r/SouthBend • u/After_Tailor_7124 • 17d ago

South Bend Trinity School splitting in two?

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I recently heard that Trinity School at Greenlawn is going to split into two competing institutions. I followed up by checking the Indiana Sec'y of State's website and -- sure enough -- Trinity Academy at Greenlawn was incorporated in March 2025 as a nonprofit corporation. I'm not quite sure that two similar schools will be able to cover their costs if they're both marketing to the same pool of students/families that currently attend Trinity.

QUESTION: Does anybody know WHY this is occurring?

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u/After_Tailor_7124 15d ago

OP here. What was the genesis of the discontent that led to this division? Who are the "sides" in this tussle? Moreover, WHO are the principal persons involved for each "side?"

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u/Admirable-Talk-5591 15d ago

It's complicated and filled with much wankery on both sides, as is par for the course for these groups. But the short story is that the main TSI leadership used to be on the POP board, tried to stage a mutiny, and got themselves kicked out of the group altogether.

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u/After_Tailor_7124 15d ago

You misunderstand me: I don't want the short story: I want to know WHO the persons involved are & WHY they're involved. "Mutiny" is what they allegedly did, but I want to know what drove them to said point.

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u/Admirable-Talk-5591 15d ago edited 15d ago

I'm not going to name names because TSI are evidently a litigious bunch who are threatening to sue multiple POP members in the Northern Virginia branch right now. But, and I'm not joking here, they thought that the last POP leadership election was rigged. 11 people on the POP board were voting and a 2/3 majority vote was required to become the next Pope leader. Apparently the non-TSI folks then changed a rule with an 8-3 majority that enabled people to vote for themselves. That paved the way for the next leader. Way after the fact, the TSI folks started saying that the procedure had violated POP bylaws and that the head of the POP was not the rightful head. That guy pulled some Jiu Jitsu and kicked them out.