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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the PR department is hard at work.  My son's excelling at his school; would I sit down and write about it and share it with ya'll on a Thursday night?  No, way.  I have a life and 1000 other things to do as the school year comes to a close.  This is a "set" piece done at the suggestion of marketing.  Landon has a lot of problems - the LAX environment; the Duke mess; the ethics messes; the history of cheating on SATs; the way the boys treat girls, etc.  This just isn't the way to fix those problems but it appears marketing wanted something it could point to during the summer tours.[/quote]\

I think you need to take more meds. Do you honestly think a PR dept at a school would tell parents to go on DCUM and write positive things about a school? Or would then use them on student tours? I realize that people on here (no offense to Jeff) think DCUM is the center of the universe but the reality is it's not.

I must be out of the loop because I never got the email. The only time the school "asks" us to do something is to forward names of boys who might be open to coming to an admissions session.

THAT'S IT.

Believe what you want but there is no diabolical plan. The OP was truly expressing his experience. You just don't want to accept that the parent and  child could have had a good experience. [/quote]

While I truly cannot tell if OP was sincere or not bc I don't have a Landon boy myself, it is absolutely commonplace at some schools for their development offices or admissions departments to reach out to particularly involved and happy parents to write pro-school entries on dcum forum, so back off the meds comment.  Obviously no one at your school ever approached you to do this kind of behind the scenes entry, but I assure you others have been asked. 
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