Talk:Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School for Boys

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1 Assessment as of March 2007
2 Naming of this page
3 Houses
4 'whores on the hill'
5 Start again?
6 Student Opinion

[edit] Assessment as of March 2007

Hello all, and thank you for contributing to this school site. I'm part of the Wikipedia:WikiProject_Schools/Assessment team, and I'm reviewing this page. I'm currently giving it a grade of Start on the Wikipedia 1.0 Assessment Scale and an importance of High on this importance scale.

My reasoning is as follows: This school is over 400 years old with royal charter but this article is completely uncited and needs much additional information and cleanup. Adam McCormick 05:11, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Naming of this page

Should this page be renamed? There is Queen Elizabeth's school for girls as well. --The1exile 20:39, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

Yes, there is, but for some reason all they share is the name. The schools have no relation.

[edit] Houses

Could we get up some information up about the houses? We had some on our noticeboards but it was buried under the general detrius of ugly layouts. 81.32.267.928

[edit] 'whores on the hill'

Did our headmaster really say this??? If so, when? Defo need some more information on the houses, and also the staff. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.78.76.15 (talk • contribs) 23:13, March 23, 2006 (UTC)

Why would he say that? It's libellious. Give the Headmaster SOME credit. --80.42.154.79 17:42, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

What did the HM mean by whores on the hill?

[edit] Start again?

This is not a very good article and appears to contain what is in effect an advertisement for the school.--IXIA 13:35, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

I think teachers have got involved. It's not neutral; containing a lot of weazel words such as "Flippant".

Also, what on earth does "Some students also feel that the school forces them to sell raffle tickets whereas a minority would rather do nothing" mean? I do not understand the placement of "whereas".

In fact it's amazing that a school with over 400 years of history can be treated in such a trivial way. I think the extract from the website should be deleted. Does anyone disagree?--IXIA 21:14, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

"Some of these sites are more flippant than others." That is an opinon. Shall I go ahead with delete?--80.42.156.230 19:14, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Wouldn't disagree. IXIA 21:39, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

I've removed it and done some heavy cleanup and removal of irrelevant things. By the way, a list of teacher's names is non-encyclopedic and not noteworthy for inclusion in an encylopedia

Yes the Headmaster did refer to QEG's as the whores on the hill. It was Eamon Harris who made the comment during an assembly regarding "Elizabethan's" fraternizing with the young ladies down the road and the detrimental effect such things could have on the minds of young men but mostly about "his" school being brought down off it's pedastall. Nothing compared to Dr M's comment to a Ben Nacroma (Sorry if I spelt your name wrong Ben, it was 16 years ago!) a new black student who was messing about during a history lesson "If you'd have done that in my country I would have blown your bloody knee caps off" Nice!!