SSFS HOS leaving

[Anonymous]

At the upper school listening session, I think they said that there would be an email with some information on Friday (last) or Monday (at the latest). Has anyone received any information?

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Anonymous wrote:At the upper school listening session, I think they said that there would be an email with some information on Friday (last) or Monday (at the latest). Has anyone received any information?

Not me

[Anonymous]

No new information. No surprise.

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Anonymous wrote:Look up Moses and bare feet and being grounded with God. It is an optional tradition. US Graduation ceremony was beautiful and meaningful.

I figured it was something like that, I'm trying to figure out why it needed to be "nuanced".

I didnt know this was an SSFS tradition. I saw RG go barefoot, the story he told was that this was something he did because he felt he was entering sacred ground. He never told the story as it being an SSFS tradition, but one that he did. I also never saw other teachers go barefoot either. I always thought this was just something he started doing at this school.

I saw him barefoot at SAES. Is that sacred ground too?

Must have been a cherished SAES tradition 😉

he takes off his shoes and socks during all his PAID speeches. My son told me when he spoke at his school (mentioned a freak giving a dumb speech which was basically a comedy routine, except he didn't realize he was the joke")...oh and one of his 'principle consultants' was the Associate Head of School for DEI (of course now rebranded to 'Community Participation and Belonging" or some such meaningless word salad title that pays $350,000 a year to an otherwise unemployable hack.

Your son sounds lovely.

[Anonymous]

Watching those videos a few pps posted I guess surprised all over again that the board that hired him thought-yes, he’s a good leader for our whole community.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m trying to find major issues with his departure letter and…. Can’t? This board is whacky

I don’t see any issues either but I may be biased. My kid loved Dr. G at SAES; when the kids moved on from MS, where he was the head, to US a lot of them used to just pop in his office to decompress.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m trying to find major issues with his departure letter and…. Can’t? This board is whacky

I don’t see any issues either but I may be biased. My kid loved Dr. G at SAES; when the kids moved on from MS, where he was the head, to US a lot of them used to just pop in his office to decompress.

As the head of a school, the constant self reference and self aggrandizement wear thin pretty quickly.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m trying to find major issues with his departure letter and…. Can’t? This board is whacky

I don’t see any issues either but I may be biased. My kid loved Dr. G at SAES; when the kids moved on from MS, where he was the head, to US a lot of them used to just pop in his office to decompress.

Must not be the same guy. I’ve never heard that he was popular with students here.

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Anonymous wrote:Watching those videos a few pps posted I guess surprised all over again that the board that hired him thought-yes, he’s a good leader for our whole community.

Or at least how they didn’t get rid of him before is the question I’ll never have answered

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Anonymous wrote:Well now I’m curious why they graduate in bare feet and how exactly the school “nuanced its understanding” of that tradition.

Being barefoot at graduation has been a SSFS tradition for at least 25 years. My understanding was that it was related to the Quaker value or simplicity. The kids dress simply (for a long time girls wore simple white dresses) and many went barefoot. It wasn’t required, but many including my child did it. It was seen as a very special tradition.

So an alum from the 70s said it wasn’t a tradition (while mentioning the white dresses). I’ve been to two graduations and RG said this was something HE did, and other posters said he did this at SAES and his speaking engagements. He also walked barefoot around his office for no reason. But you’re saying it’s a 25+ year ssfs graduation tradition. So SAES and ssfs had the same tradition and though I never saw it except with RG, it’s a Quaker tradition? I don’t see how everyone can be talking about the same thing.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m trying to find major issues with his departure letter and…. Can’t? This board is whacky

I don’t see any issues either but I may be biased. My kid loved Dr. G at SAES; when the kids moved on from MS, where he was the head, to US a lot of them used to just pop in his office to decompress.

Must not be the same guy. I’ve never heard that he was popular with students here.

I do not recognize this Rodney you guys at SSFS speak about. I’m sure some at SAES had issues with him because no one is universally loved. He came to my DDs graduation from SAES last year and the seniors were so excited to see him, clamoring to take pics with him. But head of middle school is different to HOS so I am not dismissing the SSFS parents experience with him.

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Anonymous wrote:Well now I’m curious why they graduate in bare feet and how exactly the school “nuanced its understanding” of that tradition.

Being barefoot at graduation has been a SSFS tradition for at least 25 years. My understanding was that it was related to the Quaker value or simplicity. The kids dress simply (for a long time girls wore simple white dresses) and many went barefoot. It wasn’t required, but many including my child did it. It was seen as a very special tradition.

