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[quote=Anonymous]The school is really having an identity crisis between current parents with deep pockets and the hardtime alums.

The old school members who have lived in DC their entire life, who graduated from Prep in the 60's and 70's and even eary 80's, want Prep to remain an elite athletic school that can compete with the likes of St. Johns and Gonzaga. Athletic competition is part of the Catholic culture. These alums, boosters, parents of former students, live for Prep athletics.

Since Father George went on a spending spree, Prep's tuition has gone up drastically ($31K). Prep in the past 4 years has made a push to improve its academic picture in the DC area. Parents and boosters continue to bitch and moan about the current admissions director who has not let in nearly the amount of athletes Prep used to have in the 90's and early to mid 2000's.

St. Johns and Gonzaga which used to be viewed as safety schools for Prep (Gonzaga has now become the destination of choice for Montgomery County Catholics) and even St. Johns is now starting to tap in the Mater Dei talent pool. Prep's tuiton is only going up with their campus and physical plant.

Prep as a result is now looking for families who can pay $31K a year to fill its walls. Yes they have student aid for a few of the athletes but the overall culture of the school is changing.

Father marco wanted to make Prep an elite Jesuit schol with a large boarding component. People on the board, several boosters, old-timers, clearly have been upset with the direction Prep is heading and Marco is mysteriosuly let go in the middle of the year. There is no secret here.

Whatever headmaster they choose will have a major problem on his hands. (its very strange why the school hasnt even filled this position or if they have gone since its now early MARCH and Marco was forced out last January) You can continue to point fingers that the search committee is "making sure the next headmaster" is the RIGHT guy to lead the school but I personally feel its something else. Maybe there is just too much politics with old alums and boosters that maybe any headmaster with prior big time experience doesnt want to take the job.

I hope Prep can ride the storm they are in now. Its never healthy from a PR standpoint to have a vacant headmaster seat for this long. The search committee has had over a year to fill this position.[/quote]

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