Next they'll recommend using the names of "recent" famous Germans like Adolph Hitler ~ making the name REAL EASY TO REMEMBER.
"“Someone back in the United States, if they know that they’re coming to Wiesbaden, they may want to try and look up Wiesbaden High School not knowing that it’s called H.H. Arnold,” he said. That school is named for the aviation pioneer and founding father of the U.S. Air Force.
“This is just to make it easier to identify exactly where that school is at.” "
You gotta wonder if this is indeed bureacratism run amok (a fixed aspect of DOD and DODDS) or if there is some perverse agenda behind it.
I am inclined to believe that a dodds person in power simply got tired of having to ask where xxx HS was, and used their position to push this through. When in doubt, petty motives are always a good guess.
Ironically, Farragut was of partially Spanish heritage, so in fact the name of the school IS reflective of its location.
Geez, you'd think the Spanish would want to claim Farragut.
Note the multicultural drivel here:
“I think that is acceptable. More people of different heritages might feel more welcome now, not like they have to feel like they’re just American,” said the seventh-grader, who has a mixed heritage of Japanese, Puerto Rican, black and white."
My kids have been in DoDDs schools around the world and this attitude not only is imbecelic it fails reflect pride and basic education of the contributions of America ...like democracy and freedoms...such that one would not be ashamed to refer to it. No, we would rather be humble and wimpering and shy and shameful about identifying ourselves as an American school.
All of the Armed Forces community services and installation web sites have the names of the schools and the links to their web sites readily assessible. This is a nonsense excuse.
I would tell DoDDS if they want to drop A"merican School" from their name then they can drop my tax dollars from subsidizing it...
Write your Congressman; this DoDDS administrator is reeking of PC ideology and I won't put up with it.
This must be a Diplomats kid, not an Armed Forces dependent.
The nation continues unabated its headlong rush to commit PC suicide.
Does CinC know about this? Secdef? CJCS?
Anyone have their e-mail addies?
This doesn't pass the smell test. 'Multiculturalism' and 'diversity is perversity' are rampant here. It stinks.
I am a proud alumnus of the Bad Kreuznach American School and the Darmstadt American School.
Does this mean the word 'American' will be removed from any future list of requests for arms, armies, charity etc from this part of the world? This could save us a whole lot of $$.
Dodds reasoning makes perfect sense.
The Japanese/America girl totally missed the point.
Dodds isn't making a statement about heritage. It's just talking about searching for schools in a directory.
DODDS has to hire teachers from somewhere....so the liberal jerks from the states have finally gotten through to our schools for military children. If they get their way with this renaming garbage, the rest of the agenda-driven teaching will not be far behind.
Who cares. This story tells me the school will have an Arabic name 10 years from now anyway.
They could be changing the names to keep them from being easily identified by terrorists. It might be an effort to protect the students. But, with bureaucrats you just never know. Could be a Clinton appointee making a fool of himself, as usual.
This is my first post at FR.
At first blush, this action is insulting. After further thought, when viewed as an anti-terror measure, it makes sense. With all the anti-American sentiment and open calls for jihad against American interests - this may prove to be a wise move.
DOD has announced Americans are no longer to dress in shorts, baseball caps and T-shirts with tacky sayings on them while walking around in Europe - they also may no longer eat exclusively at McDonald's and BurgerKing nor talk loudly in public.
This will be interpreted in Jihadist circles as a victory, and they'll be right.
I find this so funny that we all have our panties in a bunch over this. I would suspect that most FREEPERS must have high blood pressure about worrying about these small details. There is no way that the DODDs system is anti-American. That is totally insane for anyone to say. I can walk right this minute to the school and discuss this with any parent, teacher, or administrator and they would laugh us out of the school. Changing the name for administrative purposes are not treasonist acts.
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