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School in Asia?

Just wondering if we should have a subcategory for the meaning of school for Asian/Third World countries since we have the different school systems for Europe, North America, US, etc. I feel like this will eliminate the apparent/perceived Eurocentric bias that some articles might have. For example, for the Asian school system, we might mention the cultural history of how a traditional academy was perceived? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.234.135.238 (talk) 18:56, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Tiny edits by a random

Not a regular editor, but a couple of tiny things irked me, so I changed them. One was a typo, but the second adjusted content slightly. The bullying bit finishes on a very peculiar note, but before it rather implied that bullying led to suicide almost by default. I tidied up the wording, but I think the point could still be expressed better through a more detailed analysis.

Links

Correct - adding links is not vandalism. My bad. However, adding a link to the same site from multiple pages - http://rise.f2o.org - is considered linkspam and is against Wikipedia policy. Cheers. --PhilipO 18:46, September 6, 2005 (UTC)

the hindi interwikilink given is wrong

correct link is hi:विद्यालय —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 59.94.148.119 (talk)

first sentence

This is a technicality, but many educators would not agree with the implication that students learn from teachers. (Teachers don't just dispense information) I would change it to "A school is an institution where students (or "pupils") learn with the help of a teacher." but this sounds better: "A school is an institution where teachers help students (or "pupils") learn." Does anyone agree this might be a more technically correct description of what happens at schools?

Yes I would agree that students no longer learn from teachers but I would phrase that by saying "A school is an institution where student learning is facilitated by teachers" or "A school is an institution where teachers facilitate students' learning". I don't teach English so feel free to correct any grammar. Sarahmc92 (talk) 21:12, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Caption for picture

"A typical school entrance building in Australia" is a bad caption for the picture, for one its not a "typical" school entrance

NPOV -- Student stress in school

I deleted the following sentences from the sub-section 'Stress':

Not to mention the pressure on the students! In school, they are judged mercilessly based on sparse test grades, The dreaded Standardized Tests, and their peers.

These sentences are POV. Please refer to WP:NPOV. The stress on students is an important topic that should probably be included in this section. However, it should be written from a NPOV standpoint with references to studies linking stress and school or studies/experiments that prove stress exists. While we all know students do undergo stress in school, from an encyclopaedic point of view it needs to be backed up with verifiable references and sources to document that it indeed does exist. Josborne2382 22:56, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Reguarding stress, the section only covers it from the teachers' point of view, which means it's not neutral. I moved the POV tag to that section and as a little girl i knew school was going to be boring for me because i was smarter then the avrege girl/3rd grader. --Pwnage8 (talk) 22:19, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

As far as the stress thing goes, I was gonna say the same thing. My first thought upon reading that subsection was, "EXCUSE ME? This is about how stressful it is for the teachers??? THE TEACHERS??? Omfg..." My first thought upon reading the "Discipline" subsection was, "Hey! This is only from the teachers' point of view! WHAT ABOUT THE STUDENTS??!! :'(" As a student who has had an extremely stressful semester, I found it very belittling to see not a single mention of how students might view this whole thing.

Another thought I had while adding this to the talk page was, "AT LEAST THE TEACHERS GET PAID! AND IF THEY DON'T LIKE IT, THEY CAN GET A NEW JOB! I DON'T HAVE A CHOICE! (And I've never received a paycheck for coming to school, have you?)" Obviously, no one should ever, EVER, add that to the article. 72.39.148.218 (talk) 04:51, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

This omitted that 16 to 18 year olds typically go to colleges (studying "A" levels or other advanced level course for 2 years) after leaving school. Some secondary schools/ grammar schools offer a sixth form for 16 and 17 year olds allowing them to study "A" levels whilst remaining at school (instead of going to college). A typical route (among various other routes) could be Primary School (infant school and junior schools often on the same site), Secondary school (age 11 to 16), college (generally age 16 to 18), University (generally 18 years plus). Note that Universities are often made up of Schools (referring to subject areas) and sometimes colleges (which groups of students will belong to). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.111.5.141 (talk) 20:17, 31 May 2008 (UTC) HOLA MIS AMIGOS!!! XD —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.253.238.73 (talk) 18:35, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

School structure

Should the artice be reworked to shift it's focus towards the typical structure of the school and education process? I believe yes, because article that mentions cafeteria as a part of the school yet says almost nothing about the grades etc seems to be rather uninformative and even misleading ArchSaur (talk) 15:51, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

fad —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.81.203.189 (talk) 16:09, 17 November 2008 (UTC)