Talk:International Academy

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[edit] Assess

Well ... you can see the sections that have no refeences in. Also notable for its lack of pictures. Some good stuff, but do you really need to wikilink French? Not really interested in what this school does that every school does but what it doesnt or does in a different way. References should be third party - I would expect 20 or 30 especially wehen you link your Alumni. This is an important school. May be top. Deserves an article like the one you are developing. Good luck Victuallers 10:33, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] plaigiarized

The entire first paragraph is verbatim from IA website. Needs to be rewritten from scratch. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Subdn (talk • contribs) 12:44, 14 August 2006

[edit] False Information

I'm an IA student and, while I think it's good that IA students are editing it as we have a better clue than anyone else, I've noticed stuff in the past that were just rumors flying around the IA. For example, the whole thing about Baker Middle School in Troy becoming a new location for IA...that was a rumor that came out of the fact that the Troy School District is planning on using Baker to turn into a new IB school. However, it is was never in consideration to be used as a new building for the current IA. The IA is funded by the Bloomfield Hills District, so it would never relocate to a building in Troy.

The classes offered portion I added on my "BeggarsBanquet" account and while that has no citations I know for a fact that all of that is true. I've read in the school coursebook and/or heard it from teachers and principals of the school myself. I simply just would not know what to cite.

The article seems pretty good right now, but we should be on the lookout for stuff that is untrue or is outdated...for example, the "IA Fire" disbanded in the fall of 2005. That was over a year ago. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.192.19.130 (talk • contribs) 07:03, 23 November 2006

[edit] Re-rating

Now that sources have been added and the IA article is no longer tagged as missing sources, is there a way that IA can be re-assessed? I no longer think it is Start-class. I also think it should be Top-importance, as it is historic for being the first state-funded all-IB Diploma school in North America.

As for the lack of an alumni section, the school is only 11 years old, with its first class graduating in 2000. The lack of a list of notable alumni is due to the fact that the school is too young to have any notable alumni yet. In 10 years or so, there should be a substantial list, but as for now a lack of an alumni section should not be mark against an article about a 11-year-old school. Beggarsbanquet 04:54, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Please stop re-adding old, inaccurate info

Please stop re-adding this:
About 88% of enrolled students earn IB degrees.
The article in question was written several years ago, and the statistic is no longer accurate. The statistic added for the class of 2006 gives the reader a much better idea of how many IA students receive the IB diploma. It is also the statistic used by the school on all of its information booklets and its website. Beggarsbanquet (talk) 01:36, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

It's an external source, and it's used for other data in the article. The references do work, if you don't delete them. Gimmetrow 01:39, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
That's because, for that information, it is still accurate. However, the number of IA students who attain IB degrees now has changed significantly. The school no longer uses the 88% statistic, and as a student of the school due to graduate this year I can tell you that that statistic is misleading, as we have only about 5 students per year who do not attain IB degrees (since graduating classes are around 150 students, that is much smaller than the 12% that statistic implies). About the sources, they do work - for about 5 seconds. Then, when I refresh the page, it says "Citation error: No info given." It is better to re-state the source twice than have a citation error. Beggarsbanquet (talk) 02:00, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
Here is the message I got from that reference: Cite error 8; No text given. Beggarsbanquet (talk) 02:01, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
That's because you just deleted it! Gimmetrow 02:03, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
It looked that way before I deleted it though. .... Oh no, wait, I get what you're saying now. Beggarsbanquet (talk) 02:07, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

The referenced paper is, I think, talking about a different statistic. It says that 88% of those *who enroll* go on to earn an IB degree. Not a percent of those who make it to senior year, but a percent of those who start as first-years. Gimmetrow 02:11, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] History page?

Wth is up with the history page? It only goes back to edits from December 2005. I know the page is older than this, as I distinctly remember some vandals messing with it back in spring of 2005. Did someone delete the history prior to December 2005? If so, that seems rather dishonest and unnecessary. Beggarsbanquet (talk) 21:16, 29 May 2008 (UTC)