Talk:McGehee School

Campus map

http://web.archive.org/web/19990224014124im_/http://www.mcgehee.k12.la.us/images/MapCampu.GIF - http://www.webcitation.org/6e4mSkJXg

This is a map of the school campus WhisperToMe (talk) 19:39, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

Stop reposting FALSE information!!

Please, allow us to post facts and not this continued rubbish. I will elaborate more later, but this page is continually reposted with false, damaging and flat out incorrect information! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.215.186.146 (talk) 16:41, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

• If it's sourced to a reliably-published book, it's not false. Now, history is history. What was true then may not be true today, but we have to fully document the past. WhisperToMe (talk) 06:33, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
• Quote in question uses a present perfect tense and the introductory phrase "For decades" both of which indicate ongoing discrimination. The page is alleging current and ongoing discrimination. This is wildly inflammatory and seems to hold no factual basis. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8807:6803:B500:C9F1:A6D8:3CD8:D440 (talk) 17:15, 20 November 2020 (UTC)
• IP editor, you asked for a third opinion. However, the issue doesn't seem to have been thoroughly discussed so the request isn't exactly following all of the instructions. That being said, the information is relevant here because it is in a reliable source. You say it alleges this in the present tense, but that is only part of the quote. The full passage is In 2005 Eli Evans wrote that "For decades McGehee has been the institution by which the elite in New Orleans shield their young women from the blacks, the Jews, the poor, and the different, protecting them from ideas and associations that might lure them from their manifest destiny.", which is pass tense. It also credits this observation to a person to emphasize this may not be a universally accepted fact. Sam-2727 (talk) 02:36, 22 November 2020 (UTC)

The one major aspect I found is that the book was first published in 1973 (there was a newly printed edition in 2005). So I did err in not checking more into when the book was first written. Having said that, an exact quote needs to be represented exactly or one can replace a few key words in brackets like "McGehee [had]" to emphasize this was past-tense, but that Evans did not write the word "had" directly.

The point of the quote itself, and in covering Evans' statements, is to express how the school was in the past (as in prior to 1973) and not today in 2024. I have no doubt McGehee has changed as an institution. Wikipedia articles are not all about promotion, and need to cover the good, the bad, and the ugly (hence Evans's quotes). However my point is to show that the school may have had a complicated past, but this does not reflect on the school in 2024.

WhisperToMe (talk) 23:32, 14 January 2024 (UTC)