Talk:Rufus King International High School

This article mentioned Rufus King was part of the WPA. This information was probably taken from here:

http://www2.milwaukee.k12.wi.us/king/local/school.html

I doubt the accuracy of this. Construction of the school began in 1932 and it opened for students in 1934. The WPA didn't start until FDR's executive order of May 6, 1935. If someone has more detailed information on why someone would think the WPA had anything to do with King's construction I'd be interested in seeing it. It's possible someone got confused and they actually meant the Public Works Administration which was started in 1933. It's possible that some funding for the construction was made available in this manner. I've left the article a bit vague since I don't have any conclusive sources that attribute construction to the PWA.

sam 08:22, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

response to DBP
I will think about changing somethings, like the name, and I do understand your concerns about info overlapping but was not completely finished with my editing of the page. King's Realm began reproduction at the beginning of this semester, under the direction of Mr. Docktor. I will add to the forensics and athletic pages, because we do have more than just a basketball team, (King's about getting rid of urban stereotypes, not glorifying them). I will also get to the bottom of the General King bio, so people can chill out, and finally add info about fine arts and King's political and social active history in the last couple of years.

soccer team
I removed the reference at the top of the article to King's "globally ranked" soccer team. No disrespect to Jim McClure (he's an old friend of mine), but I'd like to see something to back that up. I found no references in a Google search. Also, it shouldn't be at the top, it should be in the athletics section if it's accurate.

Major edits of 29 December 2005
Hello all,

Great work on this entry! I hadn't even realized there was so much "forensics love" out there. When I think back to the "nothing" team we had when I was a student, all of this still feels surreal.

Much of what I updated is to ensure concise wording (i.e., "for the college bound" was dropped from our "offcial" name, and everyone knows a school name is going to be shortened -- this is an encyclopedia; not a slangtionary. Also, when you refer to a nickname for a school, it's usually in relation to the mascot.  For example, I went to Carroll College.  Our mascot was the Pioneer (Carroll is Wisconsin's first, or pioneer college).  Our nickname was the "Pios."  Nicknames like "K-House" and "Dynasty" are temporary and are more of a reflection of a current generation of students and school climate than the true fabric of a school that's been around for close to two-thirds of a century). Additionally, there were some grammatical and syntax errors that I just couldn't sit by as a teacher and abide. ;-)

On a related note, we have a new Web site that will be rolling out this next month -- www.rkhs.org. I don't know if the current webmaster has been notified yet, but it should be happening *officially* in the next week or so. I decided with all of the Web site updates, now would be a good time to edit this entry.

Finally, a special shout-out to my classmate, Sam Etler... c/o '95 represent!

Regards, Adam (That's Mr. Jacobi to you, Michael... or at least for the next five months).

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Advertising?
This article sounds A LOT like an advertisment, such as...

''The school promotes positive values in a culturally-diverse setting. Rufus King students are of many and varied interests, the heart of which is motivation to compete, achieve, and excel academically.''

I find nothing wrong with trying to advertise a school, but Wikipedia is for information. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bigbobon1 (talk • contribs) 14:37, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Major edits: 2010
I added a lot of new informaton (links, achievement and more) and re-formatted the infobox. --Zkomes (talk) 04:58, 23 July 2010 (UTC) Updated activities section --Zkomes (talk) 03:12, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

Missing RKMS info
Note, this is a duplicate of what I posted on the RKMS talk page.

FYI, the RKMS article is not complete, historically speaking. I think it is most appropriate there because, although the physical location is different, the name "Rufus King Middle School" is what those searching for info on it will most likely use instead of the address. However, some mention of this shared locale history might best be mentioned here to carry users to the RKMS page.

Back in the 1970s, Rufus King HS became a magnet (college prep) school and added a Middle School program (as far as I know, it ran from 1978-1981) at the 1801 W. Olive campus (the HS program was run side-by-side with it). As far as I can recall, the original RKMS was ended in 1981, but I don't know why. The RKHS College Prep program continued, including the IB program.

I tried to find some information on the original RKMS but, aside from incidental mention of it on places like Classmates.com, I couldn't find anything. I would imagine microfilm records in Milwaukee and Wisconsin newspapers would have plenty of mention of RKMS. Rufus King ranked on tests as the top public school in the city and beat out most private schools, too, in addition to performing very well in basketball (state champs at least once), choir and other competitions, as well as getting critical acclaim for some of its musicals and other performances.

I realize that documentation of these facts is required. Unfortunately, I divested myself of all the memorabilia from my time at RKMS and RKHS, aside from my class ring, so I cannot help - especially since I live in Indonesia now.ReveurGAM (talk) 04:39, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

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