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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's  a danger for heads of schools leaving after only being at a school for a few years--at Sidwell, it's obviously becoming a  stepping stone job for someone who wants to go elsewhere and make a lot more money. No loyalty, and it hurts the school community. [/quote]
I think your hypothesis might not square with the facts.

As I understand it from the posts here and from a little reading online, the departing HOS at Sidwell announced one year ago that he'd be retiring (truly retiring), and that he'd stay on at Sidwell for two years (until after the 2014-15 school year) to allow the school to search for a replacement.  Then, some months later, he got offered the opportunity to start up a new school in Dubai (and probably a ton of cash), so he convinced Sidwell to let him leave at the end of the 2013-14 school year instead.  My point is that (from looking at the public facts) he wasn't using the school as a "stepping stone" to anywhere, but rather was enticed out of his plans to retire.

And along those same lines, a little quick Googling suggests that the prior full-time HOS was there 1998-2009, at which point he too retired, so that sure doesn't seem like any "stepping stone" to me.

Maybe your stepping stone theory makes sense in some other context, but it does not seem applicable here.[/quote]

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