teptat s&#259; se termine sesiunea de &#238;ntreb&#259;ri manipulatoare, iar apoi a urmat discu&#539;ia noastr&#259;.</p><p>Am &#238;ncercat s&#259; o confrunt, s&#259; &#238;i zic c&#259; nu &#537;i-au respectat propriul Behaviour Policy&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;prin care trebuia s&#259; &#537;tim mai de mult dac&#259; exista cu adev&#259;rat o problem&#259;. Am &#238;ncercat s&#259; definim bullying-ul a&#537;a cum e el definit &#238;n lege, nu dup&#259; o list&#259; din care reiese c&#259; orice &#238;nseamn&#259; bullying. Am &#238;ncercat multe, dar f&#259;r&#259; succes.</p><p><strong>A spus c&#259; &#8221;oricum se ajungea la suspendare&#8221; (!!!).</strong></p><p>Adic&#259; suspendarea era un fapt predeterminat.</p><p>Practic, ne luptam cu morile de v&#226;nt.</p><blockquote><p><em>Singurul lucru pe care l-am mai putut face atunci a fost s&#259; &#238;i zic c&#259; <strong>exist&#259; un singur bully &#238;n aceast&#259; conversa&#539;ie: ea &#238;ns&#259;&#537;i</strong>. </em><strong>Comportamentul ei din acea &#238;nt&#226;lnire a fost, &#238;n opinia mea, intimidant &#537;i abuziv</strong>.</p></blockquote><p>I-am spus c&#259; cred c&#259; <strong>&#238;ncearc&#259; s&#259; ne alunge din &#537;coal&#259;</strong>, de&#537;i nu &#238;n&#539;eleg de ce. &#536;i c&#259; ea poate s&#259; abuzeze de p&#259;rin&#539;i, pentru c&#259; nu prea exist&#259; alternative.</p><p>&#536;i i-am spus c&#259; aplic&#259; <strong>standarde duble</strong>. Pentru c&#259; a existat un episod &#238;n trecut &#238;n care colegul lui Sebastian, l-a &#238;mpins pe Sebi &#238;n pauz&#259;, iar Sebi a c&#259;zut &#537;i &#537;i-a rupt m&#226;na. Am stat cu Sebi pe la Urgen&#539;e, cu anestezie total&#259; s&#259; &#238;i pun&#259; m&#226;na la loc. &#536;i-a pierdut locul &#238;n echipa de baschet. A pierdut vacan&#539;a de ski.</p><p><strong>Acel b&#259;iat nu a fost suspendat</strong>. Poate pentru c&#259; e fiul patroanei firmei care s-a ocupat de amenajarea interioar&#259; a &#537;colii. Poate.</p><p>&#206;ntr-un cuv&#226;nt, i-am spus c&#259; noi consider&#259;m c&#259; ne supune unui abuz, doar pentru c&#259; poate.</p><blockquote><p><em><strong>Dup&#259; &#238;nt&#226;lnire, de&#537;i &#537;tiam c&#259; nu rezolv&#259;m mare lucru, am decis s&#259; trimitem o notificare &#537;colii, prin care ne-am exprimat nemul&#539;umirea &#537;i am reiterat faptul c&#259; acest proces a fost unul nedrept. C&#259; ne-am pierdut &#238;ncrederea &#238;n &#537;coala care nu &#238;&#537;i respecta propriile reguli &#537;i recurgea la abuzuri.</strong></em></p></blockquote><p><strong><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E_SqkQfRv39WG-XV7N4X34NimZcLPduo/view?usp=sharing">Notificarea poate fi v&#259;zut&#259; aici</a>. </strong>Are num&#259;r de &#238;nregistrare &#238;n arhiva &#537;colii.</p><p>Nu am primit niciodat&#259; r&#259;spuns la acea notificare.</p><p>Dup&#259; suspendare, am crezut c&#259; totul se va termina. Am crezut c&#259; R.B. va fi mul&#539;umit&#259; c&#259; &#537;i-a ar&#259;tat for&#539;a, &#537;i-a m&#226;ng&#226;iat orgoliul &#537;i gata. Se va opri aici. Dar nu, avea s&#259; fie doar primul pas. A urmat pasul 2.