Talk:Towson High School

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JGHowes 10:31, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Soccer results in 2006
Someone keeps inserting false information that Towson HS was boys soccer co-champions in 2006: this is false and I have reverted it (again). According to the Towson Times of November 16, 2006, Towson HS lost the semi-final match to Mt. Hebron:

...as Towson witnessed firsthand in a Class 3A state semifinal last week ... providing Mt. Hebron with enough offense to outlast the defending state co-champion Generals, 2-1, at North Point High School in Charles County.  JGHowes talk  -  04:11, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Blue Ribbon school?
In this article's recent B-class assessment, the reviewer noted that the Blue Ribbon school designation was unsourced. I checked the Baltimore County Public Schools webpage of Blue Ribbon schools here and the U.S. Dept. of Education's online list of Blue Ribbon schools and did not find it on either list. Upon inquiry to the school administration, I received an email today from a school official advising that THS has not received a Blue Ribbon designation. This inaccuracy is now corrected.  JGHowes  talk  18:29, 3 October 2008 (UTC)


 * 2011 Update: That may have been true in 2008, however in 2011, THS is listed as both a National No Child Left Behind Blue Ribbon School and a Maryland Blue Ribbon School of Excellence (link/ref?) as mentioned on the BCPS Blue Ribbon Schools list, so we can update the page again to include these. jwilkinson (talk) 21:11, 9 December 2011 (UTC)


 * 2011 Award Additions: on the BCPS Individual School Honors page, (when selected to the 2010-2011 school year), it lists a long paragraph of details of awards for THS. I'll include it here for reference.  I don't know how much of this should be included, nor how much rewording is required.  Help always appreciated.  Thanks.  jwilkinson (talk) 21:11, 9 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Quoted from Baltimore County Public Schools, Individual School Honors, 2010-2011 school year: "The Maryland State Department of Education announced in December 2010 that Towson High School in Towson is one of six schools throughout the state to be named a 2010 Maryland Blue Ribbon School of Excellence. Towson High School becomes the 15th Baltimore County public school and the third high school in Baltimore County to receive this honor. In addition, for the past several years, Newsweek magazine has named Towson High School to its annual list of the best high schools in the nation. According to MSDE, Towson High students are 98 percent proficient and above in math and 99 percent in English. Seventeen percent of the seniors rank in the top 5 percent of students in the state, and more than 76 percent of students take the SAT. State officials will submit the school's achievement record for a national Blue Ribbon designation. Awardees will be announced by the U.S. Department of Education in fall 2011. As a Maryland Blue Ribbon School of Excellence, Towson High, which is in the top 15 percent of Maryland schools as measured by the Maryland School Assessments, will be honored by State Superintendent of Schools Dr. Nancy S. Grasmick and other dignitaries at a banquet scheduled on March 14, 2011 in Annapolis and with a special tribute by the Maryland General Assembly. Towson High will receive more than $6,000 in technology equipment from Smart Technologies, $1,000 from MSDE and its corporate sponsors, and a school-wide pizza party from Joe Corbi's Pizza."

Zack Merrick, notable alumni
Whether Merrick is listworthy in this school article's alumni section versus demonstrating individual notability for a stand-alone article (per WP:Notability (music)) should be considered separately (see this discussion ). Under these circumstances (viable redirect, press coverage, member of a notable band, verifiable school attendance) I'd argue he is at least worthy of inclusion on the alumni list for navigation and development utility (LIST) and is sufficiently notable under WP:BIO versus the criteria for a stand-alone article. – Zedla (talk) 23:40, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
 * WP:BIO appears to say (quite explicitly) that people must be notable in the wikipedia sense to be listed. WP:BAND quite clearly states that "members of notable bands are redirected to the band's article, not given individual articles, unless they have demonstrated individual notability for activity independent of the band". Several attempts to create an actual page for Zack Merrick page have failed to supply any actual claim of notability, let alone support for it, so we always wind up back at a redirect for a non-independently-notable person to the notable thing with which he's associated. The band does appear to be notable and does have a viable page, but none of the coverage listed or that I could find makes a case for this member being notable himself (just discussed in context of being one of the band members). Without clear demonstration of notability he doesn't seem notable; per guideline in this area, we default to non-notable; per guideline for this page, he generally should not be listed. DMacks (talk) 02:37, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Agree with DMacks, notability of a band does not confer individual notability on band members, whether for a bio or an alumni list, according to the guideline. BTW, the other All Time Low band members are likewise regularly added/reverted at Dulaney High School, too.  JGHowes   talk  05:55, 27 October 2008 (UTC)