Inside The Louisiana School With A 100 Percent College Acceptance Rate | TODAY

Year after year, Louisiana is ranked one of the worst states in the country for education, but one school, T.M. Landry College Prep, is trying to change that. TODAY’s Craig Melvin travels to the small and unconventional private school helping once-struggling students get into top universities around the country.
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[@ignacio3219]

Well, this did not aged well

[@Timothee_Chalamet_CMBYN]

Ignacio I went there, i am a C student at best at Stanford right now but continue to work hard. When I went to this school and applied we emphasize on being black and from poverty in essay that we have help writing. we deserve this. We need more black representation! Grades are not everything. While it’s true no one actually have a teaching degree there, thier methods are ahead of anyone’s time. All students participate and I have not seen anyone ever not get an A! All students are in honor roll .This school is great and you ppl are jealous!

[@ignacio3219]

Casey believe me I'm not coming from jealousy, at the end it doesn't matter to me, I'm not from USA, but your experience contrast against several others made by other students there. If they in fact used phisical punishment, and lied to get their students into universities at levels above their true capacities they should be held accountable for that

[@Timothee_Chalamet_CMBYN]

Ignacio if you’re not from the USA then why you so concerned, interested, or why would your opinion even matter? That’s like me like worrying about a school in Kenya rural village or sticking my nose to the business of a small private school in Indonesia town of Bali. That’s just my two cents though 💅🏿💅🏿💅🏿💅🏿💅🏿😳☠️

[@ignacio3219]

Casey haha relax, welcome to the age of the internet I can have an opinion on your school and anyone can avoid it. I have no reason to doubt the NYT article, and I can't be less concerned about the race of the students. If in fact nothing illegal was happening in that school you have nothing to worry about. by the way, for what it sounds the doesn't seem like a "years ahead" model, it looks like a Montessori system or am I wrong?

[@Timothee_Chalamet_CMBYN]

Ignacio you’re not even in this country 🙄. This is as silly as me arguing with someone from Zimbabwe or Guatemala, about thier local school for children, no thanks. Must not be much going on in your country when you on the internet looking at some KZbin video of us. Wish I had that much time to look into small private matters of polish ppl or Costa Ricans 🙄

[@MrRufusRToyota]

You were right for your skepticism.

[@Timothee_Chalamet_CMBYN]

MrRufusRToyota I went there, i am a C student at best at Stanford right now but continue to work hard. When I went to this school and applied we emphasize on being black and from poverty in essay that we have help writing. we deserve this. We need more black representation! Grades are not everything. While it’s true no one actually have a teaching degree there, thier methods are ahead of anyone’s time. All students participate and I have not seen anyone ever not get an A! All students are in honor roll .This school is great and you ppl are jealous!

[@Timothee_Chalamet_CMBYN]

LEGO Meme Machine tell that to all the students that graduated with honor rolls and straight A’s at the elite schools 💅🏿

[@Timothee_Chalamet_CMBYN]

LEGO Meme Machine you must’ve misunderstood. I’m saying tell that to all the students from our school that are now attending elite schools, all students, year after year. Harvard, Yale, Stanford, MIT, growing strong, even now have had a graduating class of mds that cane from our school 💅🏿. If we aren’t a real school then how come we are recognized by the Louisiana school board, we are recognized by all elite schools 💅🏿💅🏿💅🏿. All students got full scholarship, no fake school here good sir, only A students 🙌🏻

[@Timothee_Chalamet_CMBYN]

J C that’s affirmative action, it is the law. There needs to be representation and besides grades there are over 100 other factors but we are all A students to begin with.

[@Timothee_Chalamet_CMBYN]

J C I don’t think you know what affirmative action is, please do some research. You’re face is as solid as brick while writing “lol”.

[@lijunchen5000]

The interviewer was absolutely right when he said they were brainwashed.

[@kevinw.3433]

Lijun Chen no their not my daughter goes there all lies

[@tialopez7306]

My son went there. Everything in the NY Times article is true. And that's why we took him out. The Landrys are sick people.