</p><p></p><h2>Actul adi&#539;ional. Condi&#539;iona&#539;i s&#259; semn&#259;m un act adi&#539;ional discriminatoriu, imposibil de semnat, ca s&#259; putem continua &#238;n &#537;coal&#259;</h2><p>O lun&#259; mai t&#226;rziu, pe 25 iunie, noi, &#238;mpreun&#259; cu alte 11 familii (din c&#226;te &#537;tiu, dar poate sunt mai multe), am primit prin email un act adi&#539;ional pe care trebuia s&#259; &#238;l semn&#259;m, ca Sebastian s&#259; mai poat&#259; continua &#537;coala la Transylvania College.</p><blockquote><p>&#8221;Sper c&#259; mesajul meu v&#259; g&#259;se&#537;te cu bine. &#206;n urma perioadei de suspendare s-a preg&#259;tit un act adi&#539;ional, care stipuleaz&#259; a&#537;tept&#259;rile cu privire la comportament &#537;i cerin&#539;ele de terapie.</p><p>V&#259; rog s&#259; g&#259;si&#539;i ata&#537;at documentul, acesta va fi nevoie s&#259; fie semnat de c&#259;tre voi &#537;i returnat la &#238;nceputul anului &#537;colar. Vom completa noi informa&#539;iile cu privire la num&#259;rul contractului.</p><p>Pentru cerin&#539;ele legate de terapie este nevoie s&#259; fi&#539;i &#238;n contact cu Cristina Ungvari, Head of Wellbeing, in cc.</p><p>Sper ca Sebi &#537;i Catia s&#259; aib&#259; o vacan&#539;&#259; frumoas&#259; &#537;i s&#259; ne revedem cu bine &#238;n noul an &#537;colar.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p><strong><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Rse6NVVAmSYZ5XgK2YXrfWGnHqQfEC-F/view?usp=drive_link">Actul adi&#539;ional poate fi v&#259;zut aici</a></strong>.</p><p>Nu trebuie s&#259; fii avocat sau vreun expert juridic ca s&#259; &#238;&#539;i dai seama c&#259; acel act este un document imposibil de acceptat, cu clauze dispropor&#539;ionate.</p><ul><li><p>Un document discriminatoriu, pentru c&#259; nu to&#539;i p&#259;rin&#539;ii din &#537;coal&#259; l-au primit, ci doar &#8221;suspenda&#539;ii&#8221;.</p></li><li><p>Un document prin care ni se cere <strong>s&#259; urm&#259;m terapie familial&#259; timp de minimum 2 ani (</strong>!!!!), plus s&#259; trimitem actualiz&#259;ri ale stadiului terapiei&#8230;</p></li><li><p>Plus:<em> &#8221;Dac&#259; elevul se angajeaz&#259; &#238;n orice alte comportamente antisociale de tip bullying, acest lucru va duce la o suspendare imediat&#259;, ca parte a suportului comportamental continuu &#537;i a consecin&#539;elor deja puse &#238;n aplicare. Incidentele continue pot duce la o suspendare extins&#259;.&#8221;</em></p></li></ul><p>Av&#226;nd &#238;n vedere c&#259; ORICE poate fi considerat bullying, ce pot s&#259; mai zic de ultima clauz&#259;?</p><blockquote><p><em><strong>Adic&#259; eu &#537;i familia s&#259; semn&#259;m c&#259; suntem de acord c&#259; avem o problem&#259; &#537;i c&#259; avem nevoie de terapie min. 2 ani?! Ca s&#259; mai putem continua &#238;n &#537;coal&#259;? Pe bune?!</strong></em></p></blockquote><p>Deci clar, ceva de nesemnat. Niciun om &#238;ntreg la minte n-ar semna a&#537;a ceva. </p><p>Ca o not&#259;: nu am nicio problem&#259; cu a urma terapie. &#536;i probabil a&#537; fi fost dispus s&#259; urmez un astfel de proces, dac&#259; existau <strong>dovezi c&#259; exist&#259; o problem&#259; real&#259;</strong>. Dar nu ne-a fost prezentat nimic, niciodat&#259;. Doar p&#259;reri personale, vorbe &#537;i concluzii subiective ale R.B., pe baza c&#259;rora Sebastian a fost suspendat.