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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fact, ETS cancelled scores for many students at the Holton test site in areas of the Holton Test site where there were no Landon students.  Landon found out who cheated from ETS and went after the perpetrators.  Other schools were informed about irregular test scores, and chose to ignore the cheating of their students.  These are irrefutable facts.  [b]Landon went after the cheaters and punished them.[/b]  Other schools knew some of their students cheated and chose to ignore the events.  [/quote]

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I am not a Landon basher but it wasn't as clean or clear-cut as you make it sound.  In fact, it was the way Landon handled the situation that hurt its reputation and made the situation so much worse, as if the cheating wasn't bad enough.[/quote]

I've always hoped Landon would make it right for the boys (today men) they punished. It must have been like having their hearts cut out. Hopefully, they have since graduated them and welcomed them back as alumni. [/quote]

Inappropriate awarding of the victim mantle.  I'm sure it was painful for the students who cheated and especially those who were expelled.  It could not have happened had they not cheated.  Hopefully they learned from it and it motivated them to do well honestly at the next phase of their education.  I read the big Washingtonian article years ago and of course it was written from the point of view of the cooperating source -- one of the students who was expelled.  Maybe it was 100% accurate, but every school I've ever heard of is more lenient on students who forthrightly admit what they did instead of continuing to lie.  As I recall, the families with kids who were expelled were aggrieved that nobody helped counsel them that their kids would fare better if they came forward and admitted the cheating.  That may reflect what turned out to be an unfortunate ignorance of unwritten "rules" of old school honor code type environments, that sort of outcome is actually fairly standard (significantly harsher punishment for additional lying).  [/quote]

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