[@Timothee_Chalamet_CMBYN]

I went there, i am a C student at best at Stanford right now but continue to work hard. When I went to this school and applied we emphasize on being black and from poverty in essay that we have help writing. we deserve this. We need more black representation! Grades are not everything. While it’s true no one actually have a teaching degree there, thier methods are ahead of anyone’s time. All students participate and I have not seen anyone ever not get an A! All students are in honor roll .This school is great and you ppl are jealous!

[@KO-qo4uq]

Casey . Stanford? You just mentioned Harvard when responding to someone else. Which is it?

[@williameddy2826]

K O`CONNER - " CASEY " goes to Harvard in Cambridge , Massachusetts on Monday , Tuesday and Wednesday . Then he flies to Palo Alto , California and goes Stanford on Thursday , Friday and Saturday . ( CASEY is just a troll trying to ridicule blacks in general and Affirmative Action in particular . He wants to discredit Affirmative Action programs and any elite schools who are trying to make their schools more inclusive . )

[@SKsaturn]

I love how this guy is so skeptical about everything they're saying. Even at the end "They sound brainwashed."

[@Timothee_Chalamet_CMBYN]

S K I went there, i am a C student at best at Stanford right now but continue to work hard. When I went to this school and applied we emphasize on being black and from poverty in essay that we have help writing. we deserve this. We need more black representation! Grades are not everything. While it’s true no one actually have a teaching degree there, thier methods are ahead of anyone’s time. All students participate and I have not seen anyone ever not get an A! All students are in honor roll .This school is great and you ppl are jealous!

[@pepper1234ization]

@@Timothee_Chalamet_CMBYN You get an A because they give it to you. You get on the honor roll because they put you there. If you really are from the school (which I highly doubt), you should be able to see the very evident deception. The lack of success of TM Landry students at these prestigious universities is just proof of the lack of education provided. "methods are ahead of anyone's time"? Don't make me laugh. And stop copy pasting this comment everywhere.

[@Timothee_Chalamet_CMBYN]

Cheeze Pizza stop liking your own comments. Black students excelling is making the white man cry. We all got into Ivy League schools, full scholarship and doing well.

[@pepper1234ization]

@@Timothee_Chalamet_CMBYN I don't care if you get into Ivy League colleges. I'm not white (not that it matters). I celebrate with you as you succeed. Implying that you got there fairly is the problem. Stating that the TM Landry educational system is years ahead of other schools is the problem. Not accepting the fact that these two deceived all these students is a problem, and you've got to face the facts.

[@Timothee_Chalamet_CMBYN]

Cheeze Pizza the facts are this is a false story, there are 100 plus students and parents and teachers who say this school is year ahead of its time. All A students.

[@jacoba5988]

"you're not remotely qualified to teach these kids." "Exactly"

[@ElliesFamily]

Lmao 😂

[@Mitzi73]

I am saddened that these kids were victims of unscrupulous people. And saddened for those kids who got college seats taken away from them because of them.

[@kennethuyabeme]

"Feed your kids, house your kids. Don't talk to them about education at all.." With what's come out now, this sounds horrible. The reporter kept saying "brainwashed" too like he knew something was up but just wanted to support them.

[@sophialynn469]

100% acceptance rate into ivy league schools should have been a red flag from the beginning

[@zeezas1241]

Kudos to the interviewer for being skeptical about this Landry school scam. His 4 correspondents aren’t thinking as critically. Shame on a news network for blindly endorsing something like this! Even without full on investigative journalism like the New York Times did, the facts of the situation that were apparent should raise anyone’s suspicion about the legitimacy of this “school”.

[@powderwigwoodenteethmf5037]

Turns out it was a fake school lmao 😂. Fake transcripts too

[@moggedman2097]

Imagine how many much more deserving students were denied entry into Ivy League schools because of TM Landry...