</p><p>Binein&#539;eles c&#259; nu am semnat acest act. Au urmat mailuri dup&#259; mailuri &#238;n care am refuzat s&#259; semn&#259;m &#537;i am cerut &#238;n scris confirmarea c&#259; nu e nevoie s&#259; semn&#259;m acest act adi&#539;ional pentru ca Sebastian s&#259; poat&#259; continua &#238;n &#537;coal&#259;.</p><p>Singurele r&#259;spunsuri pe care le-am primit de la Anca Rusu &#537;i Cristina Ungvari, cele dou&#259; asistente ale R.B., au fost c&#259; nu putem continua &#238;n &#537;coal&#259; f&#259;r&#259; semnarea acelui act.</p><p>Apoi, &#238;ntr-un final, am primit un mesaj &#238;n care se reitereaz&#259; faptul c&#259; avem nevoie de terapie &#537;i ne este recomandat cabinetul unei doamne, care mai apoi am aflat c&#259; <strong>nici d&#226;nsa nu e psiholog licen&#539;iat (!!!)</strong>. Nu c&#259; am fi mers mai departe cu terapia, dar dac&#259; tot ne juc&#259;m de-a wellbeing-ul, m&#259; a&#537;teptam totu&#537;i la un minim efort din partea acestor persoane &#8221;profesioniste&#8221; de la Transylvania College. </p><p>Apoi, &#238;n mijlocul acestui schimb de mailuri, a urmat ceva extrem de interesant:</p><p></p><h2>Primul c&#226;&#537;tig &#238;n instan&#539;&#259; &#238;mpotriva abuzurilor contractuale ale Transylvania College &#537;i Ruxandra Baciu. Precedent unic &#238;n Cluj-Napoca</h2><p>&#206;ntre timp, una din familii, prieteni cu noi, s-au mi&#537;cat repede &#537;i au dat Transylvania College &#238;n judecat&#259;, pentru rezilierea abuziv&#259;, unilateral&#259;, a contractul de &#537;colarizare al b&#259;iatului lor. Adic&#259;, exact ce urma s&#259; ni se &#238;nt&#226;mple &#537;i nou&#259;.</p><p>Partea cea mai tare? AU C&#194;&#536;TIGAT! Au ob&#539;inut reintegrarea b&#259;iatului &#238;n &#537;coal&#259;, &#238;n sistem de urgen&#539;&#259;, &#238;n timp record.</p><p>Din c&#226;te &#537;tiu, este al doilea caz din Rom&#226;nia &#537;i primul din Cluj-Napoca. Un precedent extrem de valoros &#238;mpotriva abuzurilor Transylvania College &#537;i Ruxandra Baciu.</p><p><strong>Da, o hot&#259;r&#226;re judec&#259;toreasc&#259; a dispus reintegrarea elevului &#238;n regim de urgen&#539;&#259;; &#238;n opinia mea, confirm&#259; abuzurile contractuale</strong>.</p><p></p><h2>Am ales s&#259; reziliem contractele cu Transylvania College &#537;i s&#259; mut&#259;m copiii la alt&#259; &#537;coal&#259;</h2><p>Am ajuns &#238;n 1 septembrie 2025. Toat&#259; tevatura asta &#238;ncepuse &#238;n 16 mai. Acum 3 luni jum&#259;tate.</p><p>La Transylvania College, noul an &#537;colar &#238;ncepe azi, pe 2 septembrie.