Talk:Thornlea Secondary School

message: Good Job "69.196.105.224" with creating this article with so much detail. Are you a current student at the school? I would only say that you seem to have a bias against student council. As a member of thornlea's student council, I will be taking a more indepth look and revising this article in the near future. --Esto 23:46, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: One or more parties seems to be intent on adding livejournal-type content to this entry. Does it need to be temporarily locked? Jasmol 21:44, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Persistent vandalism 

message: Any opinions on whether the "Lore" section meets Wikipedia standards? I've removed it for now. The various mentions of names and drug busts should probably be sourced if they're to be included.
69.196.105.224: Thanks for helping clear up the Lore section. Jasmol 22:29, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lore 

message: The  Famous Alumni section claims  Mike Myers attended Thornlea.  I've been unable to locate this information anywhere else.  Is this claim verifiable?  Rrburke 19:26, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I doubt it, since Mike Myers is a born and bread Canadian. (Narkstraws 23:38, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thornlea is in Canada.  --Rrburke(talk) 18:46, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mike Myers? 

message: === Established 1969 ===
Was the School established in 1969?  I'm pretty sure that it was 1968 or even 1967.
DHR 07:09, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  To Be Checked 

message: Was the School established in 1969?  I'm pretty sure that it was 1968 or even 1967.
DHR 07:09, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Established 1969 

message: "TSAC consists of six executive members and three appointed directors as well as three representatives from each grade." DHR 04:44, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Who appoints appointed TSAC directors?

message: Have not looked at this article in quite some time, but what happened? I cant believe how much it has been edited, and watered down, so to speak. The little insights written into this article were honest and accurate, and now all that has been taken out. For example, Thornlea is very much so a stereotypical highschool environment; social groups are greatly segregated with the white popular kids in the purple hallway, the etnics by the café, the Goths in the carpeted hallway and the music junkies by the music room. Although harsh, this is the reality there. Furthermore, drugs are incredibly abundant at Thornlea, the administration is a mess and TIP kids are idiots. Someone must work on this article and write the truth back in. I loved Thornlea because it was real…. This article has become a bunch of edited crap.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.55.145.185 (talk • contribs) 02:00, September 28, 2006 (UTC)
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As a former Thornlea student (graduated this June), I agree on that. Someone really wanted to cover up the negative side of Thornlea. TIP (Thornlea Intensive Program) absolutely gone unmentioned. It is a program designed to assist potential dropouts staying in school. I believe that they don't want to mention this so that people will not have an impression that we have this program because we got a lot of dropouts.
Criticisms about this school exceeds the overpopulation problem. This was not a problem until they shut down the portables due to a fungus crisis in a Marham high school where they found deadly fungus in a portable classroom. The problem is not the number of classrooms, it is the number of teachers that contribute to this problem. Most of the classes are now have over 30 students. If you walk through the hallway during 3rd or 4th period, you can find that many rooms are empty. Another example will be the newly renovated science classrooms (except one physics classroom and one chemistry). One of the science teacher told me that after the renovations, the # of science classrooms increased but the # of classrooms which are able to conduct chemistry experiments decreased as previously one room now cut into two smaller rooms. In my opinion, the physics room should be the top priority in the renovation. The ventilation of the room is bad because there's only a main door which opens outwards. In the past, teachers put something at the door to keep it ajar to allow some air to come in. That's until the fire marshal says it's a fire hazard and forbid anyone from doing so. Overcrowding shouldn't exist in our school. It's only that staff like to teach at rooms which are close to the department (e.g. math teachers teach in math classrooms and reluctant to teach in science classrooms, english teachers won't teach in geography department classrooms even though geograph classrooms are facing towards the english classrooms on the opposite side of the hallway)
According to the article, it mentions that smokers smoke at the pit and at reservoir (res). During my 4 years in the school, I have never heard of such a term call "the pit". Besides, smokers, including a few teachers and staff smoke at the northern boundary fence. If the staff smoke there, then it establishes an unwritten rule to everyone that you can smoke there without breaking the rules.
In summer, the air-conditioning (AC) was rarely turned on even when the outside temperature reaches 30 degrees Celesius. The reason being for that is because the custodians don't repair the AC prior to summer. When they find out something breaks down, they repair it and by the time they finish repairing, it's almost the last day of school. Why can't they check everything before hand?
Finding Ka-Boom and TSAC to read the edits of the article is pointless, really! None of the students in the school is aware of this problem other than a few that monitors this article. It does not represent the voice of the students. You guys may be granted rights to exclusively edit this page, but this is open source so everyone can write it. Oh yeah, there're so many discontinued clubs where their names appear in agenda. Here're some examples (pardon of me if they still exist)
- Astronomy Club
- Chinese Student Association
- Improv Club (what on earth is this club?)
To Mr Selby if he comes across this comment: This is Canada. Freedom of speech is a right stated in Charcter of Rights and Freedom. You can't stop us from posting criticisms. Here's a short quote for you:
(quote from MapleWiki admin)
"Did you know you will take roughly 30 seconds to vandalize any page and maybe even 30 minutes for a noobish vandalizer? Well, it takes me a mere 10 seconds to revert all your edits regardless if it's 30 minutes or 10 seconds. Don't waste my time or your time, there's nothing to gain in this."
(end quote)
We got lots of people to revert all your foolish attempts to edit out the negative comments. We know how to watch page and revert edits in 10s. We could have made it worse and bad-mouth the school by posting in forums where only topic creator and the moderators of the forum can modify the topic. 
OhanaUnited 02:44, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where did the truth go? 

message: I have not found anything regarding Gordon Korman going to Thornlea. His website does not indicate going to school in Ontario.  —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.108.61.125 (talk • contribs).
:Yes, he did for at least two school years, 1977-78 and 1978-79.  It's quite possible he was there for the full five years, but these two are the only ones I can recall for sure.  But that's WP:OR on my part, and there'd have to be verifiable and citable source offered in order to include it in the article.  --Rrburke(talk) 16:05, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Did Gordon Korman go to Thornlea? 

message: A large rock located near a set of school doors was an active drug trading spot -- namely hashish, marijuana, and LSD were readily available during the late 1980s. 2607:FEA8:F8E0:1520:5EF1:C266:454:A6D0 (talk) 15:53, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Now all we need is some reliable sources.   signed, Willondon (talk)  16:26, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Rock