User talk:Ajctx

January 2018
Hello, I'm Billhpike. I noticed that you removed topically-relevant content from Lakehill Preparatory School. However, Wikipedia is not censored to remove content that might be considered objectionable. Please do not remove or censor information that directly relates to the subject of the article. If the content in question involves images, you have the option to configure Wikipedia to hide images that you may find offensive. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. Billhpike (talk) 13:22, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

You are making an insinuation that is not relevant and not true. The facts are that over 1/3 of the kids who went to the school when it was founded were from North Dallas and not even in the district dealing with the issues your are associating. There were lots of issues facing public schools in 1971. Drugs started entering schools and parents wanted to get kids away from that. Other private schools were Church based and parents didn't want kids in a religious school and there were not many other options. Also, to start a new school takes at least a year if not a few years, and planning was in place long before 1971 when the courts ordered the desegregation of DISD. Many schools were started in that era, and in every era when bad things occurred, and by posting something like that in the main header 'about the school' as one of the first things one will read learning about the school, when it is a coincidence based on what I know of the school, (and the diversity and inclusion that exists today,) is damaging to all the kids that are applying to Universities and their admissions. It is a small school, so some Universities have not heard of it, and admissions boards do research when receiving applications from high schools they have not seen before. This theory you posted based on timing alone, can hurt these children's chances of getting into a good college when the admissions board reads the line you seem to want to include and thinks, Texas, segregation, Red State, Racism... whatever... and defaults to the same thinking you are showing by posting it vs giving the kid a look. It is an irrelevant and an unproven allegation of yours. Do you post what was happening in the news in every other organizations page based on the founding date/time in the first paragraph of the organization? This does not belong on the schools wikipedia page. It is not topically relevant. This page is about the school and how good it is for kids who need the academic challenge, smaller diverse community, teacher attention, and structure of this sort or university preparatory environment. Did you know they had a Holocaust survivor/speaker come to reinforce their teaching the kids to stand up against hate? Do you know they have many minorities and LGBT kids and they are all friends with the white 'privileged' kids? They school is doing it right for what we all want for our kids today. This school does not deserve your target for whatever agenda you have against a terrible time in Dallas history. Just because it was founded in 1971, does not automatically make it topically relevant to address the issues Dallas ISD was facing that year. Coincidences of other events occurring are not topically relevant. Those can be found on many other pages when someone wants to research those topics. Ajctx (talk) 02:22, 9 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Hello Ajctx -- Thank you for your interest in and passion about Lakehill Preparatory School. You said. "I removed topically irrelevant and misleading information posted to hurt the schools reputation." The paragraph in question describes events of fifty years ago and is supported by independent secondary sources. It does not imply anything about the school's current position. It does not impugn the school any more than observations that Texas was once a member of the confederacy or that Japan was once an enemy of the United States.


 * As to the specifics in 1971, you are invited to supplant your argument above with citations from independent and reliable sources. I note that in 1970, the Internal Revenue Service announced it could "no longer legally justify allowing tax-exempt status to private schools which practice racial discrimination." The matter was of sufficient national interest that the Supreme Court heard Coit v. Green in 1971 and affirmed the IRS' position. The rise of private schools in the period was a nationwide phenomenon. Scholars estimate that at least half a million white students were withdrawn from public schools between 1964 and 1975 to avoid mandatory desegregation. In the same way you describe the challenges Dallas faced in 1971, the article points out the defining event for DISP in 1971. It does not assert cause and effect. It is, however, topically relevant.


 * As to the effect that the Wikipedia article has on public perception, I would like to point out that it is not the purpose of an encyclopedia article to serve the promotional needs of the school. I trust college admissions personnel to understand that the events of two generations ago are likely not relevant to an admission decision today. In any case, the school has a website on which it is free to publish whatever it chooses.


 * I did move the contested paragraph from the lede to a History section. If you are not connected with the school (WP:COI), you are free to edit with all the standard Wikipedia provisos. That includes refraining from repetitive edit-revert cycles. Rhadow (talk) 08:42, 9 January 2018 (UTC)