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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The benefit of forgiving them and letting them off the hook so to speak is the school and everyone involved would equally be freed from the curse of this event.

Many years have passed. Every time it comes up all parties are hurt all over again. It's time to let the school and everyone involved to heal.

The prudent thing to do would be to stop standing on ceremony and to let the healing begin.  It would be great if Mr. Armstrong could facilitate this healing process during the last year of his tenure. [/quote]

Well, you sound like a kind and compassionate person.  But to the extent you are asking for what would amount to the school saying it made a mistake in expelling the two students for a serious honor violation, I just can't imagine that happening.  If nothing else because they might worry about the message to current students.  If the resolution you contemplate is something more private like inviting the two alums to feel welcome at alumni events and consider themselves part of the greater Landon family, perhaps something like that is possible.  (Although I'd really assume the actually students have emotionally moved on -- it's been 11 years at this point.)[/quote]

The message it would send would beautiful, honorable, inspiring, and emancipating. The offenses were the same, but the punishments were different. All of the boys were in crisis mode. The punishments were not dealt out based the offenses committed, but how they reacted while their worlds were collapsing around them. The punishments were different and Landon will never be free and respected until this mistake is corrected.   Prove that the honor code is valid.  Prove that leaders and institutions can make mistakes. Prove that as an institution they can right this wrong. Prove to their students they no longer need to bear the burden of this past mistake. Free all of the students who were involved.

It was handled poorly, that's not a sin, it was a mistake. Admit it, correct it and be free of it![/quote]

I don't want to pour salt in the wound (because it sounds like you were somehow caught up in this directly), but I think honestly all people really remember is that a bunch of kids from one particular school cheated on the SATs.  That's the thing that's given Landon the relatively lasting black eye.  Only the insiders (or people who take the trouble to re-read the Washingtonian article) remember the subsidiary controversy about whether it was fair to give a harsher punishments to the kids who didn't know enough/get good enough advice (or whatever) to come in and confess before they were accused.[/quote]

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