Landon School - Positive Freshman Parent Reflection

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I find it weird that the father lobbied the soccer coach on the son's behalf. Where's all that independence?

+1 -- also weird that not only did he lobby, but then he brags about greasing the skids for DS to make varsity. Jeez, Dad, way to emasculate Junior. GO BEARS!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I find it weird that the father lobbied the soccer coach on the son's behalf. Where's all that independence?

+1 -- also weird that not only did he lobby, but then he brags about greasing the skids for DS to make varsity. Jeez, Dad, way to emasculate Junior. GO BEARS!

If you knew anything about the soccer coach at Landon, then you would know that there is no "greasing the skids" with him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the PR department is hard at work. My son's excelling at his school; would I sit down and write about it and share it with ya'll on a Thursday night? No, way. I have a life and 1000 other things to do as the school year comes to a close. This is a "set" piece done at the suggestion of marketing. Landon has a lot of problems - the LAX environment; the Duke mess; the ethics messes; the history of cheating on SATs; the way the boys treat girls, etc. This just isn't the way to fix those problems but it appears marketing wanted something it could point to during the summer tours.

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I think you need to take more meds. Do you honestly think a PR dept at a school would tell parents to go on DCUM and write positive things about a school? Or would then use them on student tours? I realize that people on here (no offense to Jeff) think DCUM is the center of the universe but the reality is it's not.

I must be out of the loop because I never got the email. The only time the school "asks" us to do something is to forward names of boys who might be open to coming to an admissions session.

THAT'S IT.

Believe what you want but there is no diabolical plan. The OP was truly expressing his experience. You just don't want to accept that the parent and child could have had a good experience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I find it weird that the father lobbied the soccer coach on the son's behalf. Where's all that independence?

+1 -- also weird that not only did he lobby, but then he brags about greasing the skids for DS to make varsity. Jeez, Dad, way to emasculate Junior. GO BEARS!

If you knew anything about the soccer coach at Landon, then you would know that there is no "greasing the skids" with him.

I don't know anything about Landon at all, actually, so I'll gladly defer to your view, but OP certainly seems to believe this played a key part in getting DS on the team.

[Anonymous]

To the 4th and 5th grade parents, you have a lot to learn. Write back in about 5 years.

[Anonymous]

Look, I can't stand Landon--we got outta there. But , I think op was really trying to be positive about the place. It was a well meaning gesture.

[Anonymous]

Great post, OP. We are also a happily satisfied Landon family, with a son in the Lower School and one in the Middle School. Thank you for sharing your thoughts.

[Anonymous]

OP here.

It is great that others felt comfortable to share positive experiences at Landon.

"Go Bears" is only an indication of school spirit. A reaffirmation of me and my son's positive experience.

Communicating with the soccer coach, was only due diligence. I believe most parents would communicate with their child's prospective athletic coach beforehand to gain a better understanding of the coach and the program.

I recognize and respect that others may not have a similar experience. This is my experience.

Continue with the posts. Hopefully they will be more positive than negative.

Landon Freshman Parent

[Anonymous]

Laughing at you OP. Must be your first child. Poor kid.

[Anonymous]

me again - and, my comment has nothing to do with Landon and everything to do with how you are parenting. Oh, wait, maybe, the parenting style works perfectly in the Landon culture?

[Anonymous]

Thanks OP. We have two sons and I think we will seriously consider Landon for our younger son. Thank you for taking the time to share your experience.

[Anonymous]

It was a good piece until he admitted that he lobbied the soccer coach on behalf of his son. Then he revealed himself to be a freak like many other sports dads.

[Anonymous]

Leave the guy alone. He is involved in his son's life which is commendable. He is only saying that he is proud of his son and that his son is having a positive experience at Landon. Considering the most recent at the school it is reasonable that a father would want to share their family's positive experiences at Landon.

So my presumption is that the OP is a good man and his son is a good kid who happens to excell at soccer. It's great that this freshman has the guts to play this very physical sport with older and presumably stronger boys, it's great that he was a real team player, but what was lacking in the original posting was the courage to say that what the lacrosse team did was wrong!

This man's son is successful at Landon and he's pleased to share that fact with the world, but he doesn't have the guts to rock the boat and to call out the lacrosse team for its dehumanizing behaviors towards the members of the opposing team.

The reason Landon as a school has engaged in so many dehumanizing events is because the good people at Landon have accepted it. This man is actually the quintessential Landon father. As long as his kid is doing alright and he's being left along, he really doesn't give a damn what happens to anyone else. Until the good people at Landon stop being either afraid of being "next" or just being apathetic, the school can never change.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the PR department is hard at work. My son's excelling at his school; would I sit down and write about it and share it with ya'll on a Thursday night? No, way. I have a life and 1000 other things to do as the school year comes to a close. This is a "set" piece done at the suggestion of marketing. Landon has a lot of problems - the LAX environment; the Duke mess; the ethics messes; the history of cheating on SATs; the way the boys treat girls, etc. This just isn't the way to fix those problems but it appears marketing wanted something it could point to during the summer tours.

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I think you need to take more meds. Do you honestly think a PR dept at a school would tell parents to go on DCUM and write positive things about a school? Or would then use them on student tours? I realize that people on here (no offense to Jeff) think DCUM is the center of the universe but the reality is it's not.

I must be out of the loop because I never got the email. The only time the school "asks" us to do something is to forward names of boys who might be open to coming to an admissions session.

THAT'S IT.

Believe what you want but there is no diabolical plan. The OP was truly expressing his experience. You just don't want to accept that the parent and child could have had a good experience.

While I truly cannot tell if OP was sincere or not bc I don't have a Landon boy myself, it is absolutely commonplace at some schools for their development offices or admissions departments to reach out to particularly involved and happy parents to write pro-school entries on dcum forum, so back off the meds comment. Obviously no one at your school ever approached you to do this kind of behind the scenes entry, but I assure you others have been asked.

[Anonymous]

This is so pathetic.