Talk:Rainier Beach High School

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This claim of an 87% graduation rate is a classic example of how to lie with statistics. Such a crass, glaring whitewash sweeps under the rug four years of steady dropouts among the kids in this school.

The Seattle School District got into trouble with the State of Washington for publishing inflated graduation statistics exactly like this. In recent years the official statistics have been partially cleaned up, although many of the district's published claims still have a substantial tinge of statistical cherry picking and walnut shell swapping.

And here again we have a whitewasher of the same ilk still at work in the statistical vineyards, pulling the wool over the public's eyes in exactly the same way that the district did for many years.

The Seattle Times' current reporting figures a 37% on-time graduation rate at Rainier Beach High School, and I believe they compute it in a much less tricky and more honest way. Rstevec (talk) 12:25, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: Move. Jafeluv (talk) 07:01, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

Rainier Beach High School (Seattle, Washington) → Rainier Beach High School – There is no other Rainier Beach High School. Admin must move this because of a redirect. •••Life of Riley (T–C) 21:33, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Support - unnecessary disambiguation. This should be uncontested.  Clearly the primary (only) topic.  --Born2cycle (talk) 00:54, 31 March 2012 (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. No further edits should be made to this section.

NPOV
Someone has replaced the discussion of the historical TAF controversy, which cited contemporary newspaper articles of the time, with an unsupported revisionist puff piece that reads like a TAF public relations employee wrote it (and I believe that will turn out to be the case). The wholesale replacement of the older section, which noted TAF's questionable actions at RBHS but also cited its later more successful project in in Federal Way, is itself reminiscent of what many parents viewed as TAF's less than honest tactics during the RBHS controversy. That TAF is now rewriting local history in this way is, I think, unethical. The community was unusually angered by TAF's conduct at the time, and many parents protested vehemently to the School Board. I have added a NPOV tag to the rewitten section. Because I lived in that neighborhood for years and cared about this, I'll leave it to others to decide this issue objectively. - Rstevec — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rstevec (talk • contribs) 00:04, 24 October 2012 (UTC)