Talk:Walter Johnson High School

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[edit] Edits to "History" and "Mascots" Sections

I edited the "History" and "Mascots" sections to add some factual material and correct inaccuracies. (BCC was not a rival of WJ for most of the school's history. During the 1970s, I doubt anyone knew who the rival school was.) The information is supported by the material discussed in the edits (yearbooks, Washington Post article). Bob99 23:06, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Also, the hazing thing sounds exaggerated, or perhaps a new "tradition" that was limited to the late 1980s. People used to walk on the Trojan plaque all the time during the early to mid-1970s era of the Rudy Maxa article. In those days, you would have been laughed out of school if you tried to enforce the "don't step on the plaque" rule. The notable discipline problem was streaking, not plaque enforcement. After a few sporadic incidents, the students were sent home early one day because of multiple streaking incidents on a single day. (They got the last streaker trapped in the building and hunted him down.) Tobacco was not a discipline problem at that time, because the students had a designated smoking area in the front of the school. In theory, they were supposed to have notes from their parents in order to smoke, but my understanding is that this was difficult to enforce.

Bob99 03:43, 21 March 2007 (UTC)