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[quote=Anonymous]Well, as a former Landon parent, I can tell you that we naively thought it would be different. Had a friend with a son in the level above ours and she raved about it. So we bit and jumped in. What we soon learned is that no one wants to talk about the problems and the friend with the son who convinced us to go? She transferred her son out the year after we arrived. There is a culture there that unfortunately is in-bred and in some cases celebrated. Overt disdain for boys there are scholarship (our son was not on scholarship, but would share stories about how the kids talked about the boys who didn't "pay full freight.") In-fighting between the parents over LAX and sports (whose son is getting preferential treatment over another boy, etc.) With the teachers also serving as the boys' coaches, the line gets muddied over what kind of behavior is overlooked because a particular boy is a superstar athlete. There are undoubtedly some great teachers there, a number we adored, and also some that are only there because of family relationships...teachers who have no business being in a classroom or teaching young boys. Cursing in class in not unusual at all. The list just goes on and on. After a few years of rationalizing and hoping it would get better, we finally gave up, realizing that it was not the kind of environment we wanted for our son long term.  We simply found another school with values that are more closely aligned with our own. [/quote]

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