<p>Northeastmom (re: fallout from SAT cheating)…it may have to do with the Honor Code at Landon. At public school, the issue of cheating on the SAT is with the College Board. At Landon, there was the issue of breaking the Honor Code on top of that.</p>
<p>Three incidents in 7 years? Deplorable as these incidents may be, I think you’d be hard-pressed to find any HS in the country that didn’t have 3 scandalous incidents over a 7year period</p>
<p>woody, exactly my point, although it seems that Landon is a very small school. Then again, these students might be under more pressure than average to “make the grade”. Making the grade, has nothing to do with this Yeardley Love’s death.</p>
<p>I also think the SAT incident is unrelated to the current incident. Different people involved and entirely different situations and circumstances. The fact the boys went to the same high school is not a big deal.</p>
<p>Yes, it’s extremely small – less than 70 in each graduating class.</p>
<p>Saw this post on another forum on this tragedy and how the alleged murderer was not used to not getting what he wanted or suffering consequences of his actions - so true…</p>
<p>“There is a Chinese proverb that wealth does not pass three generations: the first generation works extremely hard, and while the second generation may see the value of hard work, the third generation is pampered and protected from the experience of failure and struggle, so the family wealth is spent. As the worlds population has doubled in my lifetime, imo, we have become surrounded by more Third Generation wastrels - selfish, demanding, and angry when life is not provided on a silver platter. Do your kids a favor: Love them, but let them fall down - let them take entry level jobs - show them how to save for what they want - help them respect the reality of hard work.”</p>
<p>I think the purpose of the article was to show that at this particular prep school (Huguely’s) if you are on the Lacrosse team and break the honor code you will receive special treatment not afforded the non-Lacrosse honor code breakers. Ten boys were at the cheating table, 9 boys (8 Lacrosse players, 1 non-Lacrosse) passed and changed their SAT answers, while 1 boy (non-Lacrosse) passed answers between 2 others but didnt change his answers. Eight boys (all Lacrosse players) were allowed to remain at the school while the 2 who were expelled didnt play Lacrosse. Interestingly, of the cheating 10 only one student didnt change his test answers …being guilty of passing answers between 2 others but he was one of the 2 expelled.</p>
<p>That’s just gross.</p>
<p>Yes, TutuTaxi, you and MD Mom and 3bysmom (and a few others) got the point I was trying to make by posting the article. </p>
<p>While there are those who refuse to entertain the possibility that such factors might have played a part in what made this boy what he is, I don’t agree with that narrow line of thinking.</p>
<p>This Huguely was fifth generation. New Rule - it stops with “the third.” Anything further is just too self important.</p>
<p>I vote for stopping the name thing long before the 5th generation but that’s just me.</p>
<p>A friend of mine - not Chinese - observed the third generation thing another way. Visit a country club on a Sunday afternoon. You will probably observe a grandfather who thinks it’s a waste of money, the 2nd genaration who thinks he “has arrived” and the third genaration hanging out in a Metallica t-shirt.</p>
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<p>I remember the old “crime of passion” defense - ie you come home and find your wife in bed with another man and you kill him - a lesser offense than murder.</p>
<p>BUT do you think someone who has no history of violence or extreme anger could be provoked to murder someone with their bare hands? It would be very interesting to know how many people who committed murder in a state of extreme anger had no prior history of violence or extreme anger. Could any of us really just “snap”? I don’t think so, but I don’t know.</p>
<p>Another interesting article about the lacrosse culture.</p>
<p>[Yeardley</a> Love Slaying: Is Lacrosse’s Close Culture Complicit?](<a href=“http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/05/05/yeardley-love-slaying-is-lacrosses-close-culture-complicit/]Yeardley”>http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/05/05/yeardley-love-slaying-is-lacrosses-close-culture-complicit/)</p>
<p>Don’t be too quick to blame the lacrosse culture, the prep school or the privileged lifestyle… none of that explains this Gettysburg student who murdered another last April.
[Murder</a> trial set for April - Evening Sun](<a href=“http://www.eveningsun.com/ci_14859291?source=most_viewed]Murder”>http://www.eveningsun.com/ci_14859291?source=most_viewed)</p>
<p>he is set to cop an insanity defense.</p>
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<p>My real estate broker husband told me a saying he had heard in his business: </p>
<p>The first generation makes it.
The second generation enjoys it.
The third generation loses it.</p>
<p>Not really getting the point of the article on the Lacrosse culture…being wealthy, having friends and family who live and breathe lacross…makes you more likely to be murdered? or to commit murder?</p>
<p>Is there a culture in any legitimate sport that in any way contributes to its athletes commiting murder? I know that some schools and/or sports have big drinking cultures that may possibly contribute, I suspect that some athletes may get into more physical altercations than say, interior design majors…but murder or serious bodily assault?</p>
<p>I thought there was something else telling in the SAT article. The lacrosse players were confronted, according to the school’s Honor Code, and given a chance to turn themselves in. None of the 8 went to the other 2 involved–while knowing full well that when the 8 were questioned the names of the other 2 would come up. No, only the lacrosse players were tipped off that their cheating was known. Then they were given a lesser penalty because they turned themselves in. So, the lesson learned was “if you are a lacrosse player, we’ll watch your back. If you’re not, we don’t owe you anything.” And the school’s actions condoned that. </p>
<p>As for the “if this were a public school, all that would have happened was that the scores would be canceled,” it’s not the case at the public schools I’m familiar with. You get caught cheating on the PSAT or SAT, you get disciplined and the reason for the discipline is spelled out on your record.</p>
<p>Re: The Jamie Stiehm article :</p>
<p>The author presented zero evidence to suggest that the lacrosse culture contributed in any way to this event. I’m not saying it did or it didn’t, as I know nothing of “lacrosse culture,” but this article did absolutely nothing to educate me about it.</p>