Landon Dance

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a general rule, Schools should not permit outside students (without an advance, specific request from a student and the approval of the School) to a dance. In any case, it is likely not wise to throw the doors wide open.

The idea is to have kids from other schools. Landon decided to do something about these kids while other schools might not. When I went to high school NO PARENT supplied booze and sat in their house while kids drank. NO girls thought date rape drugs were funny .........was I popular? yes- never saw the local phenomena of girl parents hosting and serving to attract the boys. Or allowing their homes to become animal house parties ....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a general rule, Schools should not permit outside students (without an advance, specific request from a student and the approval of the School) to a dance. In any case, it is likely not wise to throw the doors wide open.

Not permitting outside students is a little harder to do if you are a single sex school. Some schools do invite other schools but then require an advance list of attendees.

[Anonymous]

PP 9:30. It is not new that 'other schools' have dances and invite kids from other schools. Landon didn't invent that outreach. What they did do is fail to plan and properly supervise a wide open dance. What must their insurance carrier think?
Not only is this a poor decision, it is a wide open liability.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP 9:30. It is not new that 'other schools' have dances and invite kids from other schools. Landon didn't invent that outreach. What they did do is fail to plan and properly supervise a wide open dance. What must their insurance carrier think?
Not only is this a poor decision, it is a wide open liability.

9:30 posting. I know kids are invited from other schools and it isn't a new idea. Landon is a boys school. The issue is not a wide open dance but drunk and/or high kids and how Landon dealt with the situation. Those kids could have attended any number of schools and do you think there is immunity from such behavior because a kid is a student at XYZ expensive school? Are the parents classier and have higher standards?

I will state on this forum that I pay in excess of $35,000 per year at one school. The percentage of trashy behavior? Exclusion if not trashy? Kudos to Landon for shutting down the dance. Maybe next time students will self police age mates, man up, and throw them out themselves so everyone else can stay at a dance.

[Anonymous]

The police shut down the dance for Landon.

[Anonymous]

4/18/10 12:25
For the record re my 23:4- post. I am not a Landon staffer. DD attended the dance and I was trying to sort out info as it related to the Landon dance rather than other school hosted events.

[Anonymous]

I don't think the world will come to and end. Clearly they underestimated the social networking amplification effect on this dance, and they'll do better next time. I think it is laudable that they had police on hand, and that the breathalyzing of student drivers was a good precaution. The letter issued by the school seemed candid and reasonable. Kids do drink--the "pregaming" phenomenon is common and scary--and other schools in this area have had similar experiences with open dances being oversubscribed, but Facebook etc. have upped the ante. I have nothing to do with Landon but I think they acted responsibly to fix a flawed process.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where do the nice kids who don't drink and don't go to these parties go to school? This is not meant to be a snarky question. If drinking is ubiquitous at many private and public social events, as the above posters suggest, I want to know where I can send my kids where they will not feel like social misfits if they choose not to socialize in this way, and where they will not feel a lot of peer pressure to drink?

You have kids who drink and kids who don't drink at every school. There is peer pressure to drink among teenagers period. And most kids want to go to parties by the time they are 16 or so. Start having conversations with your child now...about what to do if they're at an event where there's drinking and then later about what to do if they suspect someone who may be driving them has been drinking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Too much time on your hands....

That's right -- I killed only one minute typing up the one sentence I posted. Oh, now what to do with the rest of my ample free time???

Attend etiquette lessons?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Too much time on your hands....

That's right -- I killed only one minute typing up the one sentence I posted. Oh, now what to do with the rest of my ample free time???

Attend etiquette lessons?

You first.

[Anonymous]

Landon offers etiquette classes.

[Anonymous]

It does with holton they even offer ballroom dance!!

[Anonymous]

Gotta be a joke, right? Right??

[Anonymous]

No joke

[Anonymous]

More bad news. Georgetown Prep 4 Landon 3. This is our whole purpose of the school. Unfortunately, the domination continues. Nothing more for us to live for the rest of the year.