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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Clearly our experiences at Landon have been totally different or at least our expectations have been different.  Landon is nothing more than an over-priced sports camp.  They don’t have teachers, they have coaches/mentors.  Their instructors in the classrooms are not academicians; they are full-time coaches who have to justify receiving a living wage.  Teachers at Landon say things to the students in the classroom and the halls that might be acceptable for a Roid Rage driven Booby Knight on a basketball court to his players, but certainly not children in their math and science classes.

This idea that Landon provides mentors is the biggest load of crap I’ve ever heard in my life.  First of all if your children have parents, why in the world would they need a mentor?  If your children need a mentor they don’t need Landon, they need new parents.

Speaking of crap it would be good if you stopped lying about the idea that music and arts are equally respected as athletics.  Granted, if you are good at sports and good at the arts you will be respected, but if your primary interests are music and theater, and not sports you will be treated like crap.

Landon students are home schooled.  The classes are only about 45 minutes long.  They are only long enough to review home work.  Most of the day is spent on breaks, playing sports and tormenting physically weaker students.  The only reason Landon graduates any smart and capable students is because they have well educated parents who teach their children and provide travel opportunities or they are affluent enough to hire tutors.  Landon has a pretty campus, but not much learning is actually happening in their classrooms.

I am positive that when the Banfield family founded Landon in 1929, just as the Nazi Party was rising to power that they modeled their school after the Hitler Youth Movement in Germany.  I’d like to know in what year ethnic minorities were first enrolled at Landon? Landon is multicultural today, but it is still operated like a Hitler Youth Camp.  Tell anyone the BIG LIE that they are the Master Race or in Landon’s case Masters of the Universe and gradually they will begin to believe that the big lie is actually true.

Ask around and you'll find Landon students have a very bad reputation locally and Landon graduates have a very bad reputation nationwide.  Why would decent human beings want their children to permanently have the stigma attached to them of having graduated from Landon?  The only rational reason anyone would want their child to graduate from Landon is because they enjoy the show no kindness and take no prisoners Hitler Youth Mentality that is part of the fabric of the Landon experience. 
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No Landon connection here, but jeez what's with all of the negativity. How smart of a parent were you if you thought the school was THAT bad? 1) I doubt Landon is anywhere near what you've said after two other solid Landon parent's opinions which touched on both the pros and cons. 2) It tells alot about your decision making. Don't you think you'd be hinted somewhere in the admission process to turn away from a school which you seem to hate so much? I smell troll.[/quote]

While the comparison with "Hitler Youth" is way over the top, it is unreasonable to assume that everyone's experience is positive.

If you are interested in learning about these schools, listening to the few critics might not be a bad idea. And of course, you have to apply the same sort of filter that you should be using on the favorable reports.

I would expect there's a fair amount of reluctance to admit that after spending $120K you got far less than you expected. Boosters are a "dime a dozen".[/quote]

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