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SAM2
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| How do both teams get "banners" in 2005, 2009, and 2010? Is lacrosse one of those everyone-gets-a-trophy sports? |
Anonymous
| omg landon, wtf is it with lacrosse. Who f*&kn' cares? Seems like it's done a lot more bad than good for your school. |
Anonymous
Correction. Georgetown Prep has been this area's most dominant lacrosse program in the latter half of the decade. Essentially they've been consistently the best in recent memory. |
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UVA and school culture:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/liz-seccuro/a-history-of-violence-not_b_592208.html |
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Landon should be very proud of all its lacrosse banners. Maybe they should hang pictures of their lacrosse stars on a wall next to the mugshots of their other students who are making the news.
In all seriousness, I feel there isn't a silver bullet here. I agree these n'ere-do-wells hardly speak for the school as a whole. All schools have bad eggs. I also agree that most of the problems with these kids started at home or elsewhere away from Landon. However, there is a culture at the school which appears ineffective in battling these problems, and that itself is a problem. Landon's contention that they excel at molding young boys into impressive young men is certainly being tested. Landon is rightfully considered an excellent school, both academically and athletically. Still, these ongoing distractions have got to be stopped. Do I think Landon is responsible for molding these kids into miscreants? Absolutely not. But I would be cautious about sending my kid to a school which right now seems to be caught in a terrible (and seemingly protracted) public relations mess. |
Anonymous
The way the IAC sets up, there is a regular season winner and the IAC tournament winner. If you win the tournament, but don't win the regular season, you share the IAC title with the regular season winner (or vice versa). When Prep and Landon have shared the title, the Washington Post has, in recent years, ranked Prep #1 and Landon #2 (the vast conspiracy continues) |
Anonymous
| the fact that this story has made national news and has caused 36 pages of forum comments is absurd. Maureen Dowd has published a column that almost any person with any sense of basic knowdledge could publish. Landon does not need this nor does the New york times. |
Anonymous
| She has made the repuatation of a handful of immature boys awful and their reputation among their classmates has now diminshed too. How do you think the other 97% of the school feels when they cant walk around now without being labeled as attending a terrible run school when really Landon is a community that so many teenagers would be lucky if they could be in that environment because it shapes the students into men of honor and civility. teenagers do dumb things, there is no reason Dowd should have made this into national news and put a lot of Landon affiliates in a state of emergency |
Anonymous
| Dowd's column was over the top. But the school's problems are not solely the result of that column. |
Anonymous
| How was Dowd's column over the top? I thought it was well-written and informative. The tone of the column was entirely appropriate. |
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Thanks for the info. I had no idea. Is Wikipedia right that there are only six teams in the IAC competing for those banners? |
Anonymous
| Maureeen Dowd didn't give bad reputations to the Slampig group. They did that to themselves. They have had bad reputations way before they designed the fantasy league. By doing nothing about these boys, the school took a poor risk. |
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The boys were disciplined and given counseling.
Is that nothing? Landon is getting its run of bad news, and this year old story made public in Maureen Dowds column months later suggests that someone has an interest in looking for any and all warts it can find. Of course Landon isn't perfect any more than any other school or institution is perfect. But, it has successfully been educating young men for many years, and has a high degree of success in doing so. |
Anonymous
Yep. In football there are only 5 teams. Georgetown Prep had become dominant and in 2004, led by Landon, the IAC kicked out Prep in football. Prep has the most boys-- a significant advantage over Landon and STA and a huge advantage over the co- Ed schools in the IAC. The rumor on the IAC street is that Landon wants to kick Prep out of the conference in possibly all sports because of the enrollment issue. |