Talk:The Willow School (Louisiana)

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'Grammar and Relevance' I removed something that was very grammatically incorrect and I thought was very poorly written. Please, if you use wikipedia, please learn grammar and make sure your information is relevant! 70.130.26.36 13:14, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Grammar & Relevance

I removed something that was very grammatically incorrect and I thought was very poorly written Please, if you use wikipedia, please learn grammar and make sure your information is relevant! 70.130.26.36 13:14, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Why was the better revision removed?

I rewrote this article. I made it not a stub anymore and I gave lots of new, accurate, up-to-date information. But somebody recently changed it back to its original form. I'm wondering why they did this. Maybe the Fortier Campus staff list was too much but we could have take that out without affecting the rest of the refurbished article. Also, it's on Lusher Charter School's website, but it's OK that I borrowed it because I wrote the version that is on that site, so it isn't plagiarism. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.180.87.42 (talk) 22:46, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia articles can't contain material directly copied from another website. Whether you wrote the material for the website or not, it can not be copied to Wikipedia. VerruckteDan (talk) 23:01, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

And if I rewrite the information to word it differently? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.180.87.42 (talk) 15:16, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

It'd have to be significantly different, not just a rewording. Additionally, some of the sections are unnecessary. The Mission Statement section probably can go. The faculty list should not be included, and the About Charter Schools section is unneeded. A wikilink to Charter schools should be provided. Speaking of wikilinks, the article is lacking them and needs more. Also, providing references for statements should be done whenever possible and from sources other than the Lusher website. VerruckteDan (talk) 22:04, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

By the way, I just read your user page, you're pretty cool. So do you know a lot about Lusher having gone to Tulane? I'm only 12 years old, I'm not like the principle of the school or anything. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.180.87.42 (talk) 16:03, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

I'm reasonably familiar with Lusher and its strong reputation, but don't know a lot of specifics about the school. A quick FYI, when you leave a message on a talk page, if you end it with ~~~~, it will leave your signature and posting time. VerruckteDan (talk) 16:59, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Willow Campus is NOT in the Garden District

This source said that Lusher Charter School Willow campus is in the Garden District:

• Dingerson, Leigh. "Unlovely: How the Market is Failing the Children of New Orleans." in: Dingerson, Leigh, Bob Peterson, Barbara Miner, and Stephanie Walters (editors). Keeping the Promise?: The Debate Over Charter Schools. Rethinking Schools, 2008. p. 21. ISBN 0942961382, 9780942961386.

  "One of the first school proposals came from pre-existing Lusher K-6 charter school in the city's affluent and well-connected Garden District."

But Willow Campus, which had been home to Lusher since 1917, is at 7315 Willow Street New Orleans, Louisiana 70118 which is not in the Garden District and is on the other side of Tulane University WhisperToMe (talk) 17:40, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

2000s profiles (pre-Katrina)

I found:

• http://web.archive.org/web/20040717082739/http://www.nops.k12.la.us:80/DeptWebs/Accountability/profiles2002/lusherextprofile.pdf
• http://web.archive.org/web/20031207101001/http://www.nops.k12.la.us:80/DeptWebs/Accountability/profiles2002/lusherelemprofile.pdf

WhisperToMe (talk) 16:30, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

This school is listed in the recent SPLC (Southern Poverty Law Center) list of confederate monuments and memorials awaiting name changes or removal due to their insensitivity to racial concerns, promotion of white supremacy and things promoting the confederacy. Here's a link to the very thorough full article:

https://www.splcenter.org/20220201/whose-heritage-public-symbols-confederacy-third-edition — Preceding unsigned comment added by Photojack53 (talk • contribs) 23:29, 1 February 2022 (UTC)