Rumors, Rumors, Rumors.

There are rumors rampant throughout the school about "what is going on" with the school and the search and just about everything else. One of the reasons we started this blog was, at least for Head of School issues, it provides an easy way for people get the actual facts and not have to rely upon rumors. Unfortunately, because of the nature of the search, as well as the need for the author to spend a few moments every now and then on his day job, there has to be a quiet time. We're in that time, and the unfortunate result is that, well, now there's all sorts of rumors flying about.

We've heard a bunch of them, and let me tell you, when you actually know the facts, and you hear some of the rumors, you scratch your head and wonder. It is important for people not to trust the rumors, but to rely solely upon official sources of news. Sometimes the rumors are based upon events that occurred months ago, and are no longer accurate. Other times, the rumors are clearly just made up by someone.

We recently heard that the word on the street was that our Head of School was leaving because she did not want to lower our tuition and that the Board did, so the Board fired her. This is categorically false. Indeed, the Head of School announced her departure before the Board ever decided to lower the tuition; the two issues had absolutely nothing to do with each other!

Don't listen to rumors.

We can tell you that we should have some concrete news about the search process in less than a week.

More later.