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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To pp:  thanks for providing the necessary context. I had my suspicions a out OP. now he (or she because I doubt it was alum who started this unbalanced thread) is busted. [/quote]

I am OP - I am an alum, not a parent. Not sure how to prove it to you guys b/c this board always reverts to name calling and "prove it" BS.

I spent 8 years at the school - and when I was there it had some of the best teachers I have ever had (Murray, Sorkin, Swinehart, Mora, DocBrock, Farnstroms) including college and grad school.

But lax jock culture dominated then and it seems that it still too much today. I also witnessed in my era some truly abhorent and awful lax culture behavior certainly not discouraged by Coach B. The reverence to Lax players and coach in my era reminds me of how D-1 football players must be treated at placed like Ohio State - except there's no TV money at stake here so school must know that many parents send their kids to Landon for the lacrosse and therefore lacrosse is a tuition revenue and admissions yield source for them

There are certainly more facets to the school beyond lacrosse and my OP did not say otherwise if you bothered to read it.

I guess it just bugs me that a school chooses to place the LAX emphasis in the paragraph of an email blast to alums where it is touting college admits - in what seems to be a good year for admits.

I cant think of elite DC schools like STA, Sidwell, GDS, Maret, Potomac writing that same paragraph.

Landon has come a long way from the Dowd, NYT, LAX scandal days but still has a way to go.

We can agree to disagree. 
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