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County Might Name Upper Marlboro School After Obama
Washington Post ^ | 6/25/09 | Nelson Hernandez

Posted on 06/25/2009 5:26:46 AM PDT by steve-b

President Obama's name would grace a new Prince George's County elementary school a few miles from the White House under a proposal scheduled for a vote tonight, barely five months after he took office.

If the Prince George's Board of Education approves the plan, Barack Obama Elementary School would be the first in the Washington region named after the president. The school is under construction outside the Capital Beltway in Upper Marlboro and is slated for completion by year's end.

The school would not be the first in the country named after Obama. The Hempstead Union Free School District in New York voted to rename Ludlum Elementary School for him in November shortly after his victory in the presidential election. Since then, several other school boards nationwide have taken steps to name new schools or rename old ones after the president. (The honors haven't been confined to the United States: Antigua has plans to name its largest mountain and a national park after him.)...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: bho44; namesake; obama; pgcounty; school
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That’s what those bastards want. They love communism, and hate the US (as it was, or more specifically, the Founders and their Constitution). If he “changes” it, that’ll be great for them.


21 posted on 06/26/2009 8:46:26 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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