Talk:Vernon Hills High School

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[edit] mascot

Because the school is located on what used to be the Nike Missle Silo, the VHHS students nearly became the Rockets. is this statement accurate? as a member of the first graduating class, and a student who voted in a student poll for the new mascot i don't remeber 'rockets' as a choice. avengers, huskies, and hurricanes however were. the avenger was an old avenger? fighter plane. the poll also asked for school colors, red and gold, purple and another color were two other choices that didn't win. Mwhope 20:28, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:VHHS crest.jpg

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[edit] NPOV

While persuing this article for no particular reason, I found many statements to not be from a NPOV. Please refer to WP:NPOV. By pure assumption, it seems like much of this article was written by current or former students of VHHS. Now, while I am sure that VHHS is a great school, however, from an encyclopaedic standpoint just the facts are needed and the facts will speak for themselves. I have a few examples to get started (this is not an all inclusive list just a get going list so that editors of this article get a good idea):

• In the 2007 ICTM State Math Competiton, VHHS took home third place. Its freshmen team and junior team took home 2nd place for each of their written competitions. VHHS even had 1st place Freshmen individual in the State, Jake Dinkel. Jake edged out two Walter Payton freshmen by one question to take the top honors and prevented Walter Payton from sweeping the 1st place individuals in all grade levels. In addition to the team's excellent performance overall, Kaz Gunning's extremely loud cheering motivated the relay team to a clutch victory and a 1st place finish. His relay team, along with the Calculator Team, Jake Dinkel, and all the other hard working individuals contributed to the 3rd place finish!

This example from the "Math Team" section basically reads like a newspaper article. Please see WP:MOS for more help on that.

• FBLA and DECA

Please spell out what these mean as the average user may not know

• Vernon Hills High School has always had a strong and professional theatre program. The 2000-2001 season was the first for VHHS. Pacific Overtures was a shared musical with LHS, the sister school of VHHS. Other musicals would also be shared with LHS; for example, "Les Mis" in 2002.

This sub-section (under the "theater" header) uses the initials LHS referring to a different high school (I assume). When using intitials for something, please spell it out first so the user will know what you are talking about.

There are a few more, but I hope the idea is gotten. Also, an infobox could be used to clean up the section on the Theater Club shows as well. This could be a great article if a few minor points are cleaned up. Unfortunatly I do not know a thing about the topic so the only thing I can contribute is grammer and clean-up help (I can also create the wikibox if you need help with it). I hope these comments can help an important article become better! Let me know if you need any help. Good Luck! Josborne2382 03:03, 27 October 2007 (UTC)