Talk:Washburn High School

Puffery?
This part in the 2nd paragraph seems meaningless puffery, not encyclopedic, and should be deleted: The 2008-2009 staff and students are enthusiastic about a year of academic, athletic and artistic activities for a well-rounded high school experience. —Preceding unsigned comment added by T-bonham (talk • contribs) 07:59, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

Basic Update History

 * Correct infoboxes added.Calebrw (talk) 01:54, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Many references added. — Calebrw (talk) 22:49, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Additional references, updated infobox and additional information added. — Calebrw (talk) 21:37, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

References to add
Just storing these here to use in a history section
 * Has a really good history, normally school sites aren't that good but this one is pretty informative.
 * Has a brief history of the school.
 * this pdf and this one are pretty interesting. They're old reports about Washburn. There used to be a very good site about the History of Minneapolis Public Schools. It's down right now but here is the cache. Schools Cache of History of Minneapolis Public Schools
 * Has a brief history of the school.
 * this pdf and this one are pretty interesting. They're old reports about Washburn. There used to be a very good site about the History of Minneapolis Public Schools. It's down right now but here is the cache. Schools Cache of History of Minneapolis Public Schools

Assessment
As an assessor for WikiProject Schools it has been requested I take a look at the article. I am first re-assessing it to Mid importance, I think the alumni of which many are notable enough for their own article make a good case for that. I think this article should retain B-class at present, the comments in the peer review show how this article could get to GA class which is within striking distance now. My additional comments our that it is a well written article without to many lists and unreferenced content. Try and add more references to the campus section if possible, and possibly move the current image in the infobox there, adding the school fair use logo to the infobox as done for most school articles. Camaron | Chris (talk) 10:50, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Exchange students
in the academic year 1986/87 I was an exchange student at Washburn (and actually graduated from that school). As far as I remember, in that year there were up to 7 or 8 exchange students from countries as Austria (that was me), Germany, Brasil and I think Philippines and others. I wonder if that was a normal ratio at a school like Washburn in a city like Minneapolis? Are there still a higher number of exchange students each year at that school? Is it something special, or is this something quite normal? Can anyone please make some research on that? Stoffl.s (talk) 22:44, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Ramsey
What happened to Ramsey Junior High, with which Washburn was paired - and with which it shared the athletic field and track? Sca (talk) 20:37, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

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Naming of the School
This article says, in the History section: "When the school was presented to the school board it was called "William D. Washburn High School", in reference to the brother of Cadwallader C. Washburn, however naming the school after William D. Washburn is thought to be an error."

The 70th anniversary edition of school newspaper (published I suppose in 1999, since that would be the 70th anniversary), The Grist, reprinted an article on page 6 from September 20, 1929: "Old Washburn Home Torn Down for New Senior High School". The 1929 article notes that Cadwallader Washburn left money to his brother, W.D. Washburn, "to be used for an orphans' home." It was this orphans' home that was sold in August, 1929 (according to this same article) "to make way for a new high school." Since the property where the school was built was associated with W.D. and not Cadwallader, it is not unreasonable to think that the school was named for W.D. In later years, Cadwallader was much more famous, which may have led to the assumption that the school was named for Cadwallader.

https://washburn.mpls.k12.mn.us/uploads/70th_anniv_grist_pages_1-14_of_20.pdf

Michael Hurwicz (talk) 18:56, 14 July 2020 (UTC)