Talk:New English School (Kuwait)

Headmistress

Ms. Doran isn't the headmistress of the entire school now is she? From what I know, she's only head of the secondary department. --Ahmed 22:44, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Canteen vs Tuckshop

If no one minds I'm going to change the word Canteen to Tuckshop since they are essentially two different things and the article is misleading the reader by saying there is a canteen on the school premises when there really is only a tuckshop, two entirely different things. A small change and I'd prefer the editors to post on the disscusion page before editing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.54.233.1 (talk • contribs) 01:02, 4 April 2007

Do you have a reference to make this distinction?— ERcheck (talk) 01:32, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

What do you mean by a reference?

By the way, a canteen is a place where there are tables and you can dine right? But the New English School only has a shop where you can buy food and then go eat it somewhere else in the playground which is a tuckshop not a canteen. So I would like to know who reverted my edit for no apparant reason, and why have I been getting warning of vandalising this page when all I did was change canteen into tuckshop? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 213.132.250.2 (talk • contribs) 12:55, April 5, 2007 (UTC).

What ERcheck means by a reference is some external document (say, a dictionary) that would explain the distinction that you're trying to draw between a canteen and a tuckshop.

I suspect that the issue here is really a difference between US English and UK-derived English. In US-English, there's no word "tuckshop". I don't know its full UK-English meaning, so can't really comment on whether it's appropriate. (But see the M-W definition, "confectioner's shop".) However, I expect that the difference would be perfectly clear to a UK reader, just as the difference between a restaurant and a cafeteria would be clear to a US reader. Ideally we'd find a word that means the right thing in both variants of the language. Does it serve "real food" (sandwiches, soup, et cetera) or does it only serve snacks (candy, potato chips, et cetera)? If it's only snacks, there are a number of US-English variants (snack stand, snack bar) that might be appropriate. For real food, something like "lunch counter" might be appropriate. I don't know UK-English well enough to know whether they mean the same thing there.

Let's back off and try to find a good answer that's understandable in both variants.

Jordan Brown 04:35, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

It's more reasonable to use the word "Canteen" since it can be mean a service where food is served but doesn't have to necessarily have to have table service. "Snack stand" and "Snack bar" are more appropriate but this "Canteen" at the New English School is more appropriate with "Snack bar". It's two counters on a wall on the playground. They are a few feet away from each other with a line for girls and a line for boys. --Ahmed 03:58, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

The "criticisms" edit struggle

A list of complaints against the school under the heading Criticisms have been repeatedly inserted and removed. These have never been properly sourced. All students everywhere have some complaint gainst their school, it goes with the territory, but that doesn't automatically make the complaints encyclopedic material. Take the alleged racism for instance - if, for instance, there have been reports in the press about it, it would be a valid inclusion, but without sources it just looks like a random accusation. --Bonadea 07:04, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

I agree that the criticisms aren't valid because they are unsourced. The article probably needs to be protected. --Ahmed 14:22, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Salomon Kalou

Did he attend NES? He's listed under notable alumni. There should be a citation if he did. (Same for Queen Rania too in fact).Eternity52 01:08, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

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