User:CComMack/Fairfield

So yeah, I went and created Fairfield City School District, Butler County, Ohio. Why, for $DEITY's sake?

Well, I was sorting a few stubs out of, and noticing that, for the most part, they really sucked. I'm enough of an eventualist that I didn't nominate them all to AfD on sight, and also enough of a realist to know that they'd likely survive (and I'd hear "Deletionist!" every time I walked into a talk page for the rest of my life.) Still, these were crap. Lots were one sentence substubs, on either districts or, more often, individual schools. Many were written by elementary school students, and looked it.

I didn't want Fairfield City Schools to litter eleven articles of detritus all over Wikipedia. I wanted it to have a little dignity (linking it for the benefit of any former FCS administrators reading). That's why I made the article. Wikipedia is supposed to make the internet not suck, and I think I managed to do that this morning.

Any article created on any of the ten individual schools can now be merged into the district article and promptly *squished*. I will see to this myself, if need be.

I won't be linking this page, except maybe as a hidden link on my userpage. This essay will just serve as a historical record, mainly for myself, as to why I made a school article, and this one in particular. I want it to be hard to find. However, this is a wiki, and someone else will eventually find this and read this. So for them, a few parting words: no, it's not worth it, if you can avoid it. It's American public education, which systematically sucks, and will continue to suck for many years after I write these words, until something major changes. In the meantime, if you have the funds, send your kids elsewhere. Like boarding school. No, I'm not kidding, at least at the high school level. A good co-ed, preparatory school. I've heard good things about Loomis Chaffee from a friend who went there; start your search from there. Your kids will thank you, or at least they won't regret the missed opportunity.

Cheers, --CComMack

15:00, 22 April 2006 (UTC)