The inevitable and happy risk of having talented employees is that other employers will notice them, and make competitive offers to them. That’s what’s happened for Whitewater Middle School principal Dan Foster, who is returning to Waterford Union, this time to be its high school principal.
He’s paid a required early-departure penalty, and one wishes him the best. I think about this the way I thought about Dr. Zentner’s departure: capable employees will be in demand elsewhere.
Why anyone would write of his departure without the simple announcement of his new position I’ll not understand; it’s to our credit that we’re both open and congratulatory in a departure of this kind. No matter how much a few would wish otherwise, I’m quite sure Whitewater does not sit on a high plateau beyond which there are only deep chasms shrouded in mist.
We have now a position to fill, and it should be filled (permanently) only after a search of at least two candidates. The method (ridiculously tried in this district) of picking one candidate and interviewing him several times does not produce a competitive process.
That way poses a manipulative question to honest interviewers: here’s your one option, dare you have the audacity to object to our insiders’-backed, speeding-train process?
However many or few applications come in, an open process for a permanent replacement needs at least two candidates.
Whitewater’s certainly worthy of a legitimate, solid process.