On 9/26/06, Anthony DiPierro <dipierro(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 9/26/06, Mark Wagner <carnildo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 9/25/06, David Gerard
<dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On 25/09/06, George Herbert <george.herbert(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > There will have to be a line short of "all things that have any
record
> > claiming they may be a school of some
sort".
> > The first place that line seems logically to go, on first
inspection,
is
"Paid teachers".
Third-party verifiability would be the first line.
But where's the second line? The Michigan homeschools are verifiable:
since they're treated as private schools, they need to be registered
with the Michigan Department of Education.
What's verifiable, that they exist? The fact that something exists is
not an article.
Because we have the notion that all schools are inherently notable,
apparently the fact that something exists _is_ an article. Or, if you take
the list approach, _part_ of an article.
Notability should be the first line, with criteria being such that only
actual schools are counted (at a maximum). Such criteria could include:
- A school tied directly to the government (i.e., public schools)
- A school run by a board of directors/trustees or similar form of
government. This does not include any strictly regulatory agencies such as a
state Department of Education.
- Accreditation by some board of accreditation.
Carl