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[quote=Anonymous]Maybe. Or maybe I posted my positive review in another thread and just ended up here by accident.

What’s odd is that I googled the school today just to find the new high school address—and instead of going straight to the website, the top result was this old thread, with a negative quote highlighted. I clicked out of curiosity, realized it was from 2021, and saw I'd been here before. My original positive review is now gone (or maybe it's in a different thread).

While searching, I noticed the comment claiming the positive posts are fake and only the negative ones are “real.” That struck me as strange—because I was actually feeling the opposite.

Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if other positive reviews are showing up the same way I did—because Google is surfacing this thread, and parents like me, just trying to find next year’s calendar or the new school address, feel compelled to respond.

But that raises the question: how are the negative reviews getting here? Are former Linder parents randomly googling their old school in July, stumbling on a four-year-old thread, clicking through to page 6, and feeling inspired to post… even though they’re supposedly happy with their new school?

It feels both random and oddly deliberate. And the timing is sus—school isn’t in session, and it’s not peak enrollment season.

It kinda gives: marketing team from another school trying to steer people away.

I mean, who honestly believes that a school doing well enough to open a new high school three times its size doesn't have satisfied families? Who even thinks that?

You might say: “I hated the school. I didn’t like the teachers, the noise, the kids.” Okay. But to jump from that to “all the positive reviews are fake”? That’s a stretch.

Linder has something like a 90% re-enrollment rate—and they’re expanding. They don’t even prioritize long-term stays. They actively support transitions back to public school when kids are ready. So that retention rate isn’t about contracts or commitments—it’s about performance and preference.

I don’t even think they advertise. It’s mostly word of mouth and referrals from doctors. A judge even ordered placement there in at least one case.  Plus everything posted here about accreditation and college acceptance is misinformed.  Ask Google.  Ask Chat GPt or whichever search/AI platform you trust.  You don't need working moms/dads to tell you the answer to this.  You can look it up in 2 seconds.

But I digress.

Also about the “wild kids” comment: There was a stabbing at our public high school last year. I walked into the office one day to pick up my daughter, and a kid was in the hallway brayed like a donkey at full volume. “Wild” kids are everywhere.  Hopefully you found a school that prioritizes quiet.  That's what's really great about this area -- there's a school for everyone here.[/quote]

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