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and educational priorities more than in many other schools. Their identity is therefore potentially significant and illuminating for readers and researchers. To eliminate this information unilaterally (unless you have reason to believe that it is false) is destructive and is not in the best interests of
Knowledge (XXG)'s readers. Ideally such information would also be provided for other schools - let's hope that knowledgeable Knowledge (XXG) contributors can add it in the coming months and years.
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their child to one school or another is even more difficult. Was it simply the closest school? Was it the only school the organisation they worked for would pay the fees for? An article in a newspaper where a parent explained their reasons for sending their child to
Ecolint would be a reliable source. A scholarly book on the influence of parents on the development of Ecolint would be a reliable source. Simply extrapolating from the list of students who happened to have notable parents is not.
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subsection altogether, pending referenced evidence. Therefore, to avoid the kind of "war" to which you refer, it would be courteous on your part to remove the redundant specification you have added. Otherwise, in the interests of consistency, you would have to add to the articles dedicated to every other school in the world the list of all the accreditations that they don't have! Thank you.
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researchers. Such records are the bottom line for any claim that is made about alumni/parents of any school. You have mentioned the article on Eton as a model in
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Dear ZH8000, Thank you for your apparently knowledgeable comments, the good faith of which I do not doubt. However, I don't know what your mean about "your" school, since clearly I don't have access to the specialized information that this discussion is focusing on - otherwise, I would have included
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interesting and historically and sociologically significant to know what parents decided to send their children to a particular school, provided (and here I agree with you) that these lists of parents are readily verifiable. Knowledge (XXG) would be improved if this information could be provided for
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International School of Geneva (ISG) is the first school in the world to bear the appelation "International". Many schools that were formerly "British", "French", "American" (i.e. those serving the colonial Ă©lites) have since become International. By contrast, ISG has been known
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However, there is no point whatsoever in having a subsection dedicated to "Swiss Accreditation" in an article, with the sole purpose of pointing out that a school doesn't have any! You will understand that this can only be interpreted as a derogatory specification. It's best to leave out the
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Can you find a source for this? The school in Manila was originally founded as an American school, not an international one. It only changed its name to the International School Manila in 1970, but this was not its founding ethos. It was founded by and for Americans.
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isn't International School Manila in the Philippines the oldest international school in the world? it was founded in 1920, in contrast to the International School Geneva which was established in 1924. Hence International School Manila is older by 4 years.
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Removing the fluffly statements like " the school has pursued a mission to educate for peace and to inculcate strong humanitarian values of inclusiveness, respect and inter-cultural understanding." that can't really be proven and make the wikipage sound
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I wrongly made huge updates to the page without consulting other users, so as suggested by User:Lard Almighty (thanks for the suggestion btw) I think is wise if I first proposed what I would like to change in the page to everyone.
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foundation to the 1960s (subsequently, the number of students became too great for such a register), in addition to tens of thousands of student files (obviously more confidential) which contain fuller details for
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that will enable us to continue to enrich constructively this and other articles, in good faith and with verifiable information, for the benefit of Knowledge (XXG)'s readers.
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idea of the topic been "too sided" and "not neutral". The other two problems are about sourses that are a bit harder to find and work with without shortening the page.
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