Does the HOS at Potomac Really Make This Much??

[Anonymous]

I’m all for principals being paid competitive salaries, but we all know the teachers and other staff get paid poorly. Teachers face outrageous demands from private school parents these days, too!

[Anonymous]

If Potomac has good college placement no one will complain. Why would anyone assume teachers are not well paid at Potomac?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If Potomac has good college placement no one will complain. Why would anyone assume teachers are not well paid at Potomac?

Respectfully, I would submit that There’s a lot more to creating and sustaining a great school than good college placements. There will be kids that have an excellent educational and social experience that are not placed in a great college. There will be kids that are placed a great college despite a bad social and educational experience in high school. So I would judge the school And the work of the head on many criteria, including college placements.

[Anonymous]

Parents look for college results. FFC has great schools including TJ and you go to Potomac to help college placement.

[Anonymous]

Here’s the thing: like it or not - those are the standard HOS salary ranges. Nationwide it’s even higher. Don’t like it? Go to public school. But independent school HOS is a heck of a job and is being paid at this level - period. And if an independent school has the means and it’s sustainable, they should absolutely create a model to pay teachers more. No question. But you just can’t compare a teacher’s job to a HOS’s job. Both very important, but also very different.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If Potomac has good college placement no one will complain. Why would anyone assume teachers are not well paid at Potomac?

Respectfully, I would submit that There’s a lot more to creating and sustaining a great school than good college placements. There will be kids that have an excellent educational and social experience that are not placed in a great college. There will be kids that are placed a great college despite a bad social and educational experience in high school. So I would judge the school And the work of the head on many criteria, including college placements.

This was my kid. Absolutely not worth the social misery of their clique driven class. And the CCO doesn’t do much there-most kids that got Ivy placements and T20 schools were fueled by legacy and other hooks.

[Anonymous]

Schools do not place kids in colleges.

[Anonymous]

True. Placement is a dumb word. And it was lazy of me to use that word following somebody else’s use of it, without saying the following: The kids have to get themselves into universities, but college admissions offices certainly know the reputations of each private school in DC. And your school’s college counselors are charged with creating relationships with those admissions offices and touting the curriculum and quality of the school they represent. So the universities to which kids are accepted is a feather in the cap of the school, and a source of pride for the teachers, counselors and administrators, and certainly one measure of a Head’s success.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here’s the thing: like it or not - those are the standard HOS salary ranges. Nationwide it’s even higher. Don’t like it? Go to public school. But independent school HOS is a heck of a job and is being paid at this level - period. And if an independent school has the means and it’s sustainable, they should absolutely create a model to pay teachers more. No question. But you just can’t compare a teacher’s job to a HOS’s job. Both very important, but also very different.

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Anonymous wrote:Again salary is justified if college placement holds. So many parents watch this and as said earlier the the insta posts are making placement sport for insensitive parents who do not realize how this makes kids feel.

My kids got into great colleges from Potomac. But the trauma they endured while there was not worth it, and I certainly hate that he makes what he does to do almost nothing in the face of pretty traumatic circumstances, then take a sabbatical. The people who were on the board in 2020 should be ashamed of themselves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If Potomac has good college placement no one will complain. Why would anyone assume teachers are not well paid at Potomac?

Respectfully, I would submit that There’s a lot more to creating and sustaining a great school than good college placements. There will be kids that have an excellent educational and social experience that are not placed in a great college. There will be kids that are placed a great college despite a bad social and educational experience in high school. So I would judge the school And the work of the head on many criteria, including college placements.

This was my kid. Absolutely not worth the social misery of their clique driven class. And the CCO doesn’t do much there-most kids that got Ivy placements and T20 schools were fueled by legacy and other hooks.

Listen, I agree that the toxic environment at Potomac is reallydevastating for some kids, but can we please stop bashing athletes and other hard-working kids who got into great colleges for their hard work and sacrifice?

[Anonymous]

^^^Wasn’t bashing athletes or legacies at all-just pointing out that going to Potomac had nothing to do with those kids college placements!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:True. Placement is a dumb word. And it was lazy of me to use that word following somebody else’s use of it, without saying the following: The kids have to get themselves into universities, but college admissions offices certainly know the reputations of each private school in DC. And your school’s college counselors are charged with creating relationships with those admissions offices and touting the curriculum and quality of the school they represent. So the universities to which kids are accepted is a feather in the cap of the school, and a source of pride for the teachers, counselors and administrators, and certainly one measure of a Head’s success.

No, it's a measure of success of the students, teachers, college counselors. The only thing the head of school more than likely did was hire the teachers and counselors.

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Anonymous wrote:True. Placement is a dumb word. And it was lazy of me to use that word following somebody else’s use of it, without saying the following: The kids have to get themselves into universities, but college admissions offices certainly know the reputations of each private school in DC. And your school’s college counselors are charged with creating relationships with those admissions offices and touting the curriculum and quality of the school they represent. So the universities to which kids are accepted is a feather in the cap of the school, and a source of pride for the teachers, counselors and administrators, and certainly one measure of a Head’s success.

No, it's a measure of success of the students, teachers, college counselors. The only thing the head of school more than likely did was hire the teachers and counselors.

The point is "placement" is a horrible word. It implies active work by the school to secure positions in prestigious colleges for their students, with a large degree of influence. Schools can tout acceptances and matriculations. The head hired the teachers and counselors, but that's his or her job. To say the head doesn't share in the success of the acceptances and matriculations is like saying the GM of a football team doesn't get credit for a Super Bowl cause he never put on a uniform. Moreover, a head is responsible for the daily and yearly success of the school in every way shape and form.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Im pretty sure he lives on campus

Nope. Quite a few of the executive team members do, and the fellows live on campus, but he lives in his private home in McLean.

What are you talking about. No faculty lives members live on campus at Potomac, including the HOS. As a Potomac parent I personally find his salary obscene. He is underwhelming at best and a mediocre public speaker and HOS. Part of the old guard where white male administrators are under skilled and overpaid.