So an alum from the 70s said it wasn’t a tradition (while mentioning the white dresses). I’ve been to two graduations and RG said this was something HE did, and other posters said he did this at SAES and his speaking engagements. He also walked barefoot around his office for no reason. But you’re saying it’s a 25+ year ssfs graduation tradition. So SAES and ssfs had the same tradition and though I never saw it except with RG, it’s a Quaker tradition? I don’t see how everyone can be talking about the same thing.

All I know is that it's been going on for at least 25 years at SSFS. Kids (Not all) take their shoes off to walk across the stage to get their diplomas. Perhaps the tradition hadn't started in the 1970's. In RG's 2021 graduation commencement speech he said that he heard that it was a tradition at SSFS to walk barefoot to get your diploma. And that resonated with him because he liked to give speeches barefoot. Direct quote you can find online -

"I heard that there is a graduation tradition of walking barefoot to receive your diploma. When I heard it, it
only reconfirmed for me that we were an intentional match sealed by the universe. For 20 years, I have
been giving talks and presentations, barefoot."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well now I’m curious why they graduate in bare feet and how exactly the school “nuanced its understanding” of that tradition.

Being barefoot at graduation has been a SSFS tradition for at least 25 years. My understanding was that it was related to the Quaker value or simplicity. The kids dress simply (for a long time girls wore simple white dresses) and many went barefoot. It wasn’t required, but many including my child did it. It was seen as a very special tradition.

So an alum from the 70s said it wasn’t a tradition (while mentioning the white dresses). I’ve been to two graduations and RG said this was something HE did, and other posters said he did this at SAES and his speaking engagements. He also walked barefoot around his office for no reason. But you’re saying it’s a 25+ year ssfs graduation tradition. So SAES and ssfs had the same tradition and though I never saw it except with RG, it’s a Quaker tradition? I don’t see how everyone can be talking about the same thing.

All I know is that it's been going on for at least 25 years at SSFS. Kids (Not all) take their shoes off to walk across the stage to get their diplomas. Perhaps the tradition hadn't started in the 1970's. In RG's 2021 graduation commencement speech he said that he heard that it was a tradition at SSFS to walk barefoot to get your diploma. And that resonated with him because he liked to give speeches barefoot. Direct quote you can find online -

"I heard that there is a graduation tradition of walking barefoot to receive your diploma. When I heard it, it
only reconfirmed for me that we were an intentional match sealed by the universe. For 20 years, I have
been giving talks and presentations, barefoot."

As usual, everything topic relates back to rg

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well now I’m curious why they graduate in bare feet and how exactly the school “nuanced its understanding” of that tradition.

Being barefoot at graduation has been a SSFS tradition for at least 25 years. My understanding was that it was related to the Quaker value or simplicity. The kids dress simply (for a long time girls wore simple white dresses) and many went barefoot. It wasn’t required, but many including my child did it. It was seen as a very special tradition.

So an alum from the 70s said it wasn’t a tradition (while mentioning the white dresses). I’ve been to two graduations and RG said this was something HE did, and other posters said he did this at SAES and his speaking engagements. He also walked barefoot around his office for no reason. But you’re saying it’s a 25+ year ssfs graduation tradition. So SAES and ssfs had the same tradition and though I never saw it except with RG, it’s a Quaker tradition? I don’t see how everyone can be talking about the same thing.

All I know is that it's been going on for at least 25 years at SSFS. Kids (Not all) take their shoes off to walk across the stage to get their diplomas. Perhaps the tradition hadn't started in the 1970's. In RG's 2021 graduation commencement speech he said that he heard that it was a tradition at SSFS to walk barefoot to get your diploma. And that resonated with him because he liked to give speeches barefoot. Direct quote you can find online -

"I heard that there is a graduation tradition of walking barefoot to receive your diploma. When I heard it, it
only reconfirmed for me that we were an intentional match sealed by the universe. For 20 years, I have
been giving talks and presentations, barefoot."

As usual, everything topic relates back to rg

It seems like you have a serious problem with RG that goes beyond any perceived wrongs he did at SSFS.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m trying to find major issues with his departure letter and…. Can’t? This board is whacky

I don’t see any issues either but I may be biased. My kid loved Dr. G at SAES; when the kids moved on from MS, where he was the head, to US a lot of them used to just pop in his office to decompress.

Must not be the same guy. I’ve never heard that he was popular with students here.

I do not recognize this Rodney you guys at SSFS speak about. I’m sure some at SAES had issues with him because no one is universally loved. He came to my DDs graduation from SAES last year and the seniors were so excited to see him, clamoring to take pics with him. But head of middle school is different to HOS so I am not dismissing the SSFS parents experience with him.

It’s not just the parents experience. The school did lose a quarter of their staff, layoff more due to financial problems, and lost 100 students if he was a great administrator. Maybe running a school was beyond his skills of running a MS.