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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Consider that no public school Superintendent around here makes moser than $350k, but has to manage organizations far larger and more complex, plus answer to elected officials and citizens.

HOS pay is outrageous and, frankly, embarrassing.[/quote]

Yes. [b]And determined by a free market.[/b] And funded by people that earn more than them.  Btw... many HoS earn more than POTUS.  We could play the comparison game all day. HoS is tremendously demanding job that very few people could handle.  The workload and "balls in the air" are mind-numbing.[/quote]

GDS, while capitalist, does not abide wholly by a libertarian, "free market" set of ideals. The hypocrisy is that GDS is a school that has a very clear "brand" of social justice and equity. It seems like the *board*, which has a large share of finance-type parents, has a massive blind spot in thinking critically about how the publicly available data about the salary of the HOS fails to align with the mission of the school. This is not about reducing the HOS salary to that of government employees, but about making sure that the HOS salary is consistent with the school's stated principles. It's not.
And all those arguments about how hard the job is and deserved fair compensation--that's a BS reason. There are a ton of jobs that are just as hard, if not harder, and pay does not consistently parallel the complexity of the job. But it's obvious that the GDS HOS salary is an outlier among similar positions. He's very good and should be compensated fairly, but it should be at least in line with other HOS and reflect the purpose of the school. 
Also, the HOS does bear some responsibility for his pay. While he does not determine his own salary, he is in constant communication with the board and could share his views about, again, this publicly available data and how poorly it reflects on the school.[/quote]

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