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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's no reason to do it publically or to include the press. Just do it quietly and let the new seep out slowly over time.

Outsiders do care because they were those kids were children who made mistakes which resulted in their lives being ripped apart. As if that punishment were not bad enough, they also have had to live with the injustice that several of their classmates were allowed to graduate and remain in good standing while those who were expelled remain outcasts.

There is no logical reason why these individual should for the rest of their lives suffer the stigma of being outcasts when the school for complicated reasons chose to punish some students more harshly than others.

Until this unfortunate page in Landon's history is resolved it will never be forgotten. It will forever frighten prospective students away until everyone applying for acceptance can be assured that the ol' boy system at the school has been dismantled and all students will be treated equally in the future.

A new Board of Directors has recently been elected. They can begin anew by quietly correcting this mistake made by an earlier generation of Directors. [/quote]

A few points:

1.  It really does not seem credible that you are an "outsider."  If not a family member of someone affected, you sound at least like a friend of the family (and my bet is on family).  And you seem pretty knowledgeable about Landon.

2.  Although you say "there's only one way to view the event," that means YOU only see it in one way.  And there's nothing wrong with being so passionate about a position that you cannot admit you could be wrong.  But you need at least to recognize that other people CAN and DO view the event differently -- that is the reality of the situation, as this thread shows.

3.  Again, as it has been pointed out, to the extent the issue still harms Landon, most people on the outside just remember the fact of the cheating and not the more internal controversy about different punishments.

4.  The use of "outcasts" in the sense of lifetime "outcasts" bearing a "stigma" seems a little overheated.  It's 10+ years ago and everyone is out of college.

5.  Pragmatically, a new board is not going to step in and second-guess what was, in the last analysis, a discretionary decision by a prior Head of School/Board.

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