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Bullis HOS “exit was messier than it appeared” according to the Post
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Anonymous
| We are new to Bullis. Chosen for small class sizes (vs 30+ at MCPS) and excellent education. The bad apple is out, and things will improve going forward. |
Anonymous
We send our kids there because we absolutely love the teachers and my kids are thriving and wake up ready to go to school everyday. However, if the teachers start leaving, we will probably be leaving along with them. I never liked Boarman and am thrilled he is out. We are hopeful for the future. My kids are happy, so that’s why we stay. |
Anonymous
| How much was their ppp “loan?” |
Anonymous
| Former Bullis employee here (new poster) - there are some great teachers at Bullis and some not great teachers at Bullis. Hopefully the new leadership will help shift the culture so that great teachers stay and thrive. I left recently and it seems like Bullis has a hard time retaining great, innovative, creative teachers. The flashy wealth of some of the student body (and the Boarman moves the post article talks about) are part of a pretty tough school culture. It feels a little 80’s “greed is good” - all while not paying teachers enough and being stingy with certain benefits. I say give it a few years and it could be a good place to work/go to school. The younger grades seem healthier school culture wise (I’m not a teacher btw) |
Anonymous
Wait until MS... you’re in for a rude awakening. |
Anonymous
For your child’s sake, you had better hope this is the case. |
Anonymous
I like this comment. |
Anonymous
And Holton and Cathedral. |
Anonymous
| The kids drive the culture not the HOS. It’s not going to change. |
Anonymous
| Bullis has a new head of school, Christian Sullivan, who is an experienced administrator and very teacher and student oriented. I truly believe Bullis is now on the right path. There are still issues with Pat Caulfield, but he will be the head of the Board for only one more year. Christian had cleaned house of 15 positions (all are related to admin and programs that are not needed at least for the coming year, no teachers were fired) and he is adding three teachers and three learning specialists. He has made a commitment to smaller teaching loads (capping the number of students a given teacher teaches) and is very teacher-centric. I fully expect things to improve for both students and teachers at Bullis. The Boarman Discovery Center should be renamed. I think it should be named after the very long term science teacher who left last year due to health reasons. I’m just not using her name here as I haven’t asked her if she would be in favor of such an honor. Yes, I am a Bullis teacher. |
Anonymous
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Excerpt from the WaPo article:
“Not long after Boarman started, he hired Natasha Nazareth as Bullis’s general counsel. She had previously been general counsel at the school he led in North Carolina, and she stayed in North Carolina for most of the time she worked for Bullis. Her salary started in 2011 at $60,000 for a 20-hour week. By 2018 it had climbed to $168,000 for full-time work as general counsel and director of strategic initiatives, records show. Meanwhile, Boarman authorized thousands of dollars in travel and hotel expenses for Nazareth to do work at the Maryland campus, according to Fink and another former official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation. Bullis also paid $140,000 over four years for Nazareth’s children to attend Carolina Friends School, in Durham, N.C., records show. The benefit was specifically created for her, according to April 2013 emails between Boarman and the school’s business office. Bullis typically gave teachers and administrators a 75 percent discount on their children’s tuition if accepted at the school. But for Nazareth, Bullis appeared to cover the full cost of tuition at another school for two children from 2013 to 2017, according to billing statements. Nazareth did not answer multiple requests for comment. Though she was still living in North Carolina, Nazareth was tapped to help lead construction of the Discovery Center. In 2016, she and Boarman traveled to Italy, billing Bullis about $4,500 for airfare, according to expense accounts that cited the Discovery Center project. They were believed to be meeting with the project’s architects and selecting Italian building materials on the trip. In 2017, while Boarman was still in his house on Bullis’s campus, he bought a house in the Kentlands area of Montgomery County for $630,000, records show. Nazareth and her children lived in the house, according to three Bullis school directories. Mavrikes, the former trustee, said he had seen canceled checks that showed that Boarman had rented the home to Nazareth.” |
Anonymous
The corrupt Board is still the same - is this how you want your tuition dollars used? I am grateful that our hard-earned money is not supporting a school like this. Remember, this very Board hired the new Head... |
Anonymous
The bad apple might be out but the barrel that supported him is all well and good and still the Board of Trustees. Also, where did you get "excellent education" from? Never been the school's reputation. |
Anonymous
Nice try but...the Board Chair is only one bad seed among MANY. And as PP noted, this Board hired the new Head. Read elsewhere that he has also demanded expensive renovations to the campus house. "Cleaning house??" 15 people suddenly lost their jobs at a time when morale is already low. Hmmmm. Keep drinking that Kool-Aid. |
Anonymous
+1 For your child's sake I hope you enter with your eyes wide open. Not sure how old your DC is, but we pulled our DD when she was a rising 9th grader. The culture was too toxic. She received a much better education, with a more supportive social scene, at our local public high school. It was a real eye opener for us. |