</p><p>R&#259;spunsurile celor de la Transylvania College au &#238;ncetat s&#259; mai vin&#259;. Singurul mesaj cu care au mai venit a fost o propunere de &#238;nt&#226;lnire fa&#539;&#259; &#238;n fa&#539;&#259;. N-au vrut s&#259; r&#259;spund&#259; &#238;n scris, concret, c&#259; renun&#539;&#259; la semnarea actului adi&#539;ional:</p><blockquote><p>&#8221;Credem c&#259; o conversa&#539;ie fa&#539;&#259; &#238;n fa&#539;&#259;, a&#537;ezat&#259; &#537;i deschis&#259;, poate contribui la g&#259;sirea unui cadru comun care s&#259; sus&#539;in&#259; dezvoltarea lui Sebastian &#238;ntr-un mod s&#259;n&#259;tos &#537;i responsabil, <strong>&#238;n acord cu valorile &#537;colii &#537;i cu nevoile sale reale.</strong>&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>Pentru c&#259;, nu-i a&#537;a, scoala &#537;tie nevoile REALE ale copilului, nu p&#259;rin&#539;ii.</p><p>Cred c&#259; deja i&#537;i d&#259;duser&#259; seama c&#259; s-au pus &#238;ntr-un punct din care nu mai puteau c&#226;&#537;tiga, av&#226;nd &#238;n vedere precedentul creat &#238;n instan&#539;&#259;, unde au pierdut ru&#537;inos.</p><p>Probabil s-au g&#226;ndit c&#259; o s&#259; ne for&#539;eze s&#259; semn&#259;m acel act adi&#539;ional c&#226;nd mergem la &#537;coal&#259;, &#238;ntr-o discu&#539;ie verbal&#259;, pentru c&#259; urma s&#259; &#238;nceap&#259; &#537;coala &#537;i nu prea mai aveam de ales. Timpul curgea &#238;n favoarea lor.</p><blockquote><p><em><strong>Era clar c&#259; nu mai aveam sor&#539;i de izb&#226;nd&#259; &#238;n acest demers, a&#537;a c&#259; am ales s&#259; reziliem noi contractele. Probabil c&#259; R.B. a ob&#539;inut ce &#537;i-a dorit. Am plecat din &#537;coal&#259;. Sper c&#259; e fericit&#259; acum.</strong></em></p></blockquote><p>Partea mai pu&#539;in vizibil&#259; a acestui demers a fost c&#226;t de mult au fost afecta&#539;i copiii. Au &#238;ntrebat tot timpul: &#8221;cu ce am gre&#537;it? de ce noi? de ce trebuie s&#259; schimb&#259;m &#537;coala&#8221;, etc. Fapt care m-a determinat &#537;i mai mult s&#259; scriu acest articol.</p><p></p><h2>De ce nu a zis nimeni nimic p&#226;n&#259; acum? P&#226;rghii, presiuni, cuno&#537;tin&#539;e &#537;i rela&#539;ii</h2><p>Poate v&#259; &#238;ntreba&#539;i, la fel cum m-am &#238;ntrebat &#537;i eu, de ce nu s-a auzit nimic de la al&#539;i p&#259;rin&#539;i p&#226;n&#259; acum? Pentru c&#259; &#537;tiu multiple cazuri, care nu au ie&#537;it p&#226;n&#259; acum la suprafa&#539;&#259;. Noi am fost 12 familii care am primit actul adi&#539;ional. C&#226;teva dintre ele am auzit c&#259; &#238;ncep ac&#539;iuni &#238;n instan&#539;&#259;. C&#226;te or mai fi fost &#238;n trecut...</p><p>R&#259;spunsul este unul complex. R.B. are multe p&#226;rghii pe care le folose&#537;te &#238;n a ob&#539;ine orice &#238;&#537;i dore&#537;te. Iar dac&#259; nu ob&#539;ine, se pare c&#259; prefer&#259; s&#259; for&#539;eze, preseze, h&#259;r&#539;uiasc&#259;, abuzeze, f&#259;r&#259; ca cineva s&#259; nu &#238;i fac&#259; ceva.</p><p>C&#226;teva motive pe care le v&#259;d eu, personal, pentru care &#238;i ies toate:</p><ul><li><p><strong>Nu exist&#259; un board independent de control &#238;n &#537;coal&#259;.</strong> R.B. poate face orice, f&#259;r&#259; s&#259; fie contestat&#259; de cineva. P&#259;rin&#539;ii s&#259;i, <strong>fondatorii adev&#259;ra&#539;i ai &#537;coli</strong>i erau la un moment dat parte din board, dar au decis s&#259; plece. &#536;i c&#226;nd zic &#8221;au decis s&#259; plece&#8221;, aici e loc de un articol de investiga&#539;ie unde las pe al&#539;ii mai profesioni&#537;ti s&#259;-&#537;i fac&#259; treaba.