Mayor: New high school won't be named after President Obama

Chicago Tribune ^ | Sept. 18, 2014 | John Byrne

[Michael.SF.]

Chicago's newest selective enrollment high school will not be named after President Barack Obama, as Mayor Rahm Emanuel had announced with much fanfare when unveiling the high profile school project..

In a statement this morning, Emanuel said he would look for other possible names.

[Michael.SF.]

Some other names they may be considering, with potential nicknames:

Saul Alinsky High School -- The Red Devils

William Ayers - The Bombers

Michelle Obama - The Fighting Hippos Mummia Abdul Jamaal - The Viper's

[V_TWIN]

obama “high”....I dunno, has a nice ring to it if one is knowledgeable on his past.

[V_TWIN]

chooms

[Dr. Thorne]

Were they going to name it the Frank Marshall Davis, Jr. high school?

[skinkinthegrass]

Josef Stalin High School.
"We shoot, our sports opponents.
so we win by default."

[RoosterRedux]

Were they going to name it the Frank Marshall Davis, Jr. high school?

Team name: The Fighting Yellow Stains.

[tflabo]

John F’n Kerry-— fightin’ Flip Floppers
Ruth Bader Ginsburg-— Glorious Gargoyles
Jesse Jackson— Shakers Downs
Elizabeth Warren-—Native Squawkers

[chajin]

Saul Alinsky High School -- The Red Devils

[dragonblustar]

Obama High, The Battling Bathers....

Actual mascot of Mt. Clemens High..

Logos is named, "Butch Bather"

[Ouchthatonehurt]

Hope n’ Change High - The Rainbow Unicorns

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Given the state of Chicago education, the school is probably going to be an expensive, educational disaster so why not name it after Obama?

[hal ogen]

I agree with the loser mayor. I guess I wouldn’t want a high school named “Traitor” or “Degenerate Loser” in my community.

[Michael.SF.]

WOW!!

If they go with "William Ayers Bombers", they could use these travel bags:

[GOPJ]

When Emanuel announced the new school, some wondered why Obama College Prep was not being built on the South Side in the president's Kenwood neighborhood/ or in the community where first lady Michelle Obama grew up, rather than in a well-to-do part of the predominantly white North Side.

LOL - Yeah, rather than name a High School in Kenwood or Hyde Park - (black neighborhoods in Chicago) - after a black President... let's name a school in a white Republican neighborhood after Obama. Yeah, that will stick it to 'whitie'... eff those white conservatives and they're kids... We'll show them.

If Democrats could name predominately Jewish High Schools 'Mohammad High' they would do it because they're little balls of pure hate - thinly attempting to disguise themselves as 'tolerant'...

[tumblindice]

The Obama High `Fighting Fartknockers' Cheerleaders

[Calvin Locke]

Not only that, but it’s supposed to be in the same neighborhood as was the infamous Cabrini-Green public housing project (now demolished).

[SparkyBass]

The Obama High Stoners

(school motto):

Wait, Whut?

[RetSignman]

Oddfather High has a nice ring to it.

[JennysCool]

I have a feeling Chicago is coming to the slow realization that its “favorite son” doesn’t really give a crap about the place. And never did, except as the very best launching pad to get a corrupt political career off the ground.