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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bush head of school Percy Abrams just announced he's leaving the school. He was a great HOS.  I fully expect a weak social justice hire to replace him, like we have seen for Lakeside and SCDS.  When the private schools are the same watered down product as public schools, you really start to have no options.  [/quote]

Bush, Lakeside and SCDS will never have a shortage of parents willing to pay for perceived prestige, especially among old-Seattle types trying to replicate their privilege and new money tech families eager to get a foothold in that universe.

But Percy Abrams leaving is the end of an era and will definitely hobble Bush. The HOS pipeline isn’t very robust. It’s the same people playing musical chairs across the country. There’s an entire generation that bided their time associate or assistant heads and never got their chance, and hiring committees are now drawn to younger leaders without complicated histories but who turn out to be inexperienced leaders.

It’s not even “social justice hires”- it’s just that a lot of candidates don’t have the sophistication or experience to run complex organizations. An inexperienced administration puts huge demands on Boards of Trustees and they’re burnt out and aging out, too. Meanwhile parents expect everything, especially parents new to private schools.

Anyway, in short: I agree. Private school parents feel like they’re not getting their money’s worth but don’t know what else to do, and public schools are doing their best to become a non-option.[/quote]

Agree. For Bush the pressure is even greater since it's a high school. There are few HOS in the market with the connections that Abrams had. [/quote]

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