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[quote=Anonymous]Okay, on so your first two questions, I'm not sure what you mean by "links," or what "board/parents community" you're talking about. Who is the "they" that you're wondering about and what do you mean by "contribute to the selection"?

The insinuation seems to be that maybe the Maret board was some how paid off or had some other reason besides merit to select the HOS candidate. The only basis for that seems to be that, well, the guy worked at Whittle and had a kid there, and his wife was on the parent investor committee so obviously it's suspicious. That's not logic, and there's no real suggestion of why it should be suspicious.

As for the idea that the Maret HOS selection was a fait accompli, I wonder if you have ever been in an organization with a search committee for a leader? In my experience, the search committee always talks about the rigor of the search and makes a big deal of taking input from the community, and yet it always seems like the candidate was a foregone conclusion from the beginning. I've seen it multiple times, at church, at nonprofits, etc. So the idea that some people thought the selection was a fait accompli is probably the most predictable part of any leadership search and does not by itself signal anything nefarious.

On your third question, if by "inner circle parents" you mean the Whittle parent investment committee, the answer is no. All three the committee parents had seniors, all of whom have graduated.

On a few of your other questions: 
* The investment committee did not get a stipend

* The signal group was for parents to coordinate because the school was having continual money problems. All parents were allowed in the signal group. The content of the signal messages was exactly what you would expect.

* NDAs were necessary because the parent committee was given access to nonpublic financial information so that they could evaluate it and then give their conclusions to the other parents. At the outset, they told parents they thought the financing deal had a 40-60% chance of closing. Maybe that was misleading, or maybe it was motivated thinking. I do think the fact that all of the committee had seniors is problematic.

I don't know about your other questions, except that it sounds like those are things you wish had interesting answers so you can read about them, not things you have any reason to think happened. But reality is usually more boring and annoying than it is juicy. 
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