[@YoungCub]

Probably less than 0.001% per school. Any more foolish comments? And "many much more" is not correct grammar.

[@samuellittle1286]

Matt Turner nypost.com/2018/10/17/harvards-gatekeeper-reveals-sat-cutoff-scores-based-on-race/ The real question is how many students were denied nationwide because of the overall program? www.nytimes.com/2017/08/02/us/affirmative-action-battle-has-a-new-focus-asian-americans.html

[@Mark-xw5yt]

@@samuellittle1286 You just sent an article about who harvard sends spam mail to. What does that have to do with denying entry??

[@tylernickels3200]

I don’t appreciate how the other reporters came at him for his skepticism

[@jayrollo1352]

I KNOW RIGHT!!!

[@xmuta]

People are so desperate to believe there are super smart black kids that they will overlook anything to believe a lie.

[@PeteS_1994]

S L There are super smart Black kids though, just like there are super smart kids of every race???? Super smart people are not the majority.

[@iheartlol90]

Well, I sorta understand them because people are taught to conform and not question from a lot of sources, taught that if they do they are bigots or racists, etc. And there are actual bigots and racists who are bad people but the people who solely question something and get called out for it is what the problem is sometime.

[@user-ky8ym7le9m]

Aged like milk

[@ChiGal77]

Watching this video and hearing that they don't want parents involved, 12hr days, no teacher for trig...ha!, It's so obvious that there was something fishy going on.

[@user-qg3wm4eh6n]

ChiGal77 studying out of a math book from MIT. Is that what I heard? “We just basically teach each other.” What!?!! It’s so obvious this is a scam!

[@ElliesFamily]

Exactly. I had my eye rolling with how unrealistic that was. We’ve had study groups for these courses and you cannot simply teach each other when you yourselves have no idea about the complexities of these concepts. It’s like the blind guiding the blind. An expert a.k.a. teacher has to step in. This is such a joke.

[@acuff86]

Craig called bullshet.

[@jjscott08]

Lorenzo A he sure did!

[@jayrollo1352]

he did. screw tm landry

[@tomkat4480]

Why is he dressed like Ronald McDonald?

[@Alltherestofus]

Alan O Brien 🤦🏾‍♀️

[@ajc8815]

No sports? No extracurriculars? No school-wide events like proms? No teachers? In a warehouse? Seems shady.

[@Jeanne90275]

Another fraud...

[@darienford860]

That school is a cult, none of this is legal

[@davepop8192]

Very cultish

[@haileymishler3018]

See he was right and everyone was doggin him.

[@TransportSimulatorNationTSN]

4:46 He said the right word before New York Times started to investigate and when the kids start to come out and say that it's false and there's abuse at the school

[@romangladiator1106]

When you hear words such as miracle and unbelievable, it's likely to be unreal.

[@gudetama_love4674]

They need to shut up and listen to the guy who was ACTUALLY there and experienced it first hand.

[@mikethomas7700]

Feed your kids, house your kids and don't speak to your kids about education.. Yep nothing to see here all is well

[@Lexon412]

Wow, that main reporter KNEW it was all a scam. His “teammates” just stabbed his back for calling the kids brainwashed.

[@lkb-il8iy]

Maybe they didn't want to appear as racists

[@ceciliado6293]

Jesus Christ what's going to happen to those kids who just got accepted into those ivy league universities? Bc even if those schools revoke their acceptance Landry Prep has probably ruined the students' chance and reputation to get into a decent school..

[@virgo714]

How can they get accepted to those schools with no extracurricular classes... 😭😭

[@El3.14J]

Fake and altered transcriptions

[@idk-tl9fs]

12 hour days, how did anyone think this was a good idea

[@astridnaomi7314]

In one of the videos, you can see Landry shove a student to the ground while everyone is celebrating. Looks like because the student went to hug him. There were certainly clear signs.

[@goodcommunitylife]

Always make sure that a school that you want to attend is certified and credited through the state and actually has teachers and staff that want to be there!

