Talk:Deering High School

--Maoririder 18:20, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

The Rich People's High School
Can we add that this is really nothing more than the rich people's answer to not having to send their kids to PHS? It's basically the West Beverly High of Southern Maine. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.105.159.181 (talk) 15:10, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

The cleanup tag is an understatement
As it stands, it's probably a good candidate for deletion. Gossipy, disjointed and unsourced accounts of incidents and controversies of the kind that are in no way unique to Deering High. JamesofMaine 02:25, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
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 * Well, I was bold, and did the one thing I think of to improve this article: delete much of the existing text to allow for a fresh start. If anyone thinks this is too drastic, revert away. JamesofMaine 21:35, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm not complaining. alpha Chimp  laudare 21:53, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I am complaining. Some of the information destroyed is quite verifiable (as per the web site link). Some of it is definitely unverifiable, although, as a former student in Portland, all of it is true. Lets not throw the baby out with the bath water, so to speak.--Thomas.macmillan 00:04, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Regardless of the verifiability of these little tidbits, my question is: are they really noteworthy in the long run? Are they somehow unique to Deering?  I went to another public high school in Greater Portland, 10-plus years ago, and stuff on this scale went on there, too.  Crap like this goes on probably in thousands of public schools across the US.  In fact, this stuff is mild compared to what goes on in many schools.  There's nothing new or unique here.  My impression of this article as it stands is essentially a jumble of anecdotal-sounding accounts of apparently unrelated incidents, added by someone (possibly students) with the intent to put their school in a negative light.  Hell, I have nothing but bad memories from my own HS experience.  If Wikipedia existed back then, I'd probably be busy adding negative--but factual--information to an article about my school.  The point is, these incidents, real as they may be, don't justify Deering's notability as far as inclusion in Wikipedia (beyond stub-status anyway).  I'm looking at the big picture. JamesofMaine 00:35, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

DHS has 1365 students, not 1100
 * Easy enough to fix... if you see something like that, don't be afraid to change it yourself. JamesofMaine 00:32, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

I would like to personally apologize and state that I am the one who added the additional, "trivial" information to this article. My intent was not malicious but instead to state true facts and I apologize if anyone was offended or insulted by the content. I'll be more careful in my future article editing and expansion in the future. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by JValentine (talk • contribs).

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