Talk:Oxford High School, England

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Speaking as a pupil of oxford high school I would like to express my opinion on this matter. I feel that Oxford High School is an unique and wonderful school where there is not pressure on the pupils as such but the teachers push the pupils to their limits to enable that the pupils fufill their full potential in life. I would also like to say the the percentage of pupils attending Oxford High School is very much lower than the percantage at Headington School.

As a pupil for almost nine years, I agree that the school is highly competetive, highly academic and not always a very fun place to be because of that. However, I wouldn't say that the school's atmosphere is actually "oppresive and threatening", and more to the point that is not factual, so I have removed that and rewritten the addition of information about the Freud case in a more balanced way.

I have also heard mental health workers make the accusations (mentioned in the 5th May edit) that the school has an unusually high rate of eating disorders, but I do not believe they are statistically supported- indeed, I would be surprised if we had a higher rate of eating disorders than, for example, Headington School. The school's atmosphere isn't entirely the fault of the school- it's pushy parents that send their children there and pushy parents that make their children overcompetetive and anorexic. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 195.93.21.70 (talk • contribs).

I'm concerned about the lack of evidence for some of the claims being made in this article - if those who made them could post links or cite sources for their claims, even if only on the discussion page here, then we can cite them properly in the article - however, if these claims do not have any evidence to support them they will need to be removed. --Firetrap 23:02, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Hello, this is another user, a student who currently attends Oxford High School. In response to Fire-twat, it must have been difficult for him, being male, to experience the all-female environment but, nevertheless, congratulations are due for being able to acheive this feat. I think the pieces of information we have added reflect the opinions that many many people who actually go to OHS share. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 212.137.62.225 (talk • contribs).

Ah, a reply! Good to see that some people are looking to the talk page of this article :) It is indeed a single sex school for women, and, as quickly deduced, I don't go there, no (although, to say it is an "all-female enviroment"[sic] would be wrong, with male staff being employed, and I am not without knowledge of the facility myself). My problem lies not with the fact that people hold that opinion, but with the fact that it is just that - an opinion, and I have yet to see any factual evidence that supports this POV, although I realise that this may be hard to come across if it does not exist. Thanks for the input though, if not the nature it was presented in! --Firetrap 15:53, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Okhehehey....why did you say you went to the school in your first entry but in the second you deny this point. I think as an ACTUAL student of the school my opinion should be more highly valued than yours- some random guy who decided to post here claiming to be a student in an all-female school. We would like to add, some people here seem to like you- i'm just a sadistic sarcastic bitch who thinks you're a perverted freak everyone else would like to apologise for my statement, no one else seems to have this opinion of you- please refer back to the above for my reasoning as to why i called you this (sadistic sarcastic bitch) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 212.137.62.225 (talk • contribs).

And here in lies the trouble with not signing your messages off! If you check the page history, the first two paragraphs were not posted by myself, coming from a different IP address than the IP address I post under - to emphasise the different posters, I have added tags to the end of each person's post - to do this yourself, you can simply click the "Your signature with timestamp" button at the top of the edit window when you have finished writing your reply. I hope this removes any confusion over supposed contradictions! Again I emphasise that the comments you added to the page were removed because they were simply your opinion, and were unsubstantiated by any factual evidence, as you so carefully stress in your last reply. --Firetrap 20:36, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

As the first user to comment on this discussion page (though my IP address will show up as different), I have been trying to make this article more factual. I go to OHS too (Y13), and I don't like the place, but just because you have a personal connection to somewhere doesn't mean you can write your or someone else's opinion in an encyclopaedia and try to pass it off as a piece of information. Save the name-calling and lesbian gossip stories for Bebo.

Firetrap- Could the citation for the Freud case be the newspaper article which is linked to at the bottom of the page? --195.93.21.8 21:26, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

195.93.21.8 / 195.93.21.70 - I'd read The Independent's article but it'd slipped my mind when adding the tag - many thanks for pointing that out! I've added a direct link to the article rather then establish an entire "Sources" section for the OHS page (whilst still leaving the link under the External links section) - there aren’t enough sources at the moment to warrant an entire new section for sources, imo at least - if anyone thinks otherwise though, do say! Again, many thanks for pointing that out :) --Firetrap 19:09, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

oxford high school
You're supposed to discuss the article, not the school. I am wary about quoting the school fees in the article because these vary depending on the age of the student- junior, senior and sixth-form fees are all different. It would be good to note that OHS fees are relatively low compared to similar schools, although I don't know what could be used as verification for this. BeehiveC 19:35, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

@BeehiveC Its cheaper than Headington - :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Floandthemash (talk • contribs) 18:35, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Categories for discussion: nomination of various 'Former pupils' categories
The 'former pupils' category associated with this school has been nominated for renaming, along with all similar categories. Comments are invited at the categories' entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Occuli (talk) 15:22, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Requested move 14 March 2019

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: Moved. (non-admin closure) samee  converse  01:04, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

– Per WP:PRECISION the first 2 definitely need moving since see there are other high schools in other Oxfords listed at Oxford High School and Derby High School. I am proposing moving the 1st to use "England" per WP:UKPLACE ("When the city and county use variants of the same name, disambiguate with England for clarity throughout the English-speaking world; thus Lincoln, England, not Lincoln, Lincolnshire."), see User:Crouch, Swale/England/Naming conventions for more info. While it is true that for places unquestionably part of a larger settlement are disambiguated by that settlement rather than the county (such as Chapeltown, Leeds) it is normal to fall back to the county when there is an overlap with the larger settlement's name (usually for buildings) such as Spalding High School, Lincolnshire. The 2nd is proposed using "Derbyshire" (instead of "England") since there is Derby High School, Bury in Greater Manchester similar to Bedford High School, Bedfordshire/Bedford High School, Leigh. The 3rd is proposed since there is an overlap with "Northampton" and "Northamptonshire" and there isn't another Northampton High School in England. I haven't proposed moving Shrewsbury High School, Shropshire per Lancaster, Lancashire. Note that if the proposals to use "England" are rejected for the 1st and 3rd, the 1st should instead be moved to Oxford High School, Oxfordshire.  Crouch, Swale  ( talk ) 20:46, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Oxford High School, Oxford → Oxford High School, England
 * Derby High School, Derby → Derby High School, Derbyshire
 * Northampton High School, Northamptonshire → Northampton High School, England
 * Support per nom. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:38, 20 March 2019 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Junior section of the school
This page states that the junior section opened in 1989. This is misleading or possibly untrue. I attended the school from 1972-1979 and during that time there was a 2 year junior section but some of my cohort at the school had attended the junior section from a younger age, as I recall. Maybe the junior section then closed and re-opened in 1989? Also I note that Ghislaine Maxwell’s Wikipedia page says that she attended OHS until age 9 so she must have been in the junior section at that time. - Mary Percival (née Jolliffe) MaryPercival (talk) 17:11, 25 July 2022 (UTC)