Hayfield Principal Moving to Gatehouse

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is absolutely NOT a promotion. Anyone who thinks this is a promotion is greatly misinformed.

It's not getting fired, which is what should have happened.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is absolutely NOT a promotion. Anyone who thinks this is a promotion is greatly misinformed.

Yeah, this is a demotion. I’m not saying he shouldn’t have been fired. But anyone who is saying this is a promotion is wrong.

Anyone can look up the job descriptions. The position he is taking is on the unified salary schedule C, grade 5. The highest step is 20 with a pay of $202K.

A secondary high school principal is on the school-based administrator scale. The highest step is 20 with a pay of $226K.

$202K after the job he did?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is absolutely NOT a promotion. Anyone who thinks this is a promotion is greatly misinformed.

Yeah, this is a demotion. I’m not saying he shouldn’t have been fired. But anyone who is saying this is a promotion is wrong.

Anyone can look up the job descriptions. The position he is taking is on the unified salary schedule C, grade 5. The highest step is 20 with a pay of $202K.

A secondary high school principal is on the school-based administrator scale. The highest step is 20 with a pay of $226K.

$202K after the job he did?

Can you please work on your reading comprehension skills? No one said he is making that. All you see is an apples to apples comparison of the job pay scale which indicates he has been demoted. The top of both pay scales is step 20.

No idea what step this guy is on. But I do know that at whatever step he is on, it will be at least $20K less than his principal job.

[Anonymous]

I think when people said he was being promoted they just meant he was being moved through the system. Whether he's making slightly more or less money is largely besides the point, when many feel he should have been fired.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:he should have been fired and have $0 salary

Gatehouse is the epitome of a bloated bureaucracy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:he should have been fired and have $0 salary

Gatehouse is the epitome of a bloated bureaucracy.

Where is DOGE when you really need them?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is absolutely NOT a promotion. Anyone who thinks this is a promotion is greatly misinformed.

Yeah, this is a demotion. I’m not saying he shouldn’t have been fired. But anyone who is saying this is a promotion is wrong.

Anyone can look up the job descriptions. The position he is taking is on the unified salary schedule C, grade 5. The highest step is 20 with a pay of $202K.

A secondary high school principal is on the school-based administrator scale. The highest step is 20 with a pay of $226K.

This was a promotion and pay raise. This is 2 years old but 2 years ago was at $171 (so at a minimum add in the 6% from this year and then whatever increase was year before): https://govsalaries.com/thompson-darin-a-177368986

Job description for Senior Administrator of Nontraditional School Programs is $132 to $201k with least experience being 6 years so he’d be at higher end: https://www.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=a1d52566a76042b2

Interim SA of Nontrad school was Deirdre Lavern who was a HS principal in 2019 at $172k back then: https://govsalaries.com/lavery-deirdre-m-108807952

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is absolutely NOT a promotion. Anyone who thinks this is a promotion is greatly misinformed.

Yeah, this is a demotion. I’m not saying he shouldn’t have been fired. But anyone who is saying this is a promotion is wrong.

Anyone can look up the job descriptions. The position he is taking is on the unified salary schedule C, grade 5. The highest step is 20 with a pay of $202K.

A secondary high school principal is on the school-based administrator scale. The highest step is 20 with a pay of $226K.

This was a promotion and pay raise. This is 2 years old but 2 years ago was at $171 (so at a minimum add in the 6% from this year and then whatever increase was year before): https://govsalaries.com/thompson-darin-a-177368986

Job description for Senior Administrator of Nontraditional School Programs is $132 to $201k with least experience being 6 years so he’d be at higher end: https://www.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=a1d52566a76042b2

Interim SA of Nontrad school was Deirdre Lavern who was a HS principal in 2019 at $172k back then: https://govsalaries.com/lavery-deirdre-m-108807952

Damn. The lack of basic research skills is astounding. So instead of just pulling random items, maybe actually look at the actual scales from FCPS. The position he is taking is called “Senior Administrator Non Traditional School Programs.” Its job code is 01215:

https://pf.payfactors.com/client/job-description-management/job-descriptions?jwt=eyJhbGciOiJIUzUxMiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJ0eXBlIjoxLCJjb250ZXh0Ijp7IkNvbXBhbnlJZCI6ODkwNiwiSnd0VHlwZSI6MX19.7-dM2Tr6kdUbsQN8-72suOtz0IBq6A6J85dJWKe9AomGfn4wYnqQXhI_oX8vfD2rufhlFj5_-ekv5XMAClV9lg

Here is the 2026 unified salary scale.

