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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^^of course.  And there are many of us. Entitled male privilege is no longer tolerated by most people. That is why we find Landon so objectionable. [/quote]

It would greatly simplify things if Landon would relocate the campus to Augusta, Georgia and have the town zone it as part of Augusta National Golf Club. There isn't anything really wrong with boys' or mens' clubs, so long as it is as rural and backwater as possible. Landon has such a long history of women or minority teachers leaving with disputes or jarring accuses. I have a hard time believing that the pattern is just a string of isolated incidents because there has been such a high number of them for so many years. I also don't believe that the nature of the average school teacher is morally capable of just creating a stir and making up lies about an institution like Landon because they have decided or were compelled to leave. Every teacher or employee there KNOWS Landon has a very confrontational and litigious history when facing anything negative onto the school, and when teachers still decide at their peril to take on Landon for doing things sexist, racist or otherwise wrong it said it all for us as a then minority family at Landon. Landon had some great educators and this is not a statements about the kids at the school. Our son had wonderful friends and we met delightful family friends in Landon parents. I think to cast Landon as a blight and a thug factory is completely unfair. But it is very palpable, very clear and very obvious that the leadership of this school is manning a cave. Ask the wrong question, make someone in a position of power at that school a little uncomfortable -- especially if you are a person of color or ethnicity -- and start the egg timer. Suddenly you don't hear back from teachers when your kid is struggling in a class. Then you don't get emails confirming your financial aid renewal forms are in, or any financial aid notices. Then you don't get a renewal contract for your kid to attend the next year, or any returned phone calls from the school officials when your son comes home asking if he is enrolled next year. In sum, my son was an average kid with average grades. He did sports each semester on school teams and loved his friends. There were no discipline problems with our son. We attended every event and volunteered for every event offered. We did not participate in the capital campaign because we could not afford to. I made one comment to a teacher about missed homework not being communicated to us as parents which impacted our son's final semester grade which also was not well taken and was escalated to the school deans and headmaster. I had one follow on meeting with a school official and politely repeated my concerns and the official who had a Landon lawyer present thanked me and said he would be back to me. That was the last we ever heard from him or anyone else in a leadership capacity at Landon.

I thought carefully about posting this, but after a lot of consideration believe it is fair to present to new Landon parents. I do feel for the school to have a former student behavior repeated years later, and as some other posters noted every school has a sad problem with a kid who made mistakes in life. But Landon has very deep institutionalized problems that are not a part of this new century.[/quote]

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