Talk:List of fictional schools

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Can't find any ref for this other than copies of this WP article. Assuming it was a one-off used in an obscure story.

    • It was used in the article about the fictional sport, 43 man Squamish. Granted, Vootie was a favorite Mad filler word at the time, like Portezibie or Qwerty, so it appeared in many different contexts. It was memorable for me, but I don't know if it was used anywhere else. Yours with wikiness, Two Halves, The Unloggedin

Added by an anon editor, it seems like a vanity link. I've never heard of this web comic, though it exists. If I'm living in a cave on this one, someone let me know.

PS 238 is a comic book, actually, published by Dork Storm Press (publishers of Dork Tower). -- Lampbane 01:52, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)

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[edit] Organization

Does it make the most sense to organize this list by the type of media of the source story, as opposed to organizing it by type of school? Another argument against organization by media type is that a lot of these figure in stories that span multiple media types -- Hogwarts for example. --KeithTyler

I went ahead with a reorganization by school type of the list. There were a few schools I couldn't determine their type; these are in the Other section. Also, I'm not positive on some of the private schools vs. public schools. So, if you see a misorg'ed school, please move it. KeithTyler 20:22, Aug 25, 2004 (UTC)


[edit] Comprehensive school - pub or priv?

I'm a Yank, so I don't know what a comprehensive school is, though they sound mainly like boarding schools (and therefore would fall under Private and boarding schools)... but is this always the case; are there such things as public comprehensive schools? --KeithTyler 20:29, Aug 26, 2004 (UTC)

Almost always. A comprehensive school is, basically, the standard state secondary school that the majority of kids go to. --Daibhid C

  • Does it replace elementary school and middle school? In other words should comprehensive school have its own section here, or is it sufficiently covered between public elementary school and private school? KeithTyler
    • I'd put it them "High School". I don't think it's worth separating out the UK and US education systems. In fact, I notice Paul A has already put a couple of UK comprehensives under High School, so I've moved the last one in as well. Daibhid C

[edit] Weequahic High School

Weequahic High School IS a REAL school in Newark, NJ. Google it for evidence thereof.

I don't know anything about Portnoy's Complaint, but there does appear to once have been such a school. Whether or not it was around at the time the book is placed is another story. - Keith D. Tyler (AMA) 19:07, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] There is a truman college in Chicago!!!

Ther is a mistake here Truman college has been around for a while as a JC

http://www.trumancollege.cc/index.php

A tough one, because the "Truman College" in the movie was filmed at Ryerson University in Toronto, so it was almost certainly not intended to be Truman City College of Chicago. - Keith D. Tyler (AMA) 19:17, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Parochial/private schools

I'd like to move parochial schools to a subcategory of private school, since as I understand it *all* parochial schools are private schools (at least in places that do not have state-imposed religion). Wl219 21:34, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Select Seminary for Young Ladies - real?

Hello! I was reading unpublished autobiographical notes of a woman in which the editor(!) lists such a school, time of enrolment being sometime around 1895-1905 in the area of London, England. Would there be any way to verify if such a school ever existed? (i'm making an assumption that it was of a "boarding" type, however not necceseraly)

Thank you very much, Konstantin G.A.

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