</p></li><li><p><strong>Presiune &#537;i p&#226;rghii asupra p&#259;rin&#539;ilor cu copii &#238;n &#537;coal&#259;. </strong>Odat&#259; ce ai &#238;nceput pe linia englez&#259; &#537;i curricula Cambridge/Edexcel (adic&#259; urmezi &#537;coala ca &#238;n Marea Britanie), e foarte greu s&#259; mu&#539;i copilul la o &#537;coal&#259;, mai ales pe linie rom&#226;n&#259;. Singura alternativ&#259; &#238;n Cluj este Royal School, o &#537;coal&#259; mai mic&#259;, cu o curricul&#259; similar&#259;, unde ne vom muta &#537;i noi copiii. Ca p&#259;rinte, c&#226;nd mai ai doar o singur&#259; alt&#259; op&#539;iune, nu ai de ales dec&#226;t s&#259; &#238;nghi&#539;i (aproape) orice. Mai faci o sponsorizare, mai o favoare, mai una-alta. Dar dac&#259; nu faci, sunt &#537;anse mari s&#259; ai probleme &#238;n viitor. &#206;n traducere: &#537;coala face abuz de pozi&#539;ie dominant&#259;. R.B. &#537;tie c&#259; n-ai de ales.</p></li><li><p><strong>P&#259;rin&#539;ii care pleac&#259;, nu mai au motive s&#259; &#238;&#537;i spun&#259; povestea. </strong>Odat&#259; trecu&#539;i prin calvar, p&#259;rin&#539;ii care pleac&#259; din Transylvania College nu mai au energie, timp, chef, bani s&#259; continue disputa sau s&#259; zic&#259; ceva. Vor s&#259;-&#537;i vad&#259; copiii muta&#539;i &#537;i ferici&#539;i &#238;n alt&#259; parte. R.B. se bazeaz&#259; pe asta.</p></li><li><p><strong>Profesorii &#537;i personalul din &#537;coal&#259;</strong> sunt mul&#539;i din ei &#238;n aceea&#537;i situa&#539;ie ca p&#259;rin&#539;ii, pentru c&#259; au &#537;i ei copii &#238;n &#537;coal&#259;. A&#537;a c&#259; nu au de ales. Tac &#537;i fac. Sunt doar executan&#539;i care semneaz&#259; &#537;i trimit mailuri abuzive cu z&#226;mbetul pe buze, la comanda R.B., &#238;nchiz&#226;nd ochii &#537;i crez&#226;nd c&#259; fac bine.</p></li><li><p><strong>P&#226;rghii asupra autorit&#259;&#539;ilor:</strong> Prim&#259;ria &#537;i Emil Boc probabil &#238;i fac pe plac R.B., din dou&#259; motive: 1. s&#259; ai o &#537;coal&#259; interna&#539;ional&#259; bun&#259; &#238;n ora&#537;, te ajut&#259; s&#259; atragi expa&#539;i &#537;i investitori interna&#539;ionali, &#537;i 2: dac&#259; aceast&#259; &#537;coal&#259; ar fi s&#259; se &#238;nchid&#259;, &#238;n Cluj ar exista imediat o problem&#259; social&#259; cu 1000 de copii r&#259;ma&#537;i f&#259;r&#259; acces la educa&#539;ie &#537;i familii f&#259;r&#259; op&#539;iuni. <strong>Adic&#259;, o mare p&#226;rghie de negociere &#537;i de ob&#539;inut ORICE de la autorit&#259;&#539;i. </strong>A&#537;a se ajunge la scandaluri de genul <a href="https://pressone.ro/un-oras-pentru-bogati-2-o-afacere-exclusivista-infiintata-pe-terenul-statului-sub-pretextul-utilitatii-publice">celor relatate de PressOne</a>. </p></li></ul><p>R.B. &#537;tie toate aceste lucruri. Se folose&#537;te de toate p&#226;rghiile &#537;i astfel se simte protejat&#259;. Sper totu&#537;i s&#259; existe coloan&#259; vertebral&#259; &#238;n cazul autorit&#259;&#539;ilor Rom&#226;ne, mai ales la nivel na&#539;ional, pentru c&#259; lucrurile nu pot r&#259;m&#226;ne a&#537;a la nesf&#226;r&#537;it. Tind s&#259; cred c&#259; nu mai suntem o &#539;ar&#259; &#238;n care ne putem juca de-a Dumnezeu.