Talk:Columbia High School (New Jersey)

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Victuallers 13:02, 18 March 2007 (UTC) I've tried to address the specific concerns of Leifern that weren't changed by the person who last posted here. If you see any more examples, please note them or change them. Otherwise I'll pull the flag on Feb 11, 2006 (1 week) under the assumption that all is well! -John[reply]

I have updated the article for Columbia High School to try (as best I can) to conform to the standards in the Schools WikiProject.

Cleanup

A lot of excellent material has been added, but the tone needs to be improved to be more objective - this should not be a promotional article for Columbia High School. For example, it would be ok to write that "the school provides an extensive and diverse curriculum in an effort to achieve high academic standards," but not "the school is in a class of its own," etc. Think newspaper writing. --Leifern 02:11, 31 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

New Cleanup Tag

A cleanup tag was added to the page after several months. What are the particular complaints? I've read over the article several times, and it seems the POV has been removed. If I cannot get specfics, I will pull the flag in one week on Thursday, April 20th. --Metromoxie 16:00, 13 April 2006 (EST)

Just glancing at the article, it needs a lot of citations added to it. --Strothra 00:43, 14 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Course Listings

Thanks for making academics 2-columns, it was unwieldily. Frankly I don't see the value of having the complete course list here, but whatever.

Ultimate

I don't know much about the high school or their ultimate team except that we played them last year (they were pretty good), and they're consistently very very good, and it's the high school where the sport was more or less born -- there should be more than a sentence saying that. Fantusta 17:49, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

~ Seriously, if you're gonna talk about Ultimate at CHS, then talk about how the sport was invented there! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.186.101.198 (talk) 11:09, 28 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I'd like to see that emphasized. The bit about NJ high school championships is problematic; 13 years as of when? There was an NJ high school championship in the mid-1980s, though I don't remember if there was a tournament, or if it was just the team with the best record. Of course, I think NJ only had 4-8 HS teams around then. -- akb4 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.163.101.213 (talk) 06:54, 3 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Computer lab

I was a student in the graduating class of 1974. There was a computer lab with an IBM 1130 and two keypunches. The IBM 1130 supported Fortran, RPG, Assembly, Basic, and APL. There was a similar setup at Morristown High School in the same year. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.255.43.8 (talk) 05:42, 15 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, that section is messed up. The IBM 1401 card machine (which probably succeeded the 1130) was retired and replaced by the Series 1 (which was not a card based machine) around 1982. I expect a number of NJ high schools had minicomputers or old cardpunch gear in the 70s. -- akb4 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.163.101.213 (talk) 06:32, 3 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The IBM Series /1 minicomputer was removed in 1989, and replaced with IBM PC AT clones. In 1990, the lab computers were moved to a new lab location in the B wing, and additional IBM PS/2's were added along with a Novell Netware server. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.98.210.243 (talk) 20:43, 12 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

fencing

The article says the team was started in 1982; this is sort of true. The first year as a team was the 1983-1984 school year. In the 1982-1983 school year there was a fencing club whose adviser was Mr Cohen, a biology teacher. We met weekly and never fenced against any other schools. A bunch of us (me, M Beatty, P Oratowski, M Howard and especially D Glasser, whose older brother was a very good fencer) successfully lobbied the board of education to fund a team the following year, and George Stager became coach. (Mr Cohen didn't have time to coach a varsity team). Mr Stager was a humanities teacher who coached the girl's tennis team; he had no prior fencing knowledge, but Danny Glasser, our first captain, knew enough to get us started. I think we lost every match the first season, but our spirit was strong; after each away match, Oratowski pitched candy out to everyone on the bus as we rode home in defeat. Second season I think we won a match or two. I also strongly suspect that the school had had fencing teams previously. -- akb4 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.163.101.213 (talk) 06:50, 3 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Controversy

The section about "Growing up, Growing apart" should be moved from controversy. The article itself states that it "wasn't controversial, per se". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.154.53.111 (talk) 08:20, 11 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

ACLU complaint

Do Not touch the ACLU complaint, it uses CHS as an example, similarly the SOMSD page is never visited. THIS IS IMPORTANT INFORMATION PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW IT. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.54.216.151 (talk) 02:34, 5 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The complaint was filed against the South Orange-Maplewood School District and that's where the material most properly belongs. People have the right -- and the opportunity -- to read this information. Even better would be the addition of independent sources regarding the complaint, most particularly a response from the district. Alansohn (talk) 02:46, 5 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

there is no district response, and columbia high school should carry the burden of addressing these problems, it is on us, concerned students to keep people from covering this up. I really do not care about how many municipalities' wikipedia pages you manage, this is our school and we deserve to spread any and all information. There are plenty of district scandals that are not talked about anywhere on wikipedia. This is too important for the little obssessive job of yours -noel murray — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.54.216.151 (talk) 13:54, 5 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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