Scroll over to schedule C, column 005 which is designated for the Senior Administrator Non Traditional School program:

https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/pdf/fy26-unified-12-month-feu-op.pdf

Here is the pay scale for administrators. Scroll over to a secondary high school principal:

https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/pdf/fy26-school-based-administrator.pdf

Please tell me again how he is getting a promotion and making more money than as a secondary high school principal. Break it down for me using actually pay scales from 2025-26.

[Anonymous]

And for every “promotion” to Gatehouse the county could be hiring 3 new teachers with the salary saved if the employee was let go instead of being “promoted”.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And for every “promotion” to Gatehouse the county could be hiring 3 new teachers with the salary saved if the employee was let go instead of being “promoted”.

Meh. I’m not so sure. It’s really difficult to fire someone if they haven’t done something like shown up to work completely wasted and stealing funds. He could’ve easily fought it and then the county would’ve paid out a lot more in legal fees.

[Anonymous]

They don’t have any problems incurring legal fees. This would have been a worthwhile use of them. And help stop the bad principal to Gatehouse pipeline.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They don’t have any problems incurring legal fees. This would have been a worthwhile use of them. And help stop the bad principal to Gatehouse pipeline.

I disagree. They would not have won. Then they would have been out the legal fees AND still paying him.

I don’t like that anymore than you, but that’s the reality.

[Anonymous]

I didn’t realize FCPS principals and teachers couldn’t be fired for cause. He knew of and didn’t stop residency fraud at his school. What contract provisions protect FCPS teachers and principals from being fired? We didn’t even have collective bargaining until last week somwhy can’t we fire bad educators? I thought that was only hard in big union urban districts?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is absolutely NOT a promotion. Anyone who thinks this is a promotion is greatly misinformed.

Yeah, this is a demotion. I’m not saying he shouldn’t have been fired. But anyone who is saying this is a promotion is wrong.

Anyone can look up the job descriptions. The position he is taking is on the unified salary schedule C, grade 5. The highest step is 20 with a pay of $202K.

A secondary high school principal is on the school-based administrator scale. The highest step is 20 with a pay of $226K.

This was a promotion and pay raise. This is 2 years old but 2 years ago was at $171 (so at a minimum add in the 6% from this year and then whatever increase was year before): https://govsalaries.com/thompson-darin-a-177368986

Job description for Senior Administrator of Nontraditional School Programs is $132 to $201k with least experience being 6 years so he’d be at higher end: https://www.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=a1d52566a76042b2

Interim SA of Nontrad school was Deirdre Lavern who was a HS principal in 2019 at $172k back then: https://govsalaries.com/lavery-deirdre-m-108807952

Damn. The lack of basic research skills is astounding. So instead of just pulling random items, maybe actually look at the actual scales from FCPS. The position he is taking is called “Senior Administrator Non Traditional School Programs.” Its job code is 01215:

https://pf.payfactors.com/client/job-description-management/job-descriptions?jwt=eyJhbGciOiJIUzUxMiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJ0eXBlIjoxLCJjb250ZXh0Ijp7IkNvbXBhbnlJZCI6ODkwNiwiSnd0VHlwZSI6MX19.7-dM2Tr6kdUbsQN8-72suOtz0IBq6A6J85dJWKe9AomGfn4wYnqQXhI_oX8vfD2rufhlFj5_-ekv5XMAClV9lg

Here is the 2026 unified salary scale.

Scroll over to schedule C, column 005 which is designated for the Senior Administrator Non Traditional School program:

https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/pdf/fy26-unified-12-month-feu-op.pdf

Here is the pay scale for administrators. Scroll over to a secondary high school principal:

https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/pdf/fy26-school-based-administrator.pdf

Please tell me again how he is getting a promotion and making more money than as a secondary high school principal. Break it down for me using actually pay scales from 2025-26.

Those new links say the same as the old - the new job scale is 130-200, he was at 170+. I don’t actually think anyone cares if promoted or demoted or what salary getting- I think most who are mad are mad that he’s moving on without any consequences and killing time until pension vests.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And for every “promotion” to Gatehouse the county could be hiring 3 new teachers with the salary saved if the employee was let go instead of being “promoted”.

This.