Talk:Gunn High School

message: Gunn got some good press recently for its response to the Westboro Baptist Church, which visited this year. I think it's one of the things Gunn is known for now; Ellen DeGeneres even mentioned it in her Twitter feed. I think we should mention it.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.180.80.147 (talk) 15:35, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for bringing that up. I've now included this on the page.(Madaldal (talk) 22:08, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Westboro Baptist Church Visit 

message: I came here about a year ago and there were several other sections, I think called Pranks, Issues, and Trivia, respectively. The article now seems substantially shorter. Was the other material not noteworthy, or unnecessary in a high school article? Some off the information seems to have been consolidated into the other sections, and some of it has been removed. 134.69.36.173 (talk) 09:38, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Previous Editions (Pranks, Issues, Trivia) 

message: :--UCOT (talk) 17:48, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should the section below be added? 

message: In recent months, a number of Gunn High School students have committed suicide (or attempted to commit suicide) by stepping in front of a moving train.  
* Palo Alto Weekly Article
* SF Gate Article
* NBC Bay Area Article
* LA Times Article
This sad news has united the community, but so far all attempts to find the cause or change the situation seem to have failed.
Apparently there is a new Facebook support group Gunn High School – Life’s A Good Thing, but a Facebook search does not find the group.
- Hey previous poster, I found the group here: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=164025517102
134.69.180.207 (talk) 11:33, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The news has reached International outlets at this point. I have made an effort over the years to keep this important part of Gunn's history in the article. There seems to be a concerted effort by some in the community to rewrite this history of the school. There's no room for that sort of bias on Wikipedia; removal of reference to the suicides is the same as asking for a "reads like an advert" template. It's tragic, but these days when news of Gunn makes it past the local rags into national/international outlets, it's typically because there's another suicide; not because of its wonderful robotics, theatre, etc programs. I ask that others please help me in monitoring the page for any who attempt to remove it again (it's currently a paragraph in the "history" section).   Whatwillhappen (talk) 10:06, 14 February 2016 (UTC)

text: Unless sources like the Atlantic article can be found, I see nothing to tie these deaths to the school. It's a public school. There are certainly many other commonalities shared by the kids that killed themselves beside the school.  As the copy mentions that this is not the only school in the district that has had this issue, why is it about the school at all? Perhaps it is about the community? If they didn't do it at the school, if there is nothing written about any investigation of the school's role in the causes, how is it about the school at all? John from Idegon (talk) 13:34, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Hanna Rosin addressed that in her article: she stated that Gunn is known for its competitive academic environment and parents wondered whether that was the cause. I'm not sure there will ever be a report saying that with certainty, but Wikipedia should base these things on the sources (like Rosin's article). WhisperToMe (talk) 01:07, 31 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Suicides

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*Added archive https://web.archive.org/20090612035135/http://www.newsweek.com:80/id/201160/?q=2009/rank/1 to http://www.newsweek.com/id/201160/?q=2009/rank/1
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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I heard in a news report that the CDC was investigating suicides at Gunn.  I went to Wikipedia to learn what it was about, but found very little information.  I propose adding some information and links as follows:
Gunn High School received national attention in 2009 after five of its students committed suicide over a span of nine months, mainly by walking in front of trains at a nearby crossing. As a result, steps have been taken to limit access to the tracks. Attempts have since been made to try to improve the emotional health of students attending the school. , cluster suicide has remained a problem in the district's high schools.
In February 2016, a team of suicide prevention specialists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) paid a two week visit to the area to determine risk factors.
Comfr (talk) 01:13, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Subject of more national media coverage 

message: The Statistics section is outdated, should new data be added in place, or added below?
2023-2024 statistics: https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1698704132/pausdorg/n2npnfejvueyjdj1evjc/SchoolProfile2023-2024.pdf Eason Y. Lu (talk) 07:08, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Update Statistics Section