Talk:Monsignor Bonner High School

Vandalism
This article needs a photograph, by the look of the vandalism, I guess there are some people who attend there who could make an account, take a photo, upload and put it in the article. Maybe even become a respected editor, who knows? --Alf melmac 21:02, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I just reverted wayyy back because the same IP and username alternately placed huge amounts of vandalism. --Adam (talk) 16:50, 18 January 2006 (UTC)


 * I can't believe people would do this!!!?!?!?!?!? GOD some people are so immature


 * It wasn't vandalism it was...making the site more interesting...Chuck Norris is really our president ok!!! so let us edit the GOD DAMN PAGE YOU MOFO - &mdash;The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.9.9.94 (talk &bull; contribs).

Oh noes! We changed a Wikipedia entry, and now some kid is saying we're immature! Look, it really doesn't help calling somebody immature when you can't even make the effort to spell check your damn comment.

-MH
 * sigh* This is the danger of making a wiki for a high school. Leave it be guys. I'm looking at you Blueman...

Concerning the principal...
Yeah, I'm one of the vandals, what of it? I thought I'd mae a serious comment here. To my understanding, Mrs. Mary Berner is to begin her role as the principal of Bonner and Prendie during this school year, rather than beginning next year. Perhaps somebody could look into this? --Ultraninja2damax5000 02:24, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

The appointment takes effect on July 1, 2006, but the administrators will begin preparing for this immediately. Until 1 July, she'll be running Prendie but preparing to take over Bonner. Until 1 July, Father Esposito will be running Bonner but preparing to take over Prendie.

Alright, we had our fun...
Hey guys, we had some fun messing around with the entry here, I think it's time we call it quits. The humor in changing things around here has worn off, so instead of beating a dead horse, why don't we let the fine folks here do their work? I'm going to be the first of the "vandals" to retire, and I urge the rest of you to do the same.

Editors: No hard feelings, good luck with the entry.

I laughed too
I went to an Augustinian school here in Sydney, and I am a great admirer of the order - but I had to laugh at the undergrad vandalism here. It WAS very funny - even if absolutley libellous. But please- try to keep it nice Cor Unum 11:36, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Leo Burt
Since there (appropriately) is no section for "infamous alumni", I'll just put a note here that Sterling Hall bomber Leo Burt is identified as a graduate of MBHS. He apparently had good intentions.... --Habap 17:01, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Criticism
According to some critics, single-sex schools produce an abnormally competitive, repressive, and abusive environment. I can attest from my experiences at bonnerhigh that every day for two school years, I was slapped, punched, pinched, spit on, pushed into lockers, had people wipe their feet on me, and was verbally and emotionally tortured with every audible form of assault you could possibly imagine. Guys tend to solve problems in one way: fight about it. Either you fight about it and prove your manhood or be subject to emotional torture as the outlet for the higher-order alpha males. The school administration was often unresponsive to reports of intimidation and abuse. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Matt2h (talk • contribs)


 * It's a shame that you suffered like this, Matt, but it is not characteristic of single-sex schools. It is just as possible at co-educational schools, which have the added distraction of the opposite sex and motivations for actions based on impressing the opposite sex. If my family had paid good money and I'd suffered the abuse you indicate, I'd be pretty pissed. I'm especially surprised that the administration would be unresponsive to charges of physical abuse in the 21st century. --Habap 10:45, 5 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Matt here is a thought...maybe you should have grown a pair and done something about it vice complaining on an internet website many years after the fact. Don't blame Bonner for your inability to stand up for yourself. --Looper5920 12:30, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

While the above message is noted, I think the editors should consider whether/not it constitutes a violation of the talk page guidelines. Thanks.


 * I'm thinking that he would of probably had the same experience elsewhere also. I'm doubting that this had anything to do with being an all male high school. When I went to bonner, the kids who were picked on by everyone else were just hardcore nerds. It would of happened anywhere, except you don't have the girls making fun of you too. You need to go back and reconsider other causes of your experience and stop blaming it on anything you can think of. fintler 14:58, 19 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Entering my Senior year at Bonner, I can honestly say that, while I"ve had my disagreements with people, and while they've neared physical confrontation, I never felt abused or repressed while attending.--Swiftblade21 14:47, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Australian Criticism
I read Matt's comments with interest. I was treated in a similiar way in the Augustinian school in Sydney (well, there were consistent attempts anyway- but I am articulate and also assertive). It was quite homophobic as an environment, and I have since confronted Australian friars about what I perceived to be their inaction about this active hompohobia by students (hindsight is always helpful of course). I consider these friars friends now I am an adult, and they deny ever approving of homophobic behaviour- saying this was of its time (I was at the school in Sydney between 1971-1978). I'm not convinced to be frank - I think they are excusing their "blind eye". Funny it should turn up in America too. Cor Unum 12:21, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Restored older version due to vandalism
A vandal edit duplicated many sections, and created 9 copies of the "History" section, all "mangled" in some way !!! Subsequent to that, some partial reversions were done - but the original damage remained.

Check the page history to see the sequence - at the point where the vandal made 2 consecutive changes, only one was reverted - the remaining one was the one which introduced the duplicate sections etc... This is the point where the article jumps from 12,269 bytes to 29,956 bytes in the history sequence.

I've restored the version immediately prior to the vandal's duplications and mangling - I don't think any information was lost, but any edits are still in page history if required.

I didn't restore the last 2 edits by Special:Contributions/98.214.27.47 that you will see in the history, because they looked like they would need a source or reference before introduction to the article.
 * (edited to add: when I looked, there is a source for those comments here fbi.gov page but I still question whether this article needs that level of information in its "Prominent Alumni" section, as interested readers can follow the link to the relevant article on the individual concerned).

thanks Begoon (talk) 12:59, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

Restored again
After a further spate of unpleasant vandalism yesterday I have checked back through the history, found that nothing constructive (but a great deal unpleasant and unconstructive) has happened since 5 April 2010, and decided that the best course was to delete the article and restore only the revisions up to that point. (I did not use the new WP:REVDELETE facility, which "is mainly intended for simple use and fairly recent material"). I have also semi-protected the article for two months which should take us to the end of the school year. JohnCD (talk) 09:13, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Looks like a good action. Everard Proudfoot (talk) 20:16, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

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