Head Master

Head Master commands the school as young Jed Bartlet's father, his salary igniting Mrs. Landingham's ferocious assault on gender pay gaps. She skewers defenses of male colleagues' inflated wages, then contrasts his pay against groundskeeper Malcolm Bundy's under a child-support metric—thrusting Jed toward confrontation. This pivotal demand forges the boy's moral spine, channeling paternal authority into a lifelong crusade against inequity that propels the future president through White House tempests.