Talk:Episcopal School of Jacksonville

Connie Fletcher

I'm sorry but I'm not sure how a soap opera actress counts as notable. Especially when you compare it to the other people in that category: a former world number one golfer and a British Open champion and a three time olympic gold medalist. Being a scrub actor relagated to soap operas isn't really all that notable imho. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 161.243.114.88 (talk • contribs)

There's a Wikipedia article about her. If she were non-notable, the article about her would be eligible for deletion. dcandeto 22:48, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Neutrality, References

This article really needs references and an edit - by someone who knows more about the school than me - for neutrality. Unsupported statements such as "is noted for its academic and character building programs," "thriving community service office," and "surpasses the quality of any other high school facility in the area," make this read more like a promotional brochure than an encyclopedia article. Eron 17:58, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

The "surpasses the quality of any other high school facility in the area," does sound like it is from a brochure but it is subjective information. No other highschools in Jacksonvile have an center that is as big or as expensive as Episcopal's.

--Harrisonhjones 18:07, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Football

i think that the section about JT Townsand should be moved away from the athletics area because it is not so much an accomplishment as it is an unfortunate incident. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.154.212.69 (talk) 20:12, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

October 2009

I thoroughly gutted the article, which had become nothing but boosterism and inane facts about the school's sports teams. I would have reverted to a previous version, but there's never been a good one - before that it was largely a reiteration of a news story about an insensitive picture in the school paper. I'm leaving the "unreferenced tag" since the cites I added are all to the school's website and do not constitute reliable, third-party sources; I wasn't able to find any in my cursory search.--Cúchullain ^t/c 15:28, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

I agree the page had become cluttered and perhaps focused on sports but when you gutted the page you got rid of some important things. for example the notable alumni such as swimmers also the entire section of sports did not need to be removed this is an area that is important an important aspect of school life and is featured in many school articles on wikipedia for example bolles has a whole section, if this page does not need a sport section than no page about a school does. I know there was not a "good" format before so i will try to add more info at a later date that fits into a "good" format —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.218.211.133 (talk) 03:22, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

None of it was cited to reliable sources, which means it can't be included. It doesn't matter what other articles do or don't do if the material at this one can't be verified. If you want to expand the article with real sources and neutral wording, by all means do so.--Cúchullain ^t/c 14:11, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Cuchullain, did u go to bolles because u have edited both ehs and bolles' pages but ive noticed u have gutted the ehs article and made other removals because there are not many sources yet the bolles page has citations needed tags all over it yet u have not gutted that page, there are like 12 works cited but there are a lot more then 12 facts on the page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.218.222.135 (talk) 06:42, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

I did gut the Bolles School article.[1] I also gutted Arlington Country Day School[2], University Christian School[3], and especially St. Johns Country Day School[4]. As none of them have been improved over the last several months, I will go back and gut them further when I have time. The only difference between my treatment of this article and my treatment of those is that I happened to get to this one first, and have done a lot more work on this one than on those.--Cúchullain ^t/c 13:55, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

Logo, post-name change

The article needs a new version of the school's logo after its name change from Episcopal High School.--Cúchullain ^t/c 21:05, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

School shooting

The material I added about the 2012 shooting is accurate cited, and, I'd think relevant to the topic. I don't see why it's being removed.--Cúchullain ^t/c 14:31, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

The material has been altered several times by an anonymous user who has previously added negative material about the victim.[5] This isn't going to fly. The current version is accurate and follows the source, which makes it clear that Schumerth was fired for incompetency. There's no reason to remove that or to add all that other baseless material.--Cúchullain ^t/c 12:21, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

Here is the section which I put back, it will be here if it disappears againBachcell (talk) 01:14, 29 May 2014 (UTC)

Episcopal School was the site of a school shooting on March 6, 2012, when fired Spanish teacher Shane Schumerth shot and killed head of school Dale Regan before committing suicide. Schumerth, who had been struggling with depression, was fired for incompetency that morning; he returned to the campus at 1:15 p.m. with an AK-47 assault rifle concealed in a guitar case. He entered Regan's office and shot her multiple times before turning the gun on himself.

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