Talk:American Embassy School

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are you stupid? disupted? WTF?! i'm a fucking a student in this sh!thole! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 203.200.115.7 (talk • contribs) .

You don't sound very neutral to me. LOL. Kappa 07:03, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Well the article was pulled from the school's website with only minor changes. Parts also sound very promotional instead of informational. Also, parts of the article are written in first person, which is the exact opposite of how an encyclopedia article should be. I came across this article last night and I only had a chance to stick the {{npov}} tag on it, otherwise I probably would have explained why (although it should be fairly clear). Also, please sign your comments by typing in ~~~~. --PS2pcGAMER (talk) 08:23, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Can kids handle Wikipedia?

Interesting. I make it a class assignment in Contemporary World Issues class for students to edit the AES entry for their school (to enhance it)...and what happens? Exactly the problem we discussed in class with using Wikipedia. While most students added helpful, unbiased knowledge straight from the school's official website--one student (and I'm pretty sure I know who it is, and this student knows they are doing something immature and thoughtless--which explains why they remain anonymous in all comments and edits) chooses instead to junk up the AES entry with childish comments. No one from the school even accessed the entry before I asked students to work with it in class. All of the senseless edits occurred AFTER this assignment was given. Can high school kids handle Wikipedia?

Does this prove that Wikipedia can't be trusted as a source? That some will always ruin it for others? Why not embrace this idea instead of try and tear down what this site is meant to accomplish?

And to future student defilers...be brave enough to own up to your words and sign your name. If you are ashamed to put your name next to what you say, then don't say anything at all.

--Ms. Fang

[edit] Not an issue of being ashamed

I do not think that students not showin their face on gang-bang parties is cowardice, its prudence. Students when they can't express freely their sexual desires find other ways to do so, in a way as to not land up in trouble.

HELLO MR. DAW

[edit] that's true depending on the comment being made

I agree with you one point. You are right--anonimity is prudence in the face of a meaningful, thoughtful statement that may go against the status quo. I would never shut down a student who wanted to make a controversial statement that furthered intellectual discourse, but s/he may feel it's too risky to state publicly. This is done often in the school's newspaper. But it is cowardice when it's in the context of silly online vandalism (see the history of this page to see what I am talking about). This is what I was referring to earlier. Otherwise Wikipedia continues to lose whatever credibility it has left as an unbiased encyclopedic source, and simply becomes nothing more than someone's personal blog page full of random ramblings. It is valuable for students to have a place to express themselves. But perhaps that would be more appropriate in the AES student Xanga blogring, ([1]) rather than in this particular forum.

--Ms. Fang