Look, if you send your kid to HKIS you are already paying serious money, we are talking well over HK$200,000 a year depending on the grade. So when the South China Morning Post reports that the American church group who co-founded the school got paid to end what a source called a "bad marriage" with HKIS, and walked away without saying what actually went wrong, that is not a small thing. That is the people running your kid's school settling a dispute in private and calling it done.

Here is what gets me. A "bad marriage" is doing a lot of work in that quote. Marriages end over money, over control, over someone doing something the other side did not like, and normally when two institutions split after decades together the parents get at least a paragraph of explanation. Instead we get a payment, a handshake, and a source telling a newspaper what nobody wanted to put in an official statement. If the split was clean, say so. If it was not, the parents paying that tuition bill deserve to know which one it was.