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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No ... no dog in the fight at all. Just know the story and it seems unfortunate for all parties involved. It's an albatross in which hangs around the necks of the school, its legacy, and its students.

Why if you have the power to free yourself of a curse like that would you not do it?

Simple say in reflect we recognize the situation way handled poorly and we want to correct it. We have your grades from when you attended Landon. Please provide us with grades from other high schools you attended. We will honor those grades and graduate you from Landon.

Very simple and done. Those individuals are returned to good standing with their Landon Brothers and in time most of this unpleasant event will be forgotten. [/quote]

But you are assuming the school thinks they did something wrong.  My guess is that they think they got worked by an unfair article carrying water for a disgruntled family, and regret only the publicity, not their underlying decision.  Also, who is to say the affected guys would even want what you suggest?[/quote]

If they got "worked" it was only because they made a mistake and then refused to recognize their folly. The mistake of treating one offense as two different events then subjecting the participants to two different punishments was a mistake. This folly was committed by an entirely different administration. Mr. Armstrong does not need to own this. No ... far from it; he has the power to correct it. Recently, President Obama awarded the Congressional Medal ot Honor to several members of the armed forces whose gallantry in battle had been overlooked because of ethnicity in past wars and Major League Baseball has retired #24 because of segregation in baseball before Jackie Robison.

People and institutions make mistakes. In this case Landon for some reason used a double standard. You can spin it anyway you want, but when you peel back all the layers of this story the facts remain that all of the boys committed an expellable offense but that punishments were not applied equally. To the best of my knowledge there have not been any other situations like this at Landon where some students were expelled and some were not for the same offense. This is a unique event and it would not open the genies bottle to a landslide of other complaints.

Like the US Government and Major League Baseball, The Landon School should admit in this situation they employed a double standard and then make it right. [/quote]

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