[@laurenkrukoski8787]

I love that the one guy that went there was the only one that was skeptical. The others were defending it, I wonder how they felt later?

[@lkb-il8iy]

They probably didn’t want to be seen as racists

[@miaa1762]

So, nobody thought it was weird that they had to stay until they mastered something??? That's like, abuse and you won't learn something that way-

[@ciarar.981]

Now the other reporters look like fools! Carson Daly?? Really?? That’s not a real reporter! The only one who did REAL JOURNALISM here was the actual interviewer

[@melisestall5090]

Anyone who tells me that, I’m not allowed to be involved in my child’s teaching journey--gets the door closed in their face!

[@aj1265]

And this dude was right all along!!! 😆

[@LuckyDuckie115]

Thanks NYT for doing real journalism

[@girlfromsouth214]

"When you speak to the kids, they sound brandwashed." That's because most of them were.... and their parents too.

[@chickamauga7261]

All a lie

[@ThinkLuckyThink]

These poor students... being treated like crap. WAKE UP!

[@wwinky99]

$725. a month to attend this school and they go year round. They’re not from poverty if they can afford that. Their families are getting ripped off. The students aren’t getting an education and are being treated badly.

[@ProjectLingka]

"When its a black kid and its strictly education, something's wrong with that kid." HUH???

[@AlbertKimMusic]

The reporter clearly knew this was a sham from the start by the way he's being skeptical of everything 🤣🤣

[@rickwilliams5350]

100% college acceptance rate!? That’s a huge red flag right there

[@larrychunk8667]

Liberal brainwashing made this fraud possible. You'd think that the nation's top universities would ask basic questions like "Why don't you have an SAT score? Why is your school unaccredited? Why does your school have no teachers?" But no... the leftists who run our education system don't ask such questions. They just want to push their race-centric agenda where the content of your character barely matters and instead your race is valued or devalued.

[@americanpatriot3667]

Larry Chunk Ivy League schools Are a joke now because of Liberals they try and fill quotas of Blacks affirmative action letting low Iq kids in sed schools

[@harrisonash6]

The reporter was the only skeptical one, good for him

[@guiltypleasures01]

How cringeworthy. At least they kept this video up after this turned out to be a total sham.

[@laurenkrukoski8787]

So was this before or after they found out the administrators were forging transcripts?

[@TakiMakiGames]

Ronald McDonald over here with a smirk on his face

[@davidswarckof8025]

This aged well….especially everybody disagreeing with the interviewer for being skeptical

[@CarlsGarage1]

Well it is called a College Prep school, not a high school. Better than a Chinese labor camp style high school

[@kathtsmall6405]

Scam

[@taxesv1nce142]

Don’t talk to your kids about school. Yeah, that’s so you don’t go to prison Mr Mike.

[@hippoge7987]

About kids teaching themselves, that's the basic principle of modern Common Core. I was in Common Core test groups 7/8 years ago when Common Core was first being instituted in public schools and our teacher plainly told us, the goal of a Common Core environment is for students to discover the topics on their own and for the teacher to simply give them the answers at the end of the exercise. This was Algebra and Geometry, we were trying to teach ourselves how to write proofs and it doesn't really work. I have no comments abt TM Landry, but the American public school system in general is broken.

[@carloss9895]

U can’t replicate because it’s impossible to have 100% acceptance

[@miumoments]

Just found out about the NYT video. This makes me sick. Disgusting.

[@ClassicJukeboxBand]

It took me a nanosecond to figure out this was a scam.

[@Yasmin-hv1yf]

Remove the hopeful music, the interviewer knew something was up. Everyone is super optimistic, but even at the end he still is like "it is unbelievable."

