Reviews on GP and Landon

[Anonymous]

Nice post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nice post.

I'm not sure what he said.

Was it, "I went to Landon but I knew some kids from other schools and we acknowledged one another at parties."?

These schools are pretty insular. Fot the most part Landon kids hang out with Landon kids during their high school years and after. Same for GP and Gonzaga.

[Anonymous]

I think he said he dated a lot of girls

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nice post.

I'm not sure what he said.

Was it, "I went to Landon but I knew some kids from other schools and we acknowledged one another at parties."?

These schools are pretty insular. Fot the most part Landon kids hang out with Landon kids during their high school years and after. Same for GP and Gonzaga.

PP - how can you make such a broad statement regarding the student bodies of three separate schools. Amazing how people just accept anything they've heard based on the slimmest of evidence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nice post.

I'm not sure what he said.

Was it, "I went to Landon but I knew some kids from other schools and we acknowledged one another at parties."?

These schools are pretty insular. Fot the most part Landon kids hang out with Landon kids during their high school years and after. Same for GP and Gonzaga.

PP - how can you make such a broad statement regarding the student bodies of three separate schools. Amazing how people just accept anything they've heard based on the slimmest of evidence.

I have three boys worth of experience over 8 years for evidence.

The you don't know this is scary.

[Anonymous]

PP is not even legible let alone credible and purports not to understand anything to the contrary. I see groups of friends with GP, Landon and other boys all the time. Maybe PP's 8 years of boys had their own problems.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP is not even legible let alone credible and purports not to understand anything to the contrary. I see groups of friends with GP, Landon and other boys all the time. Maybe PP's 8 years of boys had their own problems.

They were actual athletes. Maybe that's the difference.

As another poster correctly wrote earlier, "There's no love lost between these student bodies". There's much more anomosity than friendship.

[Anonymous]

Agree. I'm surprised that PP posted that incoherent message to boast about "8 whole years of experience" - which is what anyone with two kids in private high school would have.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PP is not even legible let alone credible and purports not to understand anything to the contrary. I see groups of friends with GP, Landon and other boys all the time. Maybe PP's 8 years of boys had their own problems.

They were actual athletes. Maybe that's the difference.

As another poster correctly wrote earlier, "There's no love lost between these student bodies". There's much more anomosity than friendship.

"actual athletes" as opposed to what? My DS played on club and AAU teams with kids from all three schools. There is a rivalry to be sure, but these kids have a lot of friendships with kids from other schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nice post.

I'm not sure what he said.

Was it, "I went to Landon but I knew some kids from other schools and we acknowledged one another at parties."?

These schools are pretty insular. Fot the most part Landon kids hang out with Landon kids during their high school years and after. Same for GP and Gonzaga.

Allow me to clarify:

Members of my hockey team spent a lot of time together before and after practice and on road trips. One of my best friends went to Bullis. Two other close friends went to St. Andrews. Naturally I also had friends at Landon, and they, too, had friends from their neighborhoods and/or other schools.

So the point was that, while the plural of anecdote is not data, I can provide several examples of people who were not as "insular" as this thread implies. If a small group of DC area Catholics are hung up on the idea that sending boys to Landon (or another non-Catholic school) is somehow a sign of apostasy, then there's not much to be done about that other than feel sorry for those people.

Many people at the various schools hang out with people from their own school because of inertia and they don't get the opportunity to do things that involve people from other schools.

Credit for my exposure to others outside my allegedly insular environment goes primarily to my parents, who provided me with opportunities outside of Landon and who, until I got my license, were willing to drive me out to places I couldn't reach by bike (as I mentioned, I lived in CC while many others lived in Potomac, McLean, Arlington or other points even further out in the wilds outside the Beltway).

Once I could drive, those friendships were already cemented, so they continued into my later high school years and beyond.

So, if you want your kids to have a more diverse group of friends, look at what you're doing to facilitate their exposure to peers beyond their immediate environment. By the time they're juniors and seniors in high school it's too late.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nice post.

I'm not sure what he said.

Was it, "I went to Landon but I knew some kids from other schools and we acknowledged one another at parties."?

These schools are pretty insular. Fot the most part Landon kids hang out with Landon kids during their high school years and after. Same for GP and Gonzaga.

Allow me to clarify:

Members of my hockey team spent a lot of time together before and after practice and on road trips. One of my best friends went to Bullis. Two other close friends went to St. Andrews. Naturally I also had friends at Landon, and they, too, had friends from their neighborhoods and/or other schools.

So the point was that, while the plural of anecdote is not data, I can provide several examples of people who were not as "insular" as this thread implies. If a small group of DC area Catholics are hung up on the idea that sending boys to Landon (or another non-Catholic school) is somehow a sign of apostasy, then there's not much to be done about that other than feel sorry for those people.

Many people at the various schools hang out with people from their own school because of inertia and they don't get the opportunity to do things that involve people from other schools.

Credit for my exposure to others outside my allegedly insular environment goes primarily to my parents, who provided me with opportunities outside of Landon and who, until I got my license, were willing to drive me out to places I couldn't reach by bike (as I mentioned, I lived in CC while many others lived in Potomac, McLean, Arlington or other points even further out in the wilds outside the Beltway).

Once I could drive, those friendships were already cemented, so they continued into my later high school years and beyond.

So, if you want your kids to have a more diverse group of friends, look at what you're doing to facilitate their exposure to peers beyond their immediate environment. By the time they're juniors and seniors in high school it's too late.

I'm not a Landon fan at all, but your posts are thoughtful and well reasoned. You seem like a good man.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nice post.

I'm not sure what he said.

Was it, "I went to Landon but I knew some kids from other schools and we acknowledged one another at parties."?

These schools are pretty insular. Fot the most part Landon kids hang out with Landon kids during their high school years and after. Same for GP and Gonzaga.

Allow me to clarify:

Members of my hockey team spent a lot of time together before and after practice and on road trips. One of my best friends went to Bullis. Two other close friends went to St. Andrews. Naturally I also had friends at Landon, and they, too, had friends from their neighborhoods and/or other schools.

So the point was that, while the plural of anecdote is not data, I can provide several examples of people who were not as "insular" as this thread implies. If a small group of DC area Catholics are hung up on the idea that sending boys to Landon (or another non-Catholic school) is somehow a sign of apostasy, then there's not much to be done about that other than feel sorry for those people.

Many people at the various schools hang out with people from their own school because of inertia and they don't get the opportunity to do things that involve people from other schools.

Credit for my exposure to others outside my allegedly insular environment goes primarily to my parents, who provided me with opportunities outside of Landon and who, until I got my license, were willing to drive me out to places I couldn't reach by bike (as I mentioned, I lived in CC while many others lived in Potomac, McLean, Arlington or other points even further out in the wilds outside the Beltway).

Once I could drive, those friendships were already cemented, so they continued into my later high school years and beyond.

So, if you want your kids to have a more diverse group of friends, look at what you're doing to facilitate their exposure to peers beyond their immediate environment. By the time they're juniors and seniors in high school it's too late.

I'm not a Landon fan at all, but your posts are thoughtful and well reasoned. You seem like a good man.

+1

[Anonymous]

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nice post.

So, if you want your kids to have a more diverse group of friends, look at what you're doing to facilitate their exposure to peers beyond their immediate environment. By the time they're juniors and seniors in high school it's too late.

And absent this extra effort to "facilitate exposure" the result is that inertia takes over?

[Anonymous]

I'm a Landon parent, and there are things I like and don't like about the school, but the PP Landon graduate makes me proud!!