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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A head of school has how many hundred people under them and how many millions under their direction? Seems reasonable to me. [/quote]

And they are in charge of fund raising and have decision power on the direction of the school on most matters (where the board doesn't step in).[/quote]

This.

And, the head of school gets blamed for EVERYTHING. They take the hits, because everything rests at their feet. There is so much going on outside of the classroom; parents have the privilege of never needing to know about it, because the HoS, board, and admin team handle it.

The job is extremely demanding. There is no down time, no real days off. And to do it well is challenging.

Setting aside running the actual school, managing teachers/directors/admin staff handling discipline issues where they escalate to that level—the HoS must:

- network to help with student placement  
- network to attract excellent employees
- stay abreast of market trends to attract families in an increasingly competitive environment 
- keep up with educational trends
- serve on boards of other independent schools
- field calls from angry parents who often don’t have all the facts
- make hard decisions, every day

It’s an extraordinarily difficult job. It deserves significant compensation.

And though it’s hard to believe, every school has a significant gap between expenses to educate our children and what we pay in tuition. The economics of independent schools is extremely difficult. No one wants higher tuition, but we all want the benefits of extraordinary teachers, state of the art facilities and tech labs, etc. It’s just damn expensive, and none of us is paying what it actually costs. 
[/quote] Our HOS doesn’t do a fraction of those things and is pretty lame at doing the things they do. [/quote]

If that is the case your school will probably not be around for long.[/quote]

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