Posted on 02/08/2018 5:00:20 AM PST by simpson96
ALEXANDRIA, VA—The West End School Naming Committee has narrowed name choices for the soon-to-open school at 1701 North Beauregard down to four. The committee will recommend Katherine Johnson Elementary School, Barack and Michelle Obama Elementary School, Sonia Sotomayor Elementary School and Day-Ochoa Elementary School to the school board Thursday, Feb. 8.
The choices come from 355 suggestions the committee received in the fall. The committee choose names that would reflect the school's diversity, inspire elementary school students, have ties to Virginia and represent the school's STEM focus. The names also have to avoid confusion with other Virginia public schools and places.
Day-Ochoa is named after Ferdinand Day, the late Alexandria resident that became the first African-American school board chair in the state, and NASA astronaut Ellen Ochoa, the first Hispanic woman to go to space. Katherine Johnson is a Virginia resident and NASA mathematician featured in "Hidden Figures" for her calculations that sent astronauts into orbit and to the moon. The nationwide choices are Barack and Michelle Obama, as well as Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
The recommendations will go to the school board Thursday, Feb. 8 at 7 p.m. in the School Board Meeting Room at 1340 Braddock Place. Residents are encouraged to provide feedback at a public hearing Thursday, Feb. 15 at 7 p.m. in the School Board Meeting Room. The school board may recommend additional names and make a final decision on Feb. 22.
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The honkey in the bottom row ain’t gettin it.
Is this like coins and currency where the honoree must be dead first? I’m all for it.
Asshat Elementary? Not sure that's such a good name.
Asshole Elementary is not a good name.
no edifice, ship or road should be named after someone until they have been dead 25 years.
What? No transgender dwarves? How are we supposed to celebrate our diversity if transgender dwarves aren’t represented?
Oh, wait. I’ve got it. They couldn’t find any transgender dwarves that aren’t white.
Lenin statues are so, like, 20th century.
How about naming schools after people like Charles Dickens, or Shakespeare, or Hemmingway, or Einstein?
Nah, we have to select names on the basis of race, and who are “correct” according to the Party Line...
They have to keep the fake narrative going, starting with kindergarteners.
How about Jeb Stewart Elementary?
What’s wrong with Alexandria Elementary School?
How about John S. Mosby Elementary?
Psst—you mean “J.E.B. Stuart”
They are going to be embarrassed when Obama’s crimes against America are revealed.
“Obozo Elementary” yes that has a good ring....
Not Hugo Chavez?
These people can’t be reached.
Obama School for Hustlers and Cheats?
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