Anonymous wrote:sorry three-one hour breaks. The middle break is a bit longer but includes time for lunch.

I think you are a little confused. I am a Landon parent and there are not three one hour breaks.

For freshman, there is mandatory study hall built into the schedule. Landon schedule is an 8 day schedule so you do not have the same classes every day. Schools starts at 8:05 and goes to 3:15. Each class block is 45 minutes. There is break built in from 10:05 to 10:30. US lunch is 12:25 to 1:35. During lunch is when clubs meet or you can also meet with teachers. So a freshman would have 2 and 25 minutes free if they used all this time. Most of the boys do not do HW during the short break. It is helpful during lunch to do some HW especially if you are on a team (which for freshman is mandatory for the Fall)

The mandatory study hall goes away in sophomore year. In junior year, you can drop arts as there is only a 2 year requirement. However, advanced biology and chemistry classes area double period with a lab, so most do not get that extra time. In senior year, if you do not take a science with a lab, you could gain an extra free but you still have to take 5 classes.

Also-there were not 16 kids that went Ivy last year. There were 10. 5 to Penn, 3 to Cornell 1 to Brown and 1 to Princeton. No one went to stanford.

I don't get how such a long amount of break time is possible? What are arrival and departure times for the school day ??

sorry three-one hour breaks. The middle break is a bit longer but includes time for lunch.

Three hours plus breaks everyday to do honework? How is that possible?

My son just started school at Landon. We applied to Prep and Landon and was admitted to both. We loved Prep but thought Landon was a better choice for our son. No reflection on Prep at all.

There are several excellent ps choices in the area. Agree with another poster that they all have some good and bad. There is a different lid for every pot, so to speak.

One thing we love about Landon is they have 3 hour plus breaks during the day for kids to do their homework. Teachers are also available during this time. Their goal is for the students to have the majority of the homework done BEFORE they leave school.

FYI, Landon does and excellent job academically. They have a steady stream of Ivy's every year. They sent 16 from the recent graduating class. Add a few kids that went to MIT, Standford, G-Town and other top universities.

Anonymous wrote:There's a strong anti-Catholic bias on DCUM.

+1

And watching your dear sons be humiliated socially and in athletics year after year leaves deep and lasting wounds. Some never recover.

If you strive for mediocrity then either will be fine.

My sons went to GP and got a great education both academically and socially. Some of their closest friends went to Landon and I would say the academics are comparable. Humanities seems to be stronger at Prep while Math/Science stronger at Landon. Really the biggest difference is the spiritual growth we desired from Prep.

Landon is a better academic school than Prep. Just look at its college placement the past 5 years. Sends more kids to the Ivy's than Prep does.

STA is a much better academic school than Landon.

Prep is probably the strongest athletic school out of the 3 followed by Landon, then STA.

Landon is slightly better academically. It draws from a wider pool of boys, many of who filter in from the lower school, which is a better school than nearly all of Prep's typical feeder schools. Prep has better athletic facilities and a religious focus not found at Landon. A deligent and hard-working boy can do well at either school, as long as he avoids the rowdy types who sometimes get into trouble at both places.

GP and Landon are mediocre private schools from the academic point of view.

There's a strong anti-Catholic bias on DCUM.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are GP and Landon viewed so negatively on this board? Also, how does Bullis compare with other co-ed independent schools?

You couldn't sort through all the agendas on this forum if you had the rest of the year to do so. Expecting a candid and true response to your question on why they are viewed negatively is unrealistic.

Every school has it's boosters and detractors. You would be better off talking to someone that you know who is qualified to give you unbiased input based on their own experience.

Reportedly, Bullis has made great strides recently. But they were starting from way behind the pack. So where they are depends on what other schools you are comparing them to.

Good luck getting any fair, intelligent responses to your questions from this pack.

+10,000

Anonymous wrote:Why are GP and Landon viewed so negatively on this board? Also, how does Bullis compare with other co-ed independent schools?

You couldn't sort through all the agendas on this forum if you had the rest of the year to do so. Expecting a candid and true response to your question on why they are viewed negatively is unrealistic.

Every school has it's boosters and detractors. You would be better off talking to someone that you know who is qualified to give you unbiased input based on their own experience.

Reportedly, Bullis has made great strides recently. But they were starting from way behind the pack. So where they are depends on what other schools you are comparing them to.

Good luck getting any fair, intelligent responses to your questions from this pack.

Why are GP and Landon viewed so negatively on this board? Also, how does Bullis compare with other co-ed independent schools?