Talk:Repton School
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Important school with several world famous alumni and a considerable number notable in the UK. Lacks refs. It is just a "start". A better history would help Victuallers 20:32, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
Can we either explain, or link to an explanation of why the UK term 'public school' is not the same as the US term? Thanks, Mark Richards 06:03, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)
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[edit] Page edits
Removal of "School House was created in 1997 by merging Brook House with The Hall" Comment does not fit in with current style of article. This will be edited in later when the article is expanded. Don't worry! We cannot forget Brook!
Brook House will rise again and nuke those expensive flats into the ground.
Actually you can still see it on Google Earth - must be an old picture. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.160.196.3 (talk) 22:08, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
Spelling mistake correction - "exisits" to "exists"
Removal of "prestigious" from "Strong support exisits for calling the first new house Brook House after the prestigous house of the same name that closed in 1997." Biased comment. Every House at Repton is prestigous to its inhabitants!
[edit] Citations etc
I have put [citation needed] on the claim that Repton is one of the UK's co-educational public schools. To put it bluntly it is not. In general it is hard to establish a school's fame unless it is Eton College or Westminster School etc.
I have also put [citation needed] on the Public school bit. If you look on the Public Schools (UK) page, you will see that this is ill defined and you may also be aware that the preferred nomenclature (as on Repton School info box is "independent school". One may also ask who would have the authority to declare a school a public school?
Ramw2 22:10, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
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- I don't understand your first point. Why, if the school currently admits both boys and girls, is it not co-educational, and what has that got to do with establishing its fame? On your second point, if Repton is "... a school relying, for all of its funding, upon private sources, predominantly school fees" then it is certainly an "independent school" under that definition. I would think that it having been founded (and existing independently as per the above definition) for over 400 years also makes it, by common consent if no other definition exists, a "public school." If anyone disagrees with this, then we can keep the citation requirements in, otherwise I'll remove them. --Gilgongo (talk) 22:31, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
Sorry, maybe I wasn't explaining myself very well. I was not disputing that it is a co-educational school, I was disputing that it was "one of the most famous co-educational public schools...". As I said above, in general, this is a very hard claim to make, especially when I would think that most of the general public would have heard of for example, Marlborough College, or Wellington college. I seriously doubt that very many of the general public have heard of Repton.
On the public school issue I am simply saying:
1) The schools themselves classify themselves as independent schools, rather than public schools.
2) According to the page, Repton was granted the rank of public school. Who granted it this? Who would have the power to grant it this status? The term public school itself is open to many different interpretations....
Ramw2 (talk) 17:05, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
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- I agree with you on point 1. On point 2, such "granting" is, if not impossible, at least unattributed so it should be removed. Whether the school is famous is also a value judgement beyond the scope of Wikipedia I think. However, I still find it hard to imagine that Repton would not be described as a "public school" by popular consent, since its history and status is very similar to that of Eton, Harrow, Marlborough, Wellington, et. al. I would therefore say we should amend the opening paragraph to read as follows:
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- "Repton School, founded in 1557, is a British independent public school located in the village of Repton, in Derbyshire, England. Some of the remains of the oldest buildings date back to the 6th century."
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- Since the definition of "public school" is vague, I think the link to that article in the text will suffice.
[edit] Culture and Slang section
I removed this section as the slang is irrelevant and unencyclopedic, and those so-called ancient school rules are supposedly present in EVERY SCHOOL. Especially the one about "a certain prefect being able to graze a goat on piece of grass x, smoke a pipe, marry the Head Man's daughter, wear a sword, drink port during exams, grow a moustache and whiskers etc etc etc" are perfect examples of urban myths. Charming, omnipresent and total bull. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.161.145.163 (talk) 06:52, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
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- I have reverted the section on slang, but kept the ancient rules section out. This is because the listing of slang definitions is permitted [Wikipedia guidelines]. Please see also [WP:CON] - this issue should have been discussed first. --Gilgongo (talk) 09:34, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
- The section on slang has been removed again without any discussion by an unregistered user. I am therefore re-instating it. Again, please see WP:CON. If you want to remove the section on slang, please say why you wish to do so. I oppose its deletion because these terms qualify as the same as the jargon of various industries and fields. The guidelines say that such articles must be informative, not guiding in nature, and I think that the list does not contravene that guideline. In my opinion, the words are also not worth defining in the Wiktionary project, so their removal here lessens the sum of knowledge about Repton School. --Gilgongo (talk) 00:00, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Dubai school
Where it says it is the 'first of its kind' could that perhaps be clarified. For example, I know of other boarding schools that have extended abroad - Harrow has its own boarding school in Bangkok. Cheers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.231.221.94 (talk) 09:24, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
