On 9/24/06, Sherool jamydlan@online.no wrote:
How do we define "school" anyway? Does every money grabbing diploma mill and fly-by-night private teaching institution that ever existed fall into this blanket inclution criterea as well as long as they refered to themselves as "school" in some way, or just those that are government aproved? There are quite a few dodgy business initiatives around the globe that label themselves as "school" or "academy" and such. I don't see why *some* form of notability cutoff for private schools would be such a bad thing.
Personally I think dodgy places which are not accredited, and have articles pointing this out, are more useful to have in Wikipedia than, say, every public school in California, with unverifiable reports of how it is "one of the best in the county" and "is well-known for its academic opportunities" and so forth. I find entries like [[Patriot Bible University]] more useful in pointing out the lack of authority an institution has than those which use utterly unconvincing peacock terms to discuss legitimate ones.
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