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EiA

Still working on that? What about an EiA portal? Auroranorth (!) 13:01, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

I was just throwing out ideas - I don't really want to do it. Auroranorth (!) 05:06, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Take a look at Template:Infobox Education in Australia. Even though I didn't know how to replace 'province' with 'state', it still turned out OK. Auroranorth (!) 02:43, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Excellent work :) I made a few changes:

• Removed school board as not relevant to Australia
• Changed province to state and enrollment to enrolment per Australian convention

I didn't change the following:

• Grade -> Year
• Remove school district as only exists in the most formal of senses in Australia
• Are mascot, faculty, team name needed?

Orderinchaos 03:09, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Agreed on all counts. Auroranorth (!) 03:12, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Id hate to be a dampener on the great work that has been put into the infobox, but we already have two infoboxes dealing with Australian schools: Template:Infobox Aust school private and Template:Infobox Aust school, aswell as some schools even using Template:Infobox school (which they shouldn't). I like the template, it needs some working to become further in line with WP:SCH, but i just dont see any real use for it. Twenty Years 11:29, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

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Printer222 (talk) 05:47, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Re: Issues at a Private Christian School

I am sending you this message in reguard to that you said that you would like me to keep you posted about issues here. Since I first messaged you, there have been some more "sensative" issues that should be brought to the attention of the school community (ablit in a civilised way). Firstly a female student had became pregnant and she was told by the principal that if she wanted to stay at the school, she had to have an abortion or she would be expelled. I was discusted to hear this, especially at a Christian school. There are still issues with the management stealing school money and spending it on themselves. Also, there was an issue with teachers going to the toilets to have a smoke of a joint between classes, and teachers were turning up to school stoned as a rock and unfit to teach. At our bi-yearly camp the principal turned up with a bag of pot for the teachers to use. During the night, these teachers were having "an old fashioned lesbians pot party" said one of the teachers, wearing nothing but a g-string and a bra.

Once again, these issues were covered up by the principal, even though they were well publiscised. Some of the student rep. council have tried to organise meetings between students and the principal to acknowledge these issues, but all we have got is the run around. Is there any advice you could give us?

I know that it has nothing to do with wiki, I would like to hear your input, since you are a knowledgeable person.

Mabuhay,

--767-249ER (talk) 10:45, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. Once again there are no sources (seems pretty sus. don't you think!). The school is always opening up their cheque book to help seal some people's lips. Apart from the wiki article, could you give us any advice about how we could have a civilised talk with the management about these issues?

Thanks,

--767-249ER (talk) 10:54, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Thats a good idea, but there's only one problem- the state minister's kids attend this school, and he has given large tax-deductable donations to the school, and they have been doing some dirty bookwork, or 'cooking the books'. I can't explain to you how corrupt this place is and they have everything covered up or fixed so they wont get caught. Still do you have any advice for us?

--767-249ER (talk) 11:07, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

I don't think that by leaving it's going to fix the problem. I have less than one year left at this place, and I am not giving in to the corrupt and illegal management. Most of these issues don't effect me directly, but it's pretty poor that a christian school gives people so much trouble.

--767-249ER (talk) 23:24, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your advice. I have talked about things with my friends about what we could do about trying to settle these issues in a civilised manor, but all we have thought of is having a revolt and forcing the principal to resign, and making the school communist to get rid of all the bad eggs. Do you think this is a bad idea? The thing you said about the campaign is a good idea, but I don't have the support and the school would probably just kick me out for trying to uncover their corruption. Also, I'm not sure about to start a website, do you have any tips or advice?

You are starting to feel like a very close friend to me, and I really appriciate all the help and advice you have given to me, and I encourage you to keep up the good work on Wikipedia.

--767-249ER (talk) 03:26, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

I didn't know that there were any websites like that around, thanks for showing me that. Your idea about the schools board or parent council is good but a lot of the "problem parents" are members of these groups and they would never allow any changes that effect themselves happen. My friends and I were going to run for school prefects earlier this year, but somehow, we "didn't meet the criteria" of the school. It would have been good if we got in because the people who were elected are a bunch who just want to wear the $2 badge! The principal who is behind most of these issues personally chose these people because they will take all of his crap. I like your idea about the 'letter to the editor', if I wrote in, I know a fair number of parents and probably students would read it and it would have a big impact. Can you give me some ideas that I could write in the letter about.

P.S. Why couldn't we start a revolt?!

Cheers,

--767-249ER (talk) 04:41, 11 December 2007 (UTC)