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Contents 1 Restructure 2 Tiny edits by a random 3 Links 4 the hindi interwikilink given is wrong 5 first sentence 6 Caption for picture 7 NPOV -- Student stress in school 8 School results day 9 Pre university education in the UK

[edit] Restructure

I selected two sections which I believe I am very informed about and separated and turned them into three more specific sections: Public/Private Schools and Boarding School,Components of Most Schools, and Security Measures after Devastations. I took School Size & Structure gave it a few citations and re-structured it so it was more uniform and flowed more smoothly. These were necessary because the section was very choppy and seemed like it was a list. The second section Ii was a hard tid bit of information that i added and added some citations. These were needed because there are very few citations throughout the article and because the name of the section was not related to the information discussed in the section. emerrifi —Preceding comment was added at 17:49, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tiny edits by a random

i like ?.Not a regular editor, but a couple of tiny things irked me, so I changed them. One was a typo, but the second adjusted content slightly. The bullying bit finishes on a very peculiar note, but before it rather implied that bullying led to suicide almost by default. I tidied up the wording, but I think the point could still be expressed better through a more detailed analysis.

[edit] Links

Correct - adding links is not vandalism. My bad. However, adding a link to the same site from multiple pages - http://rise.f2o.org - is considered linkspam and is against Wikipedia policy. Cheers. --PhilipO 18:46, September 6, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] the hindi interwikilink given is wrong

correct link is hi:विद्यालय —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 59.94.148.119 (talk)

Dear* school, Hi My name is Enkhjargal. Iam live Uaanbaatar, Mongolia.IT two years I will be a student.I little speak english.This year Iam studying English.Your school is large appreciating.Iam learning ache your at school.Your school large beatiful.Is pipul learns via pension?? Am I learning via pension please???? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 202.170.82.7 (talk)

[edit] first sentence

This is a technicality, but many educators would not agree with the implication that students learn from teachers. (Teachers don't just dispense information) I would change it to "A school is an institution where students (or "pupils") learn with the help of a teacher." but this sounds better: "A school is an institution where teachers help students (or "pupils") learn." Does anyone agree this might be a more technically correct description of what happens at schools?

[edit] Caption for picture

"A typical school entrance building in Australia" is a bad caption for the picture, for one its not a "typical" school entrance

Omg school is the best thing —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.198.2.38 (talk) 02:01, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

shcools can be any where and in the future it should be compulerary. becasue every one should have there chance to be educated. isn't that right joel luther, it tim —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thaik123 (talk • contribs) 10:33, August 28, 2007 (UTC)

joel its me tim do u remember —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thaik123 (talk • contribs) 02:26, August 30, 2007 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV -- Student stress in school

I deleted the following sentences from the sub-section 'Stress':

Not to mention the pressure on the students! In school, they are judged mercilessly based on sparse test grades, The dreaded Standardized Tests, and their peers.

These sentences are POV. Please refer to WP:NPOV. The stress on students is an important topic that should probably be included in this section. However, it should be written from a NPOV standpoint with references to studies linking stress and school or studies/experiments that prove stress exists. While we all know students do undergo stress in school, from an encyclopaedic point of view it needs to be backed up with verifiable references and sources to document that it indeed does exist. Josborne2382 22:56, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Reguarding stress, the section only covers it from the teachers' point of view, which means it's not neutral. I moved the POV tag to that section. --Pwnage8 (talk) 22:19, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] School results day

In the UK, they have a day when they go into their school (I think) and get there results, is there an article of this? This also should be mentioned in the article, to an extent. Liquinn (talk) 17:14, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Pre university education in the UK

This omitted that 16 to 18 year olds typically go to colleges (studying "A" levels or other advanced level course for 2 years) after leaving school. Some secondary schools/ grammar schools offer a sixth form for 16 and 17 year olds allowing them to study "A" levels whilst remaining at school (instead of going to college). A typical route (among various other routes) could be Primary School (infant school and junior schools often on the same site), Secondary school (age 11 to 16), college (generally age 16 to 18), University (generally 18 years plus). Note that Universities are often made up of Schools (referring to subject areas) and sometimes colleges (which groups of students will belong to). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.111.5.141 (talk) 20:17, 31 May 2008 (UTC)