Talk:Aiken High School (South Carolina)

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Some Changes...

I deleted the portion of the article dealing with drug dealings. Obviously, someone had a message they wanted to get across, but it should be done 1.) through proper channels and 2.) with a degree of nuetrality. If the only information worth mentioning about Aiken High (of which I am an alumni) is that it has drug-related problems, something needs to be done/changed.

Thanks for doing so. I do not know why anyone would post that stuff here. Aiken HS is a great school, but it is not a perfect one, of course. -- Art Lader

Poorly sourced and promotional edits

Pertaining to school teams, have been restored multiple times by a self-professed COI account [1]. I've attempted to bring the article closer to guidelines, and asked for a user block. 73.159.24.89 (talk) 02:36, 7 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I removed the academic section as a hot mess. A vague allusion to an academic team (what's that), regular and NJROTC (there's something irregular about the Navy? Besides which, we do not generally include content on general courses of study, and we never should unless they've been the subject of discussion in reliable secondary sources), a whole lot on VEX robotics (which isn't academics at all) and some garbage about a single class setting a record for most scholarships awarded (first, a school record would never belong here and second, scholarships are awarded to students. Achievement of individual students or staff are not about the school). I'll also be removing the highly misleading bit in the lede about being in the top 5% in the country. That's just plain promotional. The fact that the undated local source referenced was that at some unknown (as the source story was undated) time, this school got a ranking of 363 in the Newsweek school rating. We cannot use that because we do not have a verifiable date. If someone knows what year and wants to dig up an archive copy of the actual Newsweek poll, as long as it is reasonably recent (like post 2014), I have no objection to including that in an academics section (not the lede), as long as the latest Newsweek number (or the fact that the school was unranked, whichever applies) is also included. I'll work on sources for athletics. John from Idegon (talk) 04:40, 7 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Is the band section encyclopedic? The honors don't appear notable, and the only source is a blog. 73.159.24.89 (talk) 11:44, 7 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

And I'm pretty certain Gregory Ryan Priest isn't notable. 73.159.24.89 (talk) 11:45, 7 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Cambridge

Thanks for the feedback. I found an additional source stating that Aiken High is South Carolina's first Cambridge school. Can this be added to the article? https://www.aikenstandard.com/education/aiken-high-to-become-state-s-first-cambridge-international-school/article_730db4ee-39af-11e7-989d-7389062c71b8.html JohnsonJ10 (talk) 17:44, 11 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]