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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Will say I find it intriguing he went from Calvert to Kincaid, a perfectly logical move, but then from Kincaid to Tatnall? That would seem like a significant step down. Calvert is a prestigious Baltimore K-8 with a long history and is very well known in the world of education. Kincaid is a prominent Houston school with an impressively fancy campus. But Tatnall is a minor Delaware school. Going from Kincaid to Landon makes more sense than Kincaid-Tatnall-Landon. [/quote]

It’s amazing to me that you can post this, casting a shadow on him, with all sorts of speculation and suspicions while knowing  nothing about him. And frankly, how can you know so much about all these schools? You’ve personally had children at all of them? 🙄[/quote]

I know enough about these schools as I am from the Baltimore private school world and have family in Houston that it's undeniable Tatnall is a major step down from the previous two schools in general prestige. It is intriguing one would make this decision. Maybe he wanted to step back from a higher profile and higher pressure role for a while. Will say Landon is also a school that falls into the high profile category and the search committee chose him, so whatever the reasons were they did not hold it against him. Not wishing him anything but best luck in his new role. [/quote]

Maybe he and his family didn't want to live in Texas or Houston anymore? Maybe they wanted to get back to the mid-atlantic? Not every job move is based purely on prestige.  Other factors of a job matter, including location.[/quote]

There's no shortage of elite private schools on the east coast he could have lateralled to by biding his time. Suspect the answer is, as was alluded by other posters on here, personal family reasons, could be needed to be closer to aging parents or someone for health reasons. I'm amused at the pooh-poohing of even daring to point out the move to Tatnall cannot be described as anything but a career step down, because it is, regardless of what the reasons were. When you perform at the top of your profession it is rare to make these kinds of moves. That's like someone leaving a prestigious Hopkins med role for a third rate hospital in the middle of Illinois. [/quote]

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