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Anonymous
| To the poster that wouldn't let someone merge the other day because they had a Landon sticker on their car? Sadly, that said far more about the type of person YOU are..... |
Anonymous
I don't let in any BMW, any car with a sticker indicating attendance at Landon, UVA, or Duke, any car that indicates participation in lacrosse, or any car with an OBX sticker on it. |
Anonymous
| Goody for you. I'm thrilled to know that such a perfect, holier than thou person lives in our community. You judget people that you have never met by the stickers on their cars? You, I'm sorry to say, are pathetic. |
Anonymous
Why are you responding to trolls who are obviously out to get hackles up? Please just do not reply. |
Anonymous
You put a KKK sticker on your car--you telegraph to the world you are racist. You put a Landon/UVA/Duke sticker on your car--you telegraph to the world you are a douchebag. |
Anonymous
Folks, where is your sense of humor? Did you really take the original merging post and this subsequent one so seriously? I think the poster(s) were just trying to be funny or get a rise. They accomplished both. Personally, I thought the original post was hilarious and not serious. Lighten up. It's what also makes these threads a bit entertaining. |
Anonymous
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I apologize for re-posting this from yesterday, but it was buried under some very long repeating quotes. It is important for people to know that even after leaving Landon, the taunting, harassment, gossiping, and rumor mongering continues years after our departure.
Also, it may be of some interest what types of bullying took place while our son was at Landon. It would happen in the classrooms, in the halls, on the fields, and in the locker room. He was called a bitch and a fag, and people said "I will f**k you up". Comments were made about every move he made all day long. They hounded him all day, every day. They said things to him that would not be tolerated in a Reform School never mind a Prep School. The thugs at Landon decided that he should not be there and they drove us out. For the longest time we thought that it would end, but it didn’t. We knew and know that there are nice boys at Landon and we thought for sure eventually some of the nice boys would stand up and say this is wrong. We believed that eventually someone would say, come with me, let me help you, but that never happened. No one ever had the guts to ever stand up to the bullies, not the students and not the administrators. Landon’s administrators are fully aware this situation at their school and they do nothing to stop it. They actually seem to encourage abuse of certain students as a method of punishment. They use certain students as scapegoats. This method is as old as man himself. Empower the few, intimidate the many, and persecute the minority. It’s the Landon Way. Again, I apologize for repeating the following post from yesterday, but it is important for people to know that long after our son was beaten up and beaten down at Landon that the legacy of harassment even continues today. Speaking of Facebook, several years ago we left Landon because the bullying and flat out aggression was more than our family could handle. Fine right!?!? No, not fine, even today years later we are still being harassed by those monsters at Landon. It used to be harassing telephone calls, then text messages, now it's Facebook. Even when you unfriend a person those Landon thugs will always find an indirect way to get you. We will forever loath the day we first accepted an open-house invitation to tour the Landon campus. |
Anonymous
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"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'm sure that the poster believes that this is a good thing and that they are woefully misunderstood, however it is ridiculous to think that an educational institution cannot be "understood from the outside." Even the use of the word outside--implying an insular community beyond reach--actually speaks more to the culture than anything else said. Every institution, school, community in the world has a culture. Most are not cloaked in such a way that with a little effort wouldn't be totally apparent. I was shocked by how inflammatory the article was actually aside from it's content. I was dismayed that the only people quoted were the parents of the girls and not one quote from any of the boys parents. I wondered why she chose to write the article at all actually. It seemed too personal and she has a huge public forum. It will undoubtably hurt Landon for a long time and maybe that's ok. It's what the Landon community chooses to do at this point moving forward that will be the biggest tell of all. The whole thing just makes me say yuck. |
Anonymous
This is a terrible attitude about a school. It is completely anti-intellectual and appalling from my perspective, as a professor, that any school would take pride in the inability of outsiders to understand another culture. |
Anonymous
care to share what it did say? |
Anonymous
| Yes, care to share what it said? Especially the part about what they did was correct. |
Anonymous
| And, lets not forget the meetings. It was an honest post, thank you. Good luck with those meetings. |
Anonymous
Here is a link to the email that Landon's headmaster sent to its alumni: http://www.wusa9.com/news/PDFS/letter_from_landon_headmaster.pdf And, here is a link to another story about the slampigs affair, which refers to the Upper School head's statement, and claims that the punishment was a two-day in-school suspension: http://www.wusa9.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=102407&catid=158 |
Anonymous
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Too bad these kids weren't expelled in Middle School. There was more than enough opportunity. Refunds and apologies are due to the rest of the student body. More Landon brand damage done.
It is very unfortunate that US head inherited these thugs; they should have been tossed out long ago. |