Wow, the school drama sounds intense. We regularly have people vanish in early August and have to scramble to hire replacements, but it sounds like it's a smaller percentage of our staff and less of an existential crisis.
My sense from nine years working at one fairly normal K-12 school, two at a really weird K-12 school, and another long ago nine years working at a different normal one is that as an Upper School, you should know better than to pick a fight with Lower School, because Lower School will win. But maybe that's less obvious than it looks from here? They've got more kids and more staff.
Good luck figuring out the education dilemma. I doubt there's much I can do from down in Philly, but I'd be glad to try if there was.
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My sense from nine years working at one fairly normal K-12 school, two at a really weird K-12 school, and another long ago nine years working at a different normal one is that as an Upper School, you should know better than to pick a fight with Lower School, because Lower School will win. But maybe that's less obvious than it looks from here? They've got more kids and more staff.
Good luck figuring out the education dilemma. I doubt there's much I can do from down in Philly, but I'd be glad to try if there was.