Talk:Maine Central Institute

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BetacommandBot (talk) 00:58, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed there are no current photos of the campus on the page. Maybe someone should put some up, just so people can understand what a dump that place has become. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.125.195.252 (talk) 19:49, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-public[edit]

Why does MCI have such difficulty acknowledging its true nature? While it is technically true that it is a "private boarding and day school," it also serves as the public school for the local high schoolers (as evidenced by its unremarkable SAT scores) and as such receives federal funding. It deals with the same issues as every other public school in this impoverished, rural area of central Maine - even more so, given that the high population of black and Asian students has resulted in multiple instances of harassment and racism from this otherwise all-white community.

Which brings me to another point. Possibly one of the reasons MCI doesn't like to talk about its semi-public status is because that would attract fewer international students (the ESL program is far from "prestigious" by the way). During my tenure as a teacher at the school, multiple boarders told me that their educational consultants had misrepresented the school to their parents, suggesting that is was an academically strong private school. These students told me that they would not have enrolled had they known the truth about the school at the time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.246.147.51 (talk) 21:55, 17 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I changed the article to correct the statement that cited MCI as a private school. Technically it's an independent school, because it receives both private and public funding. MCI's website states that the school is independent, it does not claim to be private. Fedlfe7 (talk) 09:23, 8 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]