Talk:Grand Island Public Schools

Deaf student incident
I see that an source was added regarding the incident with the deaf student. That's helpful, but it seems like a relatively small incident in the grand scheme of things - the sort of boneheaded move that schools everywhere seem to make from time to time and which receive fleeting new coverage. I don't think anyone - including the source - could really claim that this is what school district is best know for. I wouldn't be opposed to perhaps adding this in a "controversies" section, but I would need to less strident.-- Kubigula (talk) 03:48, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

Had you or anyone outside of Grand island even ever heard of this place prior to this incident making the NATIONAL news. I'd note that as "best known!" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.105.118.42 (talk) 21:04, 31 August 2012 (UTC)


 * We try to take a longer view of these things. It may be "best known" for a month or two, but it will not have any lasting impact.  Something like this will be totally forgotten in a year or less.-- Kubigula (talk) 17:00, 1 September 2012 (UTC)


 * An encyclopedia should not be a place where bad policy, dumb ideas or errors should be enshrined as a wall of shame: as Kubigula says, we should take a broader view and focus on enduring facts. We have this as policy on biographies, and it's a reasonable position to take on other topics. We often encounter such narrowly-focused edits about schools or school systems, and they are almost always of no lasting consequence.  Acroterion   (talk)   17:27, 1 September 2012 (UTC)