[@johannivalerio8146]

This is so fake how did no one see something fishy at the start

[@hevarrysta]

I watch this video today after some suggested video. It's a scam!!! Yes.... There are never 100% accepted. Shame on you

[@foreverengland7659]

Lied to and used. If you say you can run like Usain Bolt you should be able to immediately no need to do the work ,have the focus ,believe in yourself , live the journey, set your goals. Kids are being cheated and missing out on finding their own possibilities and working to get it, but you’re black he uses, what a leech

[@arresttedrosadhanom741]

Notice the way the founder of the school is dressed like. Ronald McDonald.

[@joiri9498]

This didnt get the backlash it deserves probably because theyre..

[@MrHispanicpride]

human

[@msmalubaby]

Parental involvement is not allowed. Oh no that’s a huge sign 📍🚩

[@layla23794]

This is child abuse. Why are kids cleaning. Why are they sitting on the floor. No teachers. They aren’t even remotely qualified to teach these children

[@gmdnoob8954]

This is just a warehouse with tables

[@av3r3st24]

and noone ever thought BS?

[@perfectfae3534]

Because we would have been called racists.

[@vegasskating5127]

AV3R3ST democrats

[@Simsrockslol]

those videos always seemed suspicious to me, it just seemed too perfect.

[@mafaldarox]

Shut down TM Landry NOW!

[@JB49105]

These kids literally go to school for 12 hours how does no one find this suspicious

[@mikethomas7700]

The kids sound brainwashed.... Yep nothing to see here alls well

[@amies.52]

What are the stats on the students who have spent 2 years in college? Do they stay?

[@keidrickowens]

Only 4 kids since The existence of the school has not completed.

[@kevinw.3433]

Amie Smith yes they excel my daughter goes there.

[@MYNAMEISKLAY]

Kevin W. Any comment on the recent allegations regarding the school? Did you notice anything fishy?

[@amies.52]

@@kevinw.3433 Please comment on the recent articles surrounding this school Administration.

[@williameddy2826]

Mike Landry and his wife are con artists , nothing more . He was a salesman for most of his life .He did teach for a couple years .(2003-2005 ) She was a nurse .Many of the kids are years behind their official grade level . The school has teachers who are not qualified . They spend their high school years prepping for standardized tests . They are doing well on the SAT`s and ACT`s because of that emphasis . Mike Landry , then falsified transcripts with courses that kids hadn`t even taken , let alone excelled in . He also gave them a backstory that they didn't have . After that ,they got accepted in schools where they were often unprepared . Some kids , who hadn`t been at that school for long , did manage their university studies , but most were woefully unprepared . ( The students at this school , and their parents , are the victims of a charismatic cult leader with no conscience . )

[@justindoan6235]

This didn't age so well...

[@Fakhrihilmi69]

"Why play for the team when you can own it?" lololololollll

[@min_ny721]

“They were brainwashed” Then everyone else tries to denounce him

[@pmerancier]

I wonder how many times they had to rehearse?...Someone should have been suspicious when 100% of students enter college. It's unrealistic🤷‍♀️

[@inpiglatin]

Not really. It's a college prep school not a high school, so everyone there has the goal of getting into college. There were only like 15 people per grade, and most college prep schools screen kids to get them in (probably not this scam, but before people knew it was a scam that would've been under consideration). And not 100% got into Ivies or anything - it wouldn't be at all unrealistic for 15 pre-screened kids at a private college prep school to all at least get into a state school.

[@thedoye1239]

By making this you just sent 100 kids to an abbusive school Well done...

[@sneakerhead6625]

this didn’t age well

[@veronicam2942]

Good ole affirmative action, doing what’s it’s suppose to, I suppose. 😂

[@josephfraszka-suarez8417]

Ronald McDonald and Grimace cosplayers LOL that would be my first red flag

[@victor256in]

FRAUD! Oh boy these stupid anchor comments at the end won't age well!

[@beautychallengechannel6466]

*Common Sense has left the chat*

[@richdesare4362]

Y’all I’m so glad that New York Times video and article were published.

[@topkekfilmproductions3464]

That man is a genius

[@sushebdhhe9132]

I rather die than going there

[@janellentim]

2:38 He said don’t talk to your kids about education?

