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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He is giving plenty of notice. Went to one school where the headmaster gave notice right before school ended which gave no time to look for a new headmaster and had to fill it with a temporary one. [/quote]

That head of school who “gave notice” right before school ended was almost certainly fired by their board.

Best practice advance notice is 18 months, not 8 or 9. Nine months requires the board to scramble to hire a consultant, create a committee, and get community feedback before even starting to identify candidates and do initial interviews. The “best” head candidates are interviewing in the fall, so those candidates may be off the board by the time Woods is ready. Woods may be behind the curve here and may end up deciding to have an interim head for a year.[/quote]

No, you are wrong, he was not fired. He took a job out of state and his quitting aligned with the announcement at other school that he was coming in. [/quote]

Maybe he wasn’t fired, but he definitely screwed over your school. And that only happens when the board/head relationship is dysfunctional or damaged. Perhaps he knew he was not being offered a new contract. Regardless, heads don’t routinely leave on short notice. And boards of hiring schools know that they may have to wait for their preferred candidate to start—they don’t want to “steal” a head on short notice, just like they don’t want their head stolen from them on short notice. This is the way it regularly works. Look at the recent retirements from St Patrick’s and Maret—both announced more than a year in advance.[/quote]

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