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Posted on 05/02/2009 3:12:12 PM PDT by reaganaut1
A St. Paul elementary school has voted to officially change its name to "Barack and Michelle Obama Service Learning Elementary," pending approval of the school board.
Webster Magnet Elementary is in its first year of a service learning program, and the school wanted a new name to reflect the shift in focus. The site council, made up of parents and community members, put the Obama name and "Webster Service Learning Elementary" on the ballot.
Students, staff and St. Paul residents were invited to cast ballots Thursday. The Obama name came away with roughly 60 percent of the 854 votes cast.
"I heard cheers coming from the lunch room when I made the announcement to the school," said Principal Lori Simon.
The name is meant to honor the Obamas' commitment to service learning, she said.
The Webster school name has been around since the 1880s, even though the current Webster building was built in 1925. The school is named after statesman Daniel Webster.
According to district policy, new school names, programs, mascots and logos "shall reflect the diversity of the district," and need to be approved by the school board, "in consultation with the school community."
The school board will vote on May 19.
Board member Tom Conlon, the board's sole Republican, said he plans to vote against the name change. He thinks naming schools after politicians -- Republican or Democratic -- should come at the end of a politician's career, or even life, and pointed to "Paul and Sheila Wellstone Elementary" in downtown St. Paul as an example.
"Look at what happened in Anchorage," Conlon said. "They named the airport after [former Republican Sen.] Ted Stevens, and then he got indicted. When this is happening just three months into office, it just seems premature."
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Spitting on the grave of Daniel Webster, a great American, in favor of renaming the school after a committed Marxist. More proof that schools need to be defunded and completely turned over to the private sector.
I think they should rename it Weimar in honor of what will be Obammy’s legacy.
BTW, I recommend to FReepers the magnificent book The Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay and Calhoun by Merrill D. Peterson. It shows how 3 men ran the counry from Congress while presidents came and went with no particular impact -- except for Jackson.
There .. how's that? ;-)
Was that school named for Daniel or Noah Webster ???
If you think our children aren’t being brainwashed by the Marxist “school teachers” at our public schools, you might want to think again. They are all being trained to be obedient little Marxists.
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First they have to change the city’s name to “Paul”.
something a public high school senior wrote! ;)
Oh, nuts. Wrong reply. Sorry. (How did I get the thread mixed up?)
Change it to, “Dear Leader Service Learning Elementary”.
And I recommend they change the city name to Sh*tsville.
Fools, all.
But then again, this is Al Franken's Minnesota.
He hasn’t even done anything significantly good or well yet. Even more scary is that this “service” could lead to the silencing of non-secular folks, like the forced service of young adults to work for the gov. for a certain amount of time. Probably efforts to forbid anyone in service to legislate against or speak against the government or to turn anyone in who does. Isn’t this how it started under Hitler? Or other communist countries? Hope I’m wrong.
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