</p><p>Personal, am &#238;nceput s&#259; depun sesiz&#259;ri la <strong>Inspectoratul &#536;colar Jude&#539;ean Cluj</strong>, <strong>Ministerul Educa&#539;iei</strong>, <strong>Consiliul Na&#539;ional pentru Combaterea Discrimin&#259;rii (CNCD)</strong>, <strong>ANAF, Consiliul Concuren&#539;ei</strong>, precum &#537;i c&#259;tre organismele de acreditare <strong>Cambridge Assessment International Education</strong> &#537;i <strong>Pearson Edexcel.</strong></p><blockquote><p><em><strong>Consider c&#259; astfel de abuzuri nu mai pot fi b&#259;gate sub covor. Refuz s&#259; tac &#537;i s&#259; &#238;nghit. E timpul s&#259; se schimbe ceva.</strong></em></p></blockquote><p></p><h2>Concluzie</h2><blockquote><p><em><strong>Cred &#537;i sper ca Transylvania College s&#259; nu se &#238;nchid&#259; niciodat&#259;.</strong></em></p></blockquote><p>Dar de asemenea cred c&#259; aceast&#259; institu&#539;ie de &#238;nv&#259;&#539;&#259;m&#226;nt din Rom&#226;nia are datoria s&#259; func&#539;ioneze &#238;ntr-o form&#259; &#238;n care ofer&#259; respect, transparen&#539;&#259;, corectitudine fa&#539;&#259; de p&#259;rin&#539;i &#537;i copii, respectarea propriilor reguli &#537;i respectarea legilor &#539;&#259;rii.</p><blockquote><p><em><strong>Transylvania College are nevoie de o alt&#259; conducere. Una cu o atitudine complet diferit&#259;. De asemenea, cred c&#259; are nevoie de un board independent, care s&#259; aib&#259; inclusiv </strong></em><strong>dreptul de a-&#537;i concedia propriul fondator,</strong><em><strong> dac&#259; situa&#539;ia o cere. &#8221;Checks &amp; balances&#8221;, cum zic americanii, nu dictatoriat. Altfel, astfel de abuzuri din partea Transylvania College vor fi din ce &#238;n ce mai frecvente.</strong></em></p></blockquote><p>Nu public acest articol pentru a &#8221;c&#226;&#537;tiga pe internet&#8221;. Personal, nu mai am nimic de c&#226;&#537;tigat. Mi-am mutat copiii din Transylvania College &#537;i a&#537; avea destule alte lucruri pe cap, &#238;nc&#226;t s&#259; &#238;nchid ochii &#537;i s&#259; merg mai departe. Dar nu pot.</p><p><strong>Reputa&#539;ia</strong> &#537;i <strong>&#238;ncrederea</strong> se construiesc &#238;n ani &#537;i se pot pierde &#238;ntr-o zi. Orice &#537;coal&#259;, cu at&#226;t mai mult una privat&#259;, ar trebui s&#259; &#238;n&#539;eleag&#259; asta. C&#226;nd ceri p&#259;rin&#539;ilor &#238;ncredere, <strong>respect&#259;-&#539;i propriile reguli</strong>. Toate. De fiecare dat&#259;.</p><p>Dac&#259; trece&#539;i printr-o situa&#539;ie similar&#259;, sper ca r&#226;ndurile astea s&#259; v&#259; economiseasc&#259; timp, bani &#537;i nervi. &#536;i, poate, s&#259; ridice standardul pentru toate institu&#539;iile de &#238;nv&#226;&#539;&#259;m&#226;nt privat din Rom&#226;nia.</p><p><strong>Dac&#259; a&#539;i trecut prin situa&#539;ii similare cu Transylvania College, v&#259; &#238;ncurajez s&#259; l&#259;sa&#539;i un comentariu mai jos.</strong></p><p>Transylvania College, ne vedem &#238;n instan&#539;&#259;.