Talk:Cowley Academy

Edit 9 January 2015
Within the edit I've added all 'Notables' as from the Grammar School, which they were, although independent non-Thomas Cowley High School sources are needed to support them. I've copy edited to remove a perhaps dubious flow of history so as not to conflate earlier schools with the present - in many school articles (and schools themselves) a present manifestation reaps in for its historical embellishment and aggrandizement a past history (this quite divorced from the present status of the school), on the basis of location or a perhaps questionable time line. Here is a history of a 1719 charity school leading to one ending 65 years ago being appropriated by a current school that seems to have no educational, philosophical, and perhaps even building/location attachment to what it states to be its history. This is a very common occurrence. An instance of historical spin is Matthew Flinders who attended Cowley's Donington charity school in the 18th-century until age 12, after which he went to Horbling Grammar School. Through a tenuous link this present-day school claims him. Acabashi (talk) 21:47, 9 January 2015 (UTC)