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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Landon's open house was packed and I was impressed with the middle school. I wish this merit scholarship was available for middle school applicants

It was a surprised to see the Middle School Head was A) a woman B) Came from a Friends school from NYC and Harvard educated as well

[b]Maybe Landon is changing after all.[/b] [/quote]

Yeah, right.  Fantasy sex leagues, teenage drinking, SAT cheating, abuse/murder, etc.[/quote]

All off campus by the way - the Landon campus is the only boys school to have escaped the scourge of pedophile teachers and gun toting students on campus.  Not to mention alum who cheat one another and their school in business dealings conducted on campus. [/quote]

Well, the SAT scandal was technically "off campus". But, it was in an academic environment a few miles down the road at Landon's "sister school".

Some of the criticism is unfounded. But the SAT cheating seemed to me to be reflective of the environment at the school and/or the character of the boys at the school.[/quote]

How certain are you that only Landon boys were cheating in the inadequately proctored room at Holton?  We know that only one school disciplined its students for cheating, but if you think that only Landon boys cheated I've got an $888 million dollar parcel of land by the Grosvenor Metro station to sell you.[/quote]

You're right. We don't know what other boys cheated that day or any other day.

But we do know that the Landon boys cheated and that they planned to cheat if they could.

When they saw the "inadequately proctored"  room they were going to take the test in one said, "This is perfect".

Perfect for what? Perfect for respecting their own school's Honor Code. Perfect for doing their best on the test? Or perfect for cheating?

I guess your defense is that others did it too.

And what about the post-incident behavior of Landon administrators and board members in regards to this?

If I were you, I'd let conversation of this fade into the past. You have a losing case.

The Duke lacrosse players were found innocent. Landon had nothing to do with Y. Love's death. But the SAT scandal is different especially given who these kids were. This one sticks and it stings.

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Whatever you say.  Every parent must decide for themselves which school to trust their son to.  I'm most troubled by incidents that reflect a failure of the school per se (such as hiring pedophiles  or allowing fire arms on campus) as opposed to the failing of students or alum away from campus.  I suppose there is an argument that school a person attends/attended contributes to their character and should therefore be somewhat accountable for the acts of students off campus or after graduation, but that is a lot more nebulous that the very direct obligation of a school to protect students on campus.  I have enough confidence in my ability as a parent to not have to cede responsibility for character building to the school, but I can't possibly protect my child against the predator in their midst during the school day.

I think it is helpful for people who read these forums to understand the track record of area schools on all these issues.  The facts don't sting, they are the facts and we shouldn't hope the facts fade away.  Even though it happened more than a decade ago, it is worth knowing that in 2002 a dozen Landon boys got caught cheating on the SAT.  Some may even find it relevant that the UVA lacrosse player who brutally murdered his girl friend attended Landon for four years or that one of the Duke lacrosse players who was falsely accused of rape attended Landon. It's fair to take these issues up with Landon and you can't do so if you don't know about the issue.  Schools should be prepared to speak to their role in the development of bad apples as well as the successful alum.

Likewise, parents would probably want to know that Georgetown Prep, Sidwell and the Cathedral Schools have all had scandals involving school officials who molested children.  The details on in threads on this forum and it is fair for parents to ask what these schools are doing to prevent a reoccurrence - it doesn't' serve anyone well to bury the story or hope it fades.  Schools should be prepared to speak to how they failed to protect students entrusted to them.

Without these threads I wouldn't know about the gun incidents at STA and Prep. the rogue Sidwell counselor, the mean girls at NCS and all the other "scandals" that you won't hear about at open house.  Does any of this stuff matter in selecting a school?  Decide for yourself, but don't try to hid information from those who come here looking for information they can't find elsewhere.[/quote]

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