Talk:American School of Tegucigalpa

Take your sycophancy elsewhere.
This article is horrendously written and requires a complete reboot in my opinion. To the poster below me: Wikipedia is not your vanity press, _nobody_ cares that you know X Latin American aristocrat or oligarch, and that you're so proud to have been part of an "elite" circle and need to come create hagiographies on the schools you attended on an encyclopedia intended for international viewing. You may think your article is boasting your school, but really it just sounds like silly and immature sycophancy to people who don't know/don't care about Honduran elites.

I don't know any of these people you're talking about, or care to know either; I just know they don't belong here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.216.62.74 (talk) 20:04, 14 March 2008 (UTC)


 * I totally agree with you, this article must be either rewritten or erased. Obviously the person who wrote this isn't well informed about Wikipedia. (Sunsetterxxx (talk) 20:49, 25 March 2008 (UTC))


 * Please feel free to delete or modify any part of the article that you deem against policy. The article has suffered a few edits and a lot of the controversial material was removed in the past. This is no an article with high traffic, so it would be very unlikely that tagging it only would help improve its quality.  Wikihonduras (talk) 17:34, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

The person who started this page
I started the page ( Tijuca 15:59, 18 March 2007 (UTC) ), and attended the school at the same time as ex-President, Carlos Flores, his sister, Celsa Flores, an artist now, as well as the sister of ex-President, Ricardo Marduro. At the time I attended the school, then President Oswaldo López Arellano's son was a student at the school. Several other ex-presidents'sl themselves, or their siblings and off-spring attended before my time in 1965 through 1967. I have the yearbook showing President Carlos Flores, Celsa Flores, and Anita Maduro as students, as well as the offspring of other ex-presidents. Ricardo Ernesto Maduro, the son of President Ricardo Maduro, also graduated from American School of Tegucigalpa, Honduras. A quick Google check will reveal he was a member of one of the classes. Many U.S. diploomatic corp dependents were enrolled in the school, as were the sons and daughters of other foreign embassies. They were my classmates. The Honduran students were the elite of the country.

The American Schools throughout Mexico, Central American, and in South America, are among the elite schools in each country. Each country has one or more. Other schools may claim to provide better educations, some do, and some may be more rigorous in their approach to education. However, NONE can boast of a more accomplished alumni.

I am the webmaster of the unofficial alumni web site http://www.stirlinglaw.com/teguc.htm


 * SO WHAT?? (Sunsetterxxx (talk) 21:24, 31 March 2008 (UTC))
 * All please recall Wikipedia policy regarding Talk pages. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Etiquette#How_to_avoid_abuse_of_talk_pages
 * Please as stated in policy, avoid personal attacks. Wikihonduras (talk) 17:35, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

and I know it's been several years. I will say Wikipedia articles do in fact list famous alumni. There would be a section "Famous alumni" and you list there. About the school's reputation the approach to take is to find newspaper articles that talk about the school's reputation and cite them. So-and-so-journalist says that ABC. See Liceo Mexicano Japones as an example. WhisperToMe (talk) 11:45, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

Reminder of Wikipedia Policy
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Please avoid failing to comply with policy.

Wikihonduras 23:26, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

This is the text that was removed (please see above where author expresses his current and past affiliation with the organization being edited:

"The American School of Tegucigalpa is the premier educational institution in Honduras. Presidents of Honduras, Honduran business leaders, families of diplomats from around the world, as well as the dependants of missionaries and U.S. military personnel are among the students who attend this school."

This is the rewrite that was added:

" The American School is considered one of the top choices among the economic and political elite in Tegucigalpa. Also it’s considered the most common choice among international and diplomatic missions accredited in Tegucigalpa.

Its alumni include:

Carlos Roberto Flores (Former President of Honduras) Ricardo Maduro (Formed President of Honduras. Attended for a few years but didn’t graduate) "

Wikihonduras 01:34, 19 March 2007 (UTC)