Talk:Poplar Tree Elementary School

Assess
One of the few "mid" elementary schools. Well referenced. Some pictures from the school would balance this page towards the current education Victuallers 14:12, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Discrepancy
There's a discrepancy between the grade shown in the infobox and the one shown in the school's entry in the section Fairfax County Public Schools. Our article says K-5, while the public schools article says K-6. I'd love to correct it myself, but I'm not sure of the U.S. grade numbering system so I'm hesitant to make the change. Resurgent insurgent 02:59, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I believe it's K-6; I believe that in the Commonwealth of Virginia, elementary schools are always K-6 and middle (Intermediate) schools are always 7 and 8. ANSWER: THIS SCHOOL IS PRE-K THROUGH 6Cornince 22:28, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
 * The K-6 elementary school thing is specific to Fairfax County and a few others; most counties in VA have elementary school through grade 5, then middle school from 6-8. For example, Nottingham Elementary School (Arlington County, Virginia) in Arlington. Jamesr66a (talk) 23:36, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Seung-hui Cho (from 1995-1997?)
Judging from his age and birthday (and assuming the school is K-6), I would think that Seung-hui would have graduated from elementary school in 1996 (and earlier if this school is K-5). What source said he attended until 1997? Cornince 04:28, 25 April 2007 (UTC)


 * OK, correct me if the article is wrong. This is based primarily on the last reference, from Joon Ai Ilbo. What's explicitly stated therein is as follows:

I took three years starting from 1995 inclusive to mean Cho graduated in 1997. It's not directly stated in the article, though. &mdash;Resurgent insurgent 2007-04-25 13:13Z 
 * 1) Kim Gyeong-won was "friends for three years" with Cho.
 * 2) The "two met in the fifth grade at Poplar Tree Elementary School".
 * 3) "Kim said he arrived in the United States with his parents in 1995. His family moved to Atlanta when he entered middle school 10 years ago".

Unlucky School
Either this article is written pretty accurately and nothing positive goes on at this school, or the article focuses on all the negatives. This is a pretty morose look at the school. Can someone write some positives into the history of the school, because this sounds like a pretty depressing place. For now I'm going to tag it with a tag. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 01:57, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

this school is a good place — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thesharkjonas (talk • contribs) 19:05, 7 February 2018 (UTC)