Don't know about our colleague, but I have offered my services to help the committee.

I was told, "We are in need of directors with more experience and 'distinction'", and wasn't asked to be on the committee.

Experience and distinction? My resume:

--15 years on the job, at the time I had been at this school for 12 of them.

--Of those 12 years, 10 of them were sweepstakes

--Several trips to SMC

--2 State Finalists for HB

I don't know how much more distinct someone could be in 15 years. OOOOOHHHH, wait, I teach at a 1A school. There's the problem.

The anti-small school bias is very real; big school directors like to look down their noses at the "small school" guys. That's why there are so few directors that make the jump from ATSSB to any 5/6A position. That's why Frank Erickson's "Air for Band" languished on the Grade 1 PML for decades before it got moved to Grade 3 where it belonged just a couple of years ago...the 6A guys told everyone "that's too easy", (note: the piece didn't get two grade levels harder overnight) That's why we still have SR pieces with issues.