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Unfortunately, Concordia will not be returning for a second half of the first term.

We will be finishing early; this will be the last week of term. We are truly sorry for this and all students that paid for the second half will be refunded.

This is not the end of Concordia, we will look into returning in the summer on a smaller scale, and if we do so the students that had paid for the second half of the term (The students we will be refunding) will be able to attend Concordia for free for the whole of the second term. We are truly sorry we're canceling on such short notice.

Why? Honestly we started too big and at a bad time. Due to RL school a lot of people aren't on at the moment or able to commit and this means student participation is very low. Due to numbers of pre-registers we brought a whole sim thinking we were going to be having a lot more students than we had originally prepared for. We did have a lot of students but over the first few weeks we also had a lot of drop outs, party due to the awful drama that happened, and also partly due to RL and students realizing they couldn't attend classes.

We kept trying to encourage students to participate in events and get more involved, we even organized a hunt with prizes but unfortunately there was still no participation. And so for us, all the hard work and time and money was starting to be for nothing.

We've been paying the majority of land tier out of our own pockets since the beginning and we kept hoping it would pick up but it hasn't and it's no longer possible for us to financially support the school. We considered downsizing but due to student numbers and the amount of stress and work we just decided it was the best option to cancel the second half of the term.

I know this is awful for all those actively attending classes and you'll feel like you never finished and had a real 'ending'. For this we cannot apologize enough.

Again this is not the end. It's very likely we'll return for a second term on a much smaller scale. We know everything that went wrong this time and now we're more prepared and experienced to deal with it.

I cannot apologize enough to all the students and teachers affected by this. We will be refunding all the students that have paid so far for the second week, and this will take place this weekend. We will also look into sorting something out for the staff.

If anyone wants to rant or complain or wants a more detailed explanation please IM me inworld (Olivia.Rolendis) although I suggest sending me NC's not IMs as I'm insanely busy this week in RL and have barely be on and so when I do log in my IMs are capped.

Please understand I do feel awful about doing this and I've been trying to avoid it and do everything I can to avoid it for the past week. This may sound stupid but this is one of the hardest decisions I've ever had to make because I hate letting people down and I know this will be. I will try my best to make up for this in the future in anyway possible.

This isn't the end, it's just the premature ending of the beginning :)

Mrs Isabella Concordia
Dean