Anonymous wrote:And for every “promotion” to Gatehouse the county could be hiring 3 new teachers with the salary saved if the employee was let go instead of being “promoted”.

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Anonymous wrote:This is absolutely NOT a promotion. Anyone who thinks this is a promotion is greatly misinformed.

Yeah, this is a demotion. I’m not saying he shouldn’t have been fired. But anyone who is saying this is a promotion is wrong.

Anyone can look up the job descriptions. The position he is taking is on the unified salary schedule C, grade 5. The highest step is 20 with a pay of $202K.

A secondary high school principal is on the school-based administrator scale. The highest step is 20 with a pay of $226K.

This was a promotion and pay raise. This is 2 years old but 2 years ago was at $171 (so at a minimum add in the 6% from this year and then whatever increase was year before): https://govsalaries.com/thompson-darin-a-177368986

Job description for Senior Administrator of Nontraditional School Programs is $132 to $201k with least experience being 6 years so he’d be at higher end: https://www.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=a1d52566a76042b2

Interim SA of Nontrad school was Deirdre Lavern who was a HS principal in 2019 at $172k back then: https://govsalaries.com/lavery-deirdre-m-108807952

Damn. The lack of basic research skills is astounding. So instead of just pulling random items, maybe actually look at the actual scales from FCPS. The position he is taking is called “Senior Administrator Non Traditional School Programs.” Its job code is 01215:

https://pf.payfactors.com/client/job-description-management/job-descriptions?jwt=eyJhbGciOiJIUzUxMiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJ0eXBlIjoxLCJjb250ZXh0Ijp7IkNvbXBhbnlJZCI6ODkwNiwiSnd0VHlwZSI6MX19.7-dM2Tr6kdUbsQN8-72suOtz0IBq6A6J85dJWKe9AomGfn4wYnqQXhI_oX8vfD2rufhlFj5_-ekv5XMAClV9lg

Here is the 2026 unified salary scale.

Scroll over to schedule C, column 005 which is designated for the Senior Administrator Non Traditional School program:

https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/pdf/fy26-unified-12-month-feu-op.pdf

Here is the pay scale for administrators. Scroll over to a secondary high school principal:

https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/pdf/fy26-school-based-administrator.pdf

Please tell me again how he is getting a promotion and making more money than as a secondary high school principal. Break it down for me using actually pay scales from 2025-26.

Anonymous wrote:They don’t have any problems incurring legal fees. This would have been a worthwhile use of them. And help stop the bad principal to Gatehouse pipeline.

Anonymous wrote:And for every “promotion” to Gatehouse the county could be hiring 3 new teachers with the salary saved if the employee was let go instead of being “promoted”.

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Anonymous wrote:This is absolutely NOT a promotion. Anyone who thinks this is a promotion is greatly misinformed.

Yeah, this is a demotion. I’m not saying he shouldn’t have been fired. But anyone who is saying this is a promotion is wrong.

Anyone can look up the job descriptions. The position he is taking is on the unified salary schedule C, grade 5. The highest step is 20 with a pay of $202K.

A secondary high school principal is on the school-based administrator scale. The highest step is 20 with a pay of $226K.

This was a promotion and pay raise. This is 2 years old but 2 years ago was at $171 (so at a minimum add in the 6% from this year and then whatever increase was year before): https://govsalaries.com/thompson-darin-a-177368986

Job description for Senior Administrator of Nontraditional School Programs is $132 to $201k with least experience being 6 years so he’d be at higher end: https://www.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=a1d52566a76042b2

Interim SA of Nontrad school was Deirdre Lavern who was a HS principal in 2019 at $172k back then: https://govsalaries.com/lavery-deirdre-m-108807952

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Anonymous wrote:This is absolutely NOT a promotion. Anyone who thinks this is a promotion is greatly misinformed.

Yeah, this is a demotion. I’m not saying he shouldn’t have been fired. But anyone who is saying this is a promotion is wrong.

Anyone can look up the job descriptions. The position he is taking is on the unified salary schedule C, grade 5. The highest step is 20 with a pay of $202K.

A secondary high school principal is on the school-based administrator scale. The highest step is 20 with a pay of $226K.

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Anonymous wrote:he should have been fired and have $0 salary

Gatehouse is the epitome of a bloated bureaucracy.

Anonymous wrote:he should have been fired and have $0 salary

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Anonymous wrote:This is absolutely NOT a promotion. Anyone who thinks this is a promotion is greatly misinformed.

Yeah, this is a demotion. I’m not saying he shouldn’t have been fired. But anyone who is saying this is a promotion is wrong.

Anyone can look up the job descriptions. The position he is taking is on the unified salary schedule C, grade 5. The highest step is 20 with a pay of $202K.

A secondary high school principal is on the school-based administrator scale. The highest step is 20 with a pay of $226K.

$202K after the job he did?

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Anonymous wrote:This is absolutely NOT a promotion. Anyone who thinks this is a promotion is greatly misinformed.

Yeah, this is a demotion. I’m not saying he shouldn’t have been fired. But anyone who is saying this is a promotion is wrong.

Anyone can look up the job descriptions. The position he is taking is on the unified salary schedule C, grade 5. The highest step is 20 with a pay of $202K.

A secondary high school principal is on the school-based administrator scale. The highest step is 20 with a pay of $226K.

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Anonymous wrote:This is absolutely NOT a promotion. Anyone who thinks this is a promotion is greatly misinformed.

It's not getting fired, which is what should have happened.