Landon article from 7/1/10 Washington Post
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Anonymous
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great kids and families that don't fall in the categories the majority of these comments want to put them in.
Not everyone at Landon is rich and entitled, or flaunts the law, or does anything, but try and be good people. The school wouldn't have survived this long if it was as bad as people want to make it. Landon is a community that offers much on many levels. It is a shame that people will blame the entire system for the flaws of a few. |
Anonymous
| The administration needs to take some action. |
Anonymous
| Returning from a weekend away to report that Landon's reputation extends up and down the eastern seaboard. Consensus is that the school and its parents have failed the boys, the boys are louts and nobody wants their daughters dating a Landon kid. |
Anonymous
| I will be sure to tell me kids how awful they are and all their friends that do service projects, that have stepped helped others, that have contributed to their community just because they attend landon. Because, according to this forum, they are all guilty of being "louts" |
Anonymous
Why would you bother checking this forum out. The best thing Landon parents could do is stop fighting against anonymous posters on random web sites and start taking charge of your school. This is never ever going to stop unless there are meaningful changes at the school. |
Anonymous
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landon_School
Landon boosters wipe the slate clean. Every mention of george huguely, cheating, SAT wiped out of wikipedia entry. You can go back through edit history and see who wipes it it out. |
Anonymous
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you must have a lot of time on your hands if you reading about Landon on wikipedia. I guess your one of the many writers on Wikipedia who wants to smear Landon.
I really wonder why so many adults on here continue to attack a school when its down. |
Anonymous
| Actually, I don't even know how to change something on wikipedia. I was just surprised to see nothing at all about the school's more recent history on wikipedia. I hope Landon's scholarship is more honest than its wikipedia editing. |
Anonymous
| I don't think they can edit away all the google information--the school has been very badly damaged. |
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That is interesting. If you look at the history page, you can see that over the past month, various Wiki contributors have corrected many instances of improper "sanitizing" on the Landon page. I don't have time/interest to do this right now, but I suspect some enterprising muckraker could use a site like WikiScanner to try to track down who is making edits to the Landon page. That could prove embarrassing for the people sanitizing the Wiki page. \ [ETA: I realized after I posted that WikiScanner was really only a two-year database of edit tracking, which ends sometime in 2008, so it won't help here. I'm not sure if there is some other WikiScanner-like website that allows for more recent tracking of Wiki edits. I suppose someone could just manually unmask each IP address listed on the Wikipedia history page, but that will require some effort.] |
Anonymous
wikiscanner, if it is to believed, turns up some pretty interesting and not too surprising editing from the Landon School server. None of it related to the current fiascos. |
Anonymous
| Like I said, no one can get rid of all the Google items. Many articles associated with Landon, specific incidents(yes, like SAT, Duke, GH and Slampigs) and many mentions of administrators. |
Anonymous
| Yet another Landon grad in the news:http://www.thecharlesbronfmanprize.com/2010genser.php |
Anonymous
| The landon US head is leaving to pursue a charity foundation that he started. He's not leaving because of any issue he has with landon; he's a landon alumni and thoroughly loves the school, he's simply pursuing a career outside of education. |