[@davepop8192]

Because him and his wife abuses the kids

[@tychaundabrown7551]

teachers with no certifications lmaoooooo good bye,

[@googlemeets9672]

Ikr

[@ferameliyafer3514]

If the founders of this private school and their students were white instead of black, people would be praising them! I can already envision some of the praises that’d be going around: • We need more private schooling and homeschools like this in the States • Private is better than public schools • The current educational bureaucracy is what’s failing our system • See, Louisiana a red state, better than those dens states • Founders are geniuses and heroes • I’d send my kids to this school than to the public system • Free market solves everything • Any allegations of the fudging the transcripts is Fake News perpetrated by the Bureaucrats, Establishment, and Media • The kids who are coming out talking about the bad things such as abuse, bad tactics , etc. are a bunch of snowflakes Blah, blah… The list goes on… I think what these founders are doing is brilliant and we need more like them around the country. All allegations made against them are just that allegations until proven otherwise! Praise these people as they have proven their system is working! Shame on anyone criticizing them. For what? Because they’re poor and minorities and they’re doing superior things to advanced themselves?

[@artiemilano378]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! you DO KNOW they got caught for chokeholding and slamming 8 year olds, illegally forging the transcripts of all of their students to say that they have gotten all 100s and have completed classes they never took (math, science, English, history), blackmailed and threatened the kids to lie in the interviews and prepared them and set up mock lessons and whiteboards to have interviewers think and record that they're doing what they never do when they are there, And that ALL of the kids who moved on to their colleges ended up failing and quitting out of inexperience, fraud from the school, and SOO much more? Look it up, the reporter was right about his skeptics all along. They were brainwashed indeed and YOU bought it!

[@ferameliyafer3514]

@@artiemilano378 prove it

[@mokkkksh]

@@ferameliyafer3514 it’s literally a google search away...

[@lkb-il8iy]

@@ferameliyafer3514 It made the headlines

[@andy_t6349]

Awkwarddddd….

[@republicansreprisal7993]

NOT TM LANDRY, BUT TM LAUNDRY, THE SCHOOL THAT WASHES YOUR BRAIN.... EXTRA RINSE!!

[@samuellittle1286]

I need to get that MIT book to land me a job at NASA'S JPL

[@cruzada07]

I just went here when the news broke

[@YouFoundLev]

THEY WERE BRAINWASHED.

[@CodeDeb]

Why is this video still up?

[@AlmostMiddleAgedASMR]

you can tell they're both off their rockers

[@zeqi]

Crazy school

[@busymom7729]

The school is closed.

[@eastlos7090]

Community College here we come

[@Garrus1995]

Better than nothing, man. A lot of people start at community colleges to find their place academically before transferring to 4 year universities. It’s a decent way to save money because community/junior colleges charge very low tuition to get electives out of the way so that students can move on to what matters at a full college. You don’t need to start at an Ivy League school to have a good life. Not everyone who is successful goes to such schools.

[@eastlos7090]

​@@Garrus1995 Bro, I got a degree in Administrative Justice from a community college and I might go for my BA at UCR. I feel ya on how it can get expensive.

[@robertaudrey2821]

It's called discipline something most of you lack and it's passing on to your children it's no different than a military school

[@pokosure3080]

It was all fake lol

[@arcanaz6583]

Its called getting "duped". Its hilarious that people like you talk about discipline without having the discipline to research something before making stupid comments. It was all a scam with fake transcripts.

[@o_o8822]

So homeboy was right...😂

[@theresa78201]

He has every right to gloat.

[@dylanmaulucci9289]

Less distractions means more accepted applications!

[@cult2458]

read this first www.nytimes.com/2018/11/30/us/tm-landry-college-prep-black-students.html

[@andye5724]

Do you really need to go to these schools to be successful? I know plenty of people that are successful graduated community college, and those that are not living well after university.

[@layla23794]

THEY ARE BRAINWASHED