Talk:Scarsdale High School

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People to Verify

Mara Liasson '73

Verified [1]

Karen Sloan '73

Needs to be verified Google("Karen Sloan" scarsdale) Only 2 pages. Did her name change?

I just went through the the alums listed. I'd like to point out that Franklin Delano Bluth '78 is a puppet from the TV show Arrested Development and was listed as a SHS alum for over a month.... Anyway, I've listed here four more people left to verify Crazyjoe (talk) 05:55, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bryan Reynolds ’83 - His wiki page says that he graduated SHS and cites [2] despite the fact that he is not mentioned on that list

Gary Peacock '79 - It seems he as preformed around Westchester, but I haven't found anything about graduating from SHS

Liza Minnelli - I have found several sites that simply list SHS under education for her, but nothing more. I'd like to find something more substantial

Paul Feiner '74 - Found out he grew up in Westchester, but not where

Intro

[3] The current intro sounds more like bragging than actual info about the school.--E-Bod 23:55, 30 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Distinguished Alumni

The list is getting long So I moved all the ones not linked to a wikipedia article here until we find the corresponding article. We should Also check each link to make sure we are linking to the correct person.--E-Bod 02:13, 3 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Noteable Alumni withough articles

Uhhh...

I don't think Liza Minnelli, Yoko Ono, or... "Awesome-O" graduated from SHS. Yeah... so you're going to want to fix that. I would, but since I don't go to this "school" anymore, I really don't care. --HarroSIN 15:27, 7 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Also, the Griffins need to be reverted to their original actual alumni list. I tried and failed to do that. Apologies. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.30.3.122 (talk) 19:03, 28 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yoko Ono's wiki page says that her family lived in Scarsdale while she attended high school in Japan. She moved to Scardale AFTER she graduated and attended Sarah Lawrence College.

Liza Minnelli's bio on Turner Classic Movies' website says that she attended The School of the Performing Arts in NYC and dropped out at 16: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/participant.jsp?spid=132579 . Her bio on Biography.com confirms this: http://www.biography.com/articles/Liza-May-Minnelli-9409583 . Her bio on Hollywood.com, though, suggests that she attended Scarsdale High School prior to attending The School of Performing Arts: http://www.hollywood.com/celebrity/193598/Liza_Minnelli_Biography . 66.45.149.52 (talk) 20:45, 24 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Athletics

Why does this section even exist? It's simply a table of teams and there is nothing notable to say about them. If it does exist it should at least be listed last since alumni are actually notable. Crazyjoe (talk) 17:31, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's been a year and no one has said why this section should exist so I've removed it. Crazyjoe (talk) 20:25, 6 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. Wikipedia is "not a complete exposition of all possible details."[4] — Satori Son 20:40, 6 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The reason why is that athletics take an unusual cultural importance in American high schools compared to secondary schools in other countries. In many other countries athletics developed outside of the schools, but in the US athletics developed within the schools. WhisperToMe (talk) 20:31, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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History with Japanese students in the 1990s

@48JCL:

Hi! I read this edit summary. The magazine article clearly shows that the content was related to the school climate in the 1990s, and describes the school's effort to change the climate. The article gives Wikipedia:Significant coverage to aspects about the school.

I am aware that WP:DUE is key here. The thing is that WP:DUE only considers coverage in independent reliable sources, and non-routine sources. The coverage of the school's climate in the 1990s (and readers and parents should understand this was an issue decades in the past, not today in 2024!) is an important aspect of the school's history.

High school articles need secondary sources to prove notability and to remain independent from their school district articles. The coverage in "The Japanning of Scarsdale" is evidence that Scarsdale High School should have an independent Wikipedia article, separate of that of the school district.

If one feels the history coverage is not comprehensive enough, the best solution is to add {{expand section}} as the content supporting the school's notability needs to stay in the article, but it also signals to readers that there is more to the school's history. WhisperToMe (talk) 20:22, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see any reason to remove that material. It's properly sourced, it concerns the school's history, and it may help explain why the number of Asian students is still so high (more than 22% as of 2023 per the NCES). Meters (talk) 21:01, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The content seems due, perhaps not for its own top-level section, but the article's body is underdeveloped. Meters, I attended SHS from 1992 to 1996 and was in the Scarsdale public school system from 1983 to 1996. There was indeed a influx of Japanese students (Japanese nationals from Japan) in the mid-80s to the early 90s, but a lot of Japanese students who had joined our class in elementary school in the 80s had moved back to Japan with their families by the time we got to high school in the mid-90s. I suspect most of the the Asian students at SHS nowadays are Americans of Chinese and Korean descent and likely the second or third generation of their families born in the US. Jweiss11 (talk) 22:20, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I wouldn't be surprised at all if the background of the current Asian students is different. In any case, it makes no difference to the usefulness of the historical information. Meters (talk) 22:34, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]