Talk:The Bolles School

message: *Complete article is taken from http://www.bolles.org/about.
*Obviously, because it it taken from the school's official site, it does not have a NPOV.
--Russ is the sex 06:54, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copied off of Site/NPOV Issue

message: Instead of simply posting what you would wish for the public to see, lets get some facts. This page has absolutely no sources and does not live up to wikipedia's standards of writing or formatting. This seems like an advertisment.
Teimu.tm 22:47, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  This is absolutely biased. 

message: Someone added paragraphs about students being bullied and rules not being enforced.  He also added that Bolles never expels students from wealthy families and doesn't enforce its honor code.  This is not only false (or exaggerated), but extremely POV.  I have removed these paragraphs, and I hope no one will grind his axe on this page again.
--Hpanic7342 02:18, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please don't vandalize 

message: Someone clearly had a bad experience at the middle school and is continuing to grind his axe on this page.  Whoever you are (and you keep posting anonymously, you coward), I will continue to remove your posts about "hours of free time" and students bullying one another, because they're extremely POV.  Once you can cite any of these claims with references, I will stop. -Hpanic7342 02:51, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Again? 

message: Passages like this:
:The school has had significant success in academic competitions. Bolles perennially ranks among the best in state and national Spanish, French, and German competitions. Bolles's top math students have a history of distinguishing themselves at the local, state, and national level in competitions like Mu Alpha Theta. The school's engineering team perennially ranks among the top ten nationwide in competitions like JETS.
are NPOV paragraphs that do not objectively compare Bolles to anything.  Actual numbers instead of vague phrasing like "perennially among the best" would help.  dcandeto 21:53, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, that's better.  dcandeto 20:10, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Still NPOV 

message: I'm from the Jacksonville area. When I was younger, whenever I would be bad, my mother would say, "Shape up or you're going to The Bolles!" Of course, this would elicit sobs from me since my mother told me that The Bolles was a school where the kids lived in dorms and didn't go home for most of the week. Is this still true? Mike H. I did "That's hot" first! 18:38, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Something like 10% of the Upper School boards at Bolles, so yeah, they do live in dorms, and stay there year-round, like with any boarding prep school.  There's also an option to board during the week and go home on the weekends (usually for people who live in Florida or Georgia, but relatively far from Jacksonville).  By all accounts the living quarters for boarders are very nice.  Of course, the vast majority of students are only day students. -Hpanic7342 14:52, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: As a recent, former alum, I can tell you that there are a number of borders, but none of them local.  The vast majority of borders were foreign students, so of course they boarded.  Local students never boarded. -RajlGT
user RajlGT one of my good friend lives very close to Jacksonville but lives in a dorm anyway so it is false that local students never board i_eat_fried_chicken  —Preceding undated comment added 16:10, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Dorms?

message: I removed the extremely biased and gushing remarks about the "rock and roll appreciation club."  If anyone wants to add a NPOV statement about it, go ahead. Hpanic7342 19:52, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rock and Roll 

message: Somebody changed the numbers of Bolles faculty with certain degrees, but that was information that I got straight from the school's website.  If you want to provide evidence for why those numbers should be changed, go ahead, but don't just change them randomly.  Also, the bit about community service was changed unnecessarily to a negative slant, and I reverted it back to my wording.  Anyone who's ever been anywhere near Bolles knows that the school emphasizes community service among its students, and to say that it "emphasizes sports more than community service" is unverifiable and reeks of sour grapes. - Hpanic7342 04:49, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  A couple of changes 

message: Something about this section makes it seem...written by someone who goes to the school and doesn't really have much useful to say.
Maybe it's the use of words like extensive and range.
In any case, there are only two sentences here, and expansion would be nice. The rest of the section is garbage. Anyone can see that it doesn't do much to explain the art program, and I go to Bolles, and I'm sure the school does not advertise these beliefs.
I guess because I attend Bolles I should try to write something...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.185.249.234 (talk) 02:36, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Art Section 

message: I've gutted a lot of this article to remove the weasel wordage and school boosterism. I removed irrelevant sections such as publishing the school's code. I've also added a slew of fact tags for things that look like they may be easily citeable, but the article needs a lot of work. There is currently very little real information about the institution. Additionally, someone above suggested that parts of the article are copied directly from the school's own publications; if this is true it would be a copyright violation and needs to be removed.--Cúchullain t/c 16:16, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: October 2010

message: Jacksonville Times-Union: search "Bartram School for Girls".
Somehow this school should be in the article. Evidently the private Bartram School for Girls became the Bartram campus for girls. Was that when Bolles reportedly went co-ed, 1971? Evidently Bartram was also established in the 1930s —or its campus rebuilt then. According to his jacksonville.com obituary, Architect Clyde Eugene Harris won the contract to build it, which enabled him to marry in 1939. --P64 (talk) 17:32, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bartram School for Girls 

message: "It dropped its military focus in 1962." This is absolutely false; I live little more than a mile from the main Bolles campus, and the school was still boys-only and military when I graduated from a near-by public high school in 1968. I can remember the khaki uniforms and navy blue ties the students wore.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.177.38.253 (talk) 02:09, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Military 

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message: Jeb Bush, Jr is notable due to his Grandfather, George HW Bush (41) and Uncle George W Bush (43) both were presidents of the US and his father, Jeb Bush Governor of Florida!  Lkbroach (talk) 21:41, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
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message: , if the school's name is "The Bolles School", why is the page at "Bolles School"? – Muboshgu (talk) 19:39, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know, I didn't create the article, although you can see on their website that they refer to themselves as "The Bolles School" and they are also a Google place with that name. https://www.bolles.org/about-us FozzieHey (talk) 19:40, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: They do, and sources do seem to include the "the". So, I won't argue further. It was moved to take the "the" out of the article title in 2006 without a discussion. Maybe a move request should be opened to revert it. – Muboshgu (talk) 19:46, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yeah, thanks for checking. Another move proposal is probably the right thing to do. Although it might technically classify as "uncontroversial" due to the wealth of sources with "The Bolles School" as the name. FozzieHey (talk) 19:49, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name 

message: Reaction to Complaints  Irish Melkite (talk) 00:34, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Diversity Issues 

message: It's ironic that I clicked on the link for this page from the sucessful tv and film actor Chase Bailey's page yet he's not on the list of notable alumni. I'd add him but I don't know how to do that. 73.134.20.175 (talk) 04:15, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chase Bailey