Maureen Dowd column on Landon

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Anonymous wrote:I have a fourteen year old son. Do you think I should tell him about the details of this article and use it as a teaching moment or should I just talk about about (once again) respecting women etc and not mention this episode at Landon?

Yes -- talk to him about it, encourage him to read it. This is a teachable moment. I asked my 16 y.o. .son, "What would you think if these boys were rating your sister?"

[Anonymous]

Having raised two sons that went to Landon, all I can say that it is an excellent institution that produces many exceptional individuals. The appalling actions of George Huguely should not mar Landon's reputation as an institution.

Landon graduates excel outside of school. I've heard some schools like GDS thrown around this forum a lot, and I'll say it flat out. Landon is a better school than GDS. Most of my sons' friends from Landon are a few years out of college and many of them are making over $100,000 a year or are attending top tier graduate programs. I find it ironic that many of their Sidwell and GDS counterparts are taking 5+ years to finish college, struggling to find jobs, or are wasting their lives as bartenders and waiters.

Landon is an institution that teaches kids how to excel. It's not an easy education and will never be perfectly understood from the outside.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Having raised two sons that went to Landon, all I can say that it is an excellent institution that produces many exceptional individuals. The appalling actions of George Huguely should not mar Landon's reputation as an institution.

Landon graduates excel outside of school. I've heard some schools like GDS thrown around this forum a lot, and I'll say it flat out. Landon is a better school than GDS. Most of my sons' friends from Landon are a few years out of college and many of them are making over $100,000 a year or are attending top tier graduate programs. I find it ironic that many of their Sidwell and GDS counterparts are taking 5+ years to finish college, struggling to find jobs, or are wasting their lives as bartenders and waiters.

Landon is an institution that teaches kids how to excel. It's not an easy education and will never be perfectly understood from the outside.

haven't we already heard from you?

[Anonymous]

the school gave each of the boys two days of in school suspension.

[Anonymous]

For the fantasy league? Just want to be clear.

[Anonymous]

I cannot imagine that having these boys enrolled at Landon can possibly be worth it now. How stupid can the school be?
They've disregarded students, parents and decent alums.
Why isn't the administration made to answer for this?

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LOL! Enough said.

Anonymous wrote:What do expect from a school whose most famous alum is Maury Povich? They're breeding a lot of rocket scientists over there.

[Anonymous]

Me neither.

Anonymous wrote:I must live a cloistered life -- other than Maury Povich and Topper Shutt, I've never heard of any of those people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Having raised two sons that went to Landon, all I can say that it is an excellent institution that produces many exceptional individuals. The appalling actions of George Huguely should not mar Landon's reputation as an institution.

Landon graduates excel outside of school. I've heard some schools like GDS thrown around this forum a lot, and I'll say it flat out. Landon is a better school than GDS. Most of my sons' friends from Landon are a few years out of college and many of them are making over $100,000 a year or are attending top tier graduate programs. I find it ironic that many of their Sidwell and GDS counterparts are taking 5+ years to finish college, struggling to find jobs, or are wasting their lives as bartenders and waiters.

Landon is an institution that teaches kids how to excel. It's not an easy education and will never be perfectly understood from the outside.

After all, it is not the critic who counts, but the man actually in the arena. He lives a world apart from those weak and timid souls that know neither the thrill of victory nor defeat.

Help me out here - is this post serious or is this a joke? Often when you deal with these kind of fascists satire blends into reality...

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Having raised two sons that went to Landon, all I can say that it is an excellent institution that produces many exceptional individuals. The appalling actions of George Huguely should not mar Landon's reputation as an institution.

Landon graduates excel outside of school. I've heard some schools like GDS thrown around this forum a lot, and I'll say it flat out. Landon is a better school than GDS. Most of my sons' friends from Landon are a few years out of college and many of them are making over $100,000 a year or are attending top tier graduate programs. I find it ironic that many of their Sidwell and GDS counterparts are taking 5+ years to finish college, struggling to find jobs, or are wasting their lives as bartenders and waiters.

Landon is an institution that teaches kids how to excel. It's not an easy education and will never be perfectly understood from the outside.

After all, it is not the critic who counts, but the man actually in the arena. He lives a world apart from those weak and timid souls that know neither the thrill of victory nor defeat.

Help me out here - is this post serious or is this a joke? Often when you deal with these kind of fascists satire blends into reality...

I thought it was too over-the-top to be a serious post. Reads like parody.

[Anonymous]

Most Landon booster posts do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Uh, this is an all boys school ... if they are all virtually alum, how can any trustees by women? Are they wives of alum?

Maybe the parents run the school instead of the boys? (Even after the boys turn 50?)

[Anonymous]

Maureen Dowd should have used this Washington DC suburbs news story as an example of male aggression toward women:

http://silverchips.mbhs.edu/story/1225

[Anonymous]

I sure wish we could name names on this forum. Most of the Landon kids in the class are nice guys.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Having raised two sons that went to Landon, all I can say that it is an excellent institution that produces many exceptional individuals. The appalling actions of George Huguely should not mar Landon's reputation as an institution.

Landon graduates excel outside of school. I've heard some schools like GDS thrown around this forum a lot, and I'll say it flat out. Landon is a better school than GDS. Most of my sons' friends from Landon are a few years out of college and many of them are making over $100,000 a year or are attending top tier graduate programs. I find it ironic that many of their Sidwell and GDS counterparts are taking 5+ years to finish college, struggling to find jobs, or are wasting their lives as bartenders and waiters.

Landon is an institution that teaches kids how to excel. It's not an easy education and will never be perfectly understood from the outside.

I have to call bullshit. I have tons of friends who went to Landon. I know tons of really fine young men who are friends of my sons who go to Landon.

Most of us in community or business leadership positions think of middle aged Landon guys as not too bright, and not too ethical. They are supurb salesman, and developers (read salesman), and (mostly), they can hold their drink and are fun to be around. They can lower your team score on a golf couse. My wife went to Holton (I am a public school boy) and when we had our first of multiple sons, she told me 'they are not gentleman', I want our sons to go to....(the school that most Landon parents didnt get their sons into).

Landon has motivatated parents, and motivated kids. As a general rule, they do believe they are as good as anyone. But as a rule, they are not as smart as the kids or parents at Potomac, or Sidwell, or STA. They have made up for it by being 'a little more aggressive', and letting their alum run the show.

It has ended badly.

The board should be fired. (0 percent of these kids are good. 90 percent of these parents are good.

The 10% run the show, as my wife saw as a 16 year girl at Holton decades ago.

The board should resign. These boys, and these parents, have been disserved by the 10% FOR DECADES.




Lets all cut the crap here