Talk:Benton Academy

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Please add to the notable alumns section. This should be graduates with athletic, political, religious, or other notable acomplishments worthy of Wiki fame Msengineer1977 00:03, 13 November 2006 (UTC)msengineer1977[reply]

Segregation Academy

Sourced Material about the school's founding as a segregation academy and subsequent racial issues has been removed. Why? This is cited from a reliable source. There's no reason to remove it. It is discussed in reliable sources that it was founded as a segregation academy. It's not OK to remove sourced material without discussion on the talk page. Please discuss. Thanks! Jacona (talk) 05:19, 17 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I have replaced discussion of segregation academy and cleaned the article up extensively. John from Idegon (talk) 05:30, 17 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Demographics and sourcing

Hi Jacona - I'm concerned that adding the demographics as sourced to a primary source isn't necessarily appropriate. Feels a little too close to OR/SYNTH for my liking, since it's kind of implying "the school admissions are racist" in conjunction with the "former segregation academy" thing. Not saying that that isn't the case, just that I think it might be better to have a secondary source saying it. Thoughts? GeneralNotability (talk) 02:05, 15 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hundreds of school articles list demographics. This is stated in a neutral point of view. It doesn't imply anything, it states the government-provided numbers. Jacona (talk) 02:16, 15 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
To self-check, I googled site:https://en.wikipedia.org/ "high school" demographics. It reported About 52,800 results. I didn't delve into them deeply but the entries I saw were all legitimate high school articles. The fact that this school was founded for whites only and still enroll only whites 50 years later doesn't strike me as a legitimate reason to withhold normally-provided information. Jacona (talk) 02:25, 15 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]