</p><p>Sergiu Biri&#537;</p><p>&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;</p><p><strong>PS 1:</strong> ca sa contracareze aceast&#259; poveste, ma a&#537;tept ca R.B. sa vorbeasc&#259; ur&#226;t despre Sebastian, &#537;i despre noi ca familie. Probabil va spune c&#259; a fost un copil problem&#259;, c&#259; eu sunt un tat&#259; frustrat, etc. M&#259; a&#537;tept la asta, pentru c&#259; a f&#259;cut-o &#238;n trecut, cu al&#539;i copii &#537;i p&#259;rin&#539;i, cre&#226;nd chiar documente depuse &#238;n instan&#539;&#259; cu caracteriz&#259;ri negative ale unor copii care de fapt erau foarte buni.</p><p><strong>PS 2:</strong> ca s&#259; vezi unde te duce via&#539;a, &#238;n 2015, am donat o sum&#259; de bani la fondarea &#537;colii Royal School, cea la care ne vom muta copiii acum. Am f&#259;cut-o atunci tocmai pentru c&#259; am crezut c&#259; era nevoie de o alternativ&#259; &#238;n Cluj. Acest articol nu are nicio leg&#259;tur&#259; cu suma donat&#259; atunci. Nu am nicio calitate &#238;n acel proiect &#238;n afar&#259; de fost donator, altfel &#238;mi mutam &#238;ntre timp copiii &#238;n cei 10 ani care au trecut de atunci. Mai mult, asta nu face dec&#226;t s&#259; spun&#259; c&#226;t de mult&#259; &#238;ncredere am avut &#238;n Transylvania College&#8230;</p><p><strong>PS 3:</strong> <strong>Documentele &#537;i comunic&#259;rile</strong> noastre, aranjate <strong>cronologic</strong>, sunt disponibile, la cerere<br><br><strong>PS 4:</strong> <a href="https://youtu.be/Vi7tKcAEghc?si=bhL7dCL7Q8JtvTWa">Am vorbit &#238;n podcast despre acest subiect, aici</a></p><div class="captioned-button-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/transylvania-college-presiune-hartuire-abuz-institutional?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="CaptionedButtonToDOM"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Distribui&#539;i, ca aceast&#259; poveste s&#259; ajung&#259; la c&#226;t mai mul&#539;i p&#259;rin&#539;i:</p></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/transylvania-college-presiune-hartuire-abuz-institutional?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://blog.sergiubiris.ro/p/transylvania-college-presiune-hartuire-abuz-institutional?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Actualizare / Rectificare 03.09.2025 - 11:00 AM:</strong> &#206;ntr-o versiune anterioar&#259; am afirmat c&#259; d-na. Cristina Ungvari &#8222;nu este psiholog licen&#539;iat&#8221;. &#206;n urma unei noi verific&#259;ri &#238;n <strong>Registrul Unic al Psihologilor (R.U.P.)</strong>, la data de 03.09.2025, d-na. Cristina Ungv&#225;ri <strong>apare &#238;nscris</strong> ca <em>&#8222;psiholog practicant &#238;n supervizare&#8221;</em> &#537;i <em>&#8222;psihoterapeut practicant &#238;n supervizare&#8221;</em>. Am actualizat textul &#238;n consecin&#539;&#259;. Critica din articol vizeaz&#259; <strong>procedurile &#537;i condi&#539;ion&#259;rile impuse familiei</strong>, nu persoana sau calific&#259;rile sale. Dac&#259; apar informa&#539;ii factuale suplimentare, le voi reflecta prompt.</p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>