Talk:Grammar School at Leeds

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I removed the following edit by User_talk:84.67.189.10, because it's just copied and pasted in with no attempt at context and it seems highly POV. Richard W.M. Jones 20:25, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

The Grammar School at Leeds is a grammar school in Leeds, United Kingdom, created in legal terms in August 2005 from the merger of Leeds Grammar School and Leeds Girls' High School. Physical merger is due to take place in september 2007 with a vast extension of the current buildings (should planning permission be allowed) The Headmaster of this new school will be Dr Mark Bailey.

There has been significant controversy over the suitability of this merger action - including in concerns to the ill-welcomed 'SHINE' logo published intended as part of the new GSAL scheme. The school has currently scheduled the physical merger for 2007, however, whether or not this will go ahead as planned is dubious. As of yet, no planning permission has been acquired for the desired alterations and additions to the Leeds Grammar School site in order to accomodate the forthcoming influx of staff and female pupils, a significant proportion of the teaching staff in LGS speculate that if such planning permission is denied or altered then we can expect a further delay in concerns to the date of the physical merger. Another problem will be the detrimental effects on the LGS sixth form during the year leading up to the merger - according to plans, the existing 6th form centre is to be demolished and replaced in time for 2007. Unfortunately this means the school year starting September 2006 will have no existing sixth form centre (as building work takes place). This is a severe blow to a sixth form who will be forced to do their AS and A-levels amist the chaos of construction work and without proper accomodation - which has benifited 6th forms in LGS for many years up till now.

It is widely accepted that the two schools (LGS and LGHS) have both moved to tackle a drop in pupil numbers in order to keep profitable. Over the past few years both schools have seen a drastic fall in teaching standards and pupil abilities as they have been forced to branch out to more and more potential pupils who would previously have been refused entry to the school on accounts of their entrance examination marks. That is not to say that such leneancy is not beneficial for the general populace, but it has degraded the social aura of the school as well as the school's productivity as a foundation of high education standards.

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The latest few edits ([1]) by an anon, adding a lengthy quote is not very encyclopedic. In addition, whom is the Richard W.M. Jones being cited? I have left a msg on the talk page of User:Richard W.M. Jones. Anyhow, it seems like a copyvio from the school's website to my mind, and I have thus removed it. _└^UkPaolo/_talk^┐ 19:26, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

This "quote" is nothing to do with me, as you've probably guessed. I'm going to investigate the IP that posted this and attempt to send a complaint to the requisite authorities. Richard W.M. Jones 20:53, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Are we sure GSAL counts as a 'grammar school'? Sounds highly dodgy to me. Debs 17:17, 24 April 2006 (UTC)