Talk:The Glasgow Academy
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good alumni, old(ish) school. No pics more refs reqd e.g "one of the oldest" Victuallers 16:03, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] School age/independence
It is actually the 2nd oldest school in glasgow according to wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_oldest_schools_in_the_United_Kingdom The High School of Glasgow is the oldest dating to pre 1124 according to wikipedia —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.215.149.99 (talk) 18:32, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
Rather than "it is the oldest fully independent school", it might be better to say "it was the first fully independent school in Glasgow" as while the High School was run by the Church then State, it is still the oldest school, and is fully independent. 62.56.76.246 (talk) 00:43, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
The School's own website refers to it as "the oldest fully-independent school in Glasgow", so surely if the school itself claims it, it must be correct. Chris (talk) 17:03, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
But just because someone claims something on their OWN website doesn't mean it's true. We have hard facts that The High School of Glasgow is the oldest and I think we should change it accordingly. Again just because someone puts a fact on their own website doesn't mean it is true.
We aren't really debating about which school is the oldest school in Glasgow. It is undoubted that The High School of Glasgow is the oldest school, however The Glasgow Academy is the oldest fully independent school in Glasgow, as stated on their website. The Boys' High School of Glasgow closed sometime after 1905[1] and after its closure, the new, NOW independent (co-educational) High School of Glasgow came into existence. [2] As stated above, The High School of Glasgow was run by the Church then the state, not to mention the fact that the school has received funding for certain aspects of the school, it became fully independent after The Glasgow Academy, making the debated statement true. Chris (talk) 18:55, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
The High School of Glasgow is actually the second oldest school as it had previously been known as Glasgow High School, however, the name was changed to The High School of Glasgow after The Glasgow Academy was founded making it technically the second oldest school. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Henc6 (talk • contribs) 09:30, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] George Macdonald Fraser
According to the Telegraph [3] he seems to have been educated here - and I think a famous alumnus such as Fraser shouldn't be left out of the list. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jackdelyelis (talk • contribs) 13:53, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
