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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do not understand the issue people have with Landon. It looks like they are definitely moving in the right direction with investments across their campus structurally. Their curriculum and teachers are on par with the top schools in the area.  Is it because they only admit a limited number of upper school boys each year and people are mad because their DS did not get admitted?[/quote]

People have an issue with Landon because it has a decades old reputation of fostering a culture of toxic masculinity, bullying, racism, jock-dominance, anti-LBGQA, etc. This is not a recent development. It’s not a situation wherein Landon has be faulted for failing to become adequately “woke.” This has been its reputation for decades and the school has done nothing to alter the culture or even the narrative. It can be tricky at any single-sex boys’ school to avoid a culture of toxic masculinity, but many other boys’ schools in the area at least have excellent academics to off-set some of the other issues, but Landon doesn’t offer excellent academics either. My son plays sports at a big three school (with an excellent athletic program) and he says that while kids disagree about which other schools are good/bad, everyone hates Landon. Or more specifically, no one likes the kids from Landon because they are always jerks. I’m sure there must be some nice kids there, but I bet they are pretty lonely and miserable. [/quote]

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