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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love that Landon students take an Ethics course, and that the honor code is taken so seriously there.  The lockers have no locks on them, and I have not heard of a single theft.  As a small example of how ethics is woven into the Landon experience, the Headmaster sent out an email during snowzilla, asking every Landon boy to identify an elderly person in their neighborhood, and shovel out their walk "because it is the right think to do."  [/quote]

That sounds like something Jim Neill would say![/quote]

I loved that message from he Headmaster, Jim Neill during the snowstorm.  Better yet, I loved that when my son read it, without any additional prompting of any kind, he got dressed, got the shovel and asked if we could go out and do something good for someone.

To the other PP who did not get a good message from the admissions process.  All I can say is that I am genuinely sorry to hear that.  Really.  That is not a message that I would have been receptive to either(!).  I can say that the message you describe is definitely not something that I have experienced as a new family/new 6th grade student this year.  The closest I have heard is that there are no "cliques" like at his old school "because everyone looks out for each other."  When I asked my son what it meant to "look out for each other" he told me it meant "you know, mom, if a guy doesn't have anyone to sit with at lunch, you and a friend go over and talk to him."  Yeah, I loved that.  If that's looking out, I'll take it any day![/quote]

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