Talk:Walter M. Williams High School

Diversity

Any reason these countries are listed? Is it a comprehensive list? If not, seems arbitrary. How many nationalities are represented? Maybe that would be a better bit of info Lucas20 (talk) 01:33, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

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It is inaccurate to say Williams High School "transitioned to a Grades 10-12 format" in the early 1970's. The school had three grades at least from the time that Turrentine Junior High School opened as a Grade 7-9 school in 1962 until the end of the experiment of using the Jordan Sellars campus as a ninth grade school in the late 1970s. It is also inaccurate to state that Jordan Sellars "closed its doors in 1970, at which time all of its students were integrated into the student body at Williams." In 1970 Jordan Sellars remained open as a voc-tech campus for the city's high schools, and later became the Sellars Gunn Junior High School, housing all of the city's ninth graders. Also, while Jordan Sellars' rising seniors were all transferred to Williams High School in 1970, and, with all the city's white seniors comprised the school's largest graduating class of 600, the rising juniors and sophomores were divided along the same district lines as Turrentine and Broadview Junior High Schools, between Williams and the newly opened Cummings High School, which contained only the 10th and 11th grades in its first year. It was in this year of the completion of the racial integration of Burlington's high schools that Sports Illustrated assigned a free-lance writer, Pat Jordan, to cover the school's football team, a predominantly white team coached by Jerome Evans, who had been moved over from Jordan Sellars and became the subject of Jordan's book, "Black Coach".

Wrdalton (talk) 06:18, 11 April 2009 (UTC)