Formal Dedication of William Jefferson Clinton Elementary School (No Kiddin!)

Long Beach Press Telegram ^ | March 27, 2003 | Ian Hanigan

[EllaMinnow]

School naming event today Ceremony: Compton school to be dedicated to ex-President Clinton. By Ian Hanigan, Staff writer COMPTON City officials, school administrators and local residents are expected to gather today for a formal dedication of William Jefferson Clinton Elementary School the Compton district's first new school in more than 35 years.

After six months of construction, the $16 million two-story facility at 6500 E. Compton Blvd. opened in January, pulling about Clinton 800 students from nearby Kelly, Foster and Roosevelt elementary schools.

Parents who wanted their children to attend Clinton Elementary submitted applications last year for a lottery-style drawing, said Christine Sanchez, spokeswoman for the Compton Unified School District.

The new campus, which can accommodate up to 1,000 students on its 9 acres, includes a $250,000 computer lab and has computers, televisions and telephones in every classroom, Sanchez said.

Clinton Elementary is the 24th elementary school campus in the Compton system, which includes seven middle schools and three high schools. The district serves about 37,000 students in Compton, Carson, Enterprise, South Los Angeles and Willowbrook.

Prior to the June groundbreaking, Compton school board President Isadore Hall said the district selected the nation's 42nd president as the school's namesake because of his support for education, especially in minority communities.

While the former president is not expected to attend today's ceremony, his likeness will be present amid the proclamations and ribbon-cutting poses. Large color posters are expected to be on display, and Clinton himself will offer a recorded message via video screen. The dedication also is set to include the unveiling of a plaque and a bust of Clinton.

Those who have signed on to personally attend the ceremony include Compton Mayor Eric Perrodin, CUSD Superintendent Jesse Gonzalez and Virginia Ward-Roberts, principal of Clinton Elementary.

[mikeb704]

The new campus, which can accommodate up to 1,000 students on its 9 acres, includes a $250,000 computer lab and has computers, televisions and telephones in every classroom, Sanchez said.

How appropriate. Telephones in every classroom in a school named after the Big Creep who gave phone sex a bad name.

Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp

[harpo11]

Oh great a school paid for by taxpayers being dedicated to an impeached, perjuring married philandering reprobate, who enjoyed sexual favors in the Oval Office chasing interns with a cigar, while talking on the phone with a congressman concerning sending USA Troops into Bosnia.

[EllaMinnow]

Ping!

[Our man in washington]

Those poor teachers. I can picture it now...

"Johnny, did you do your homework?"

"It depends on what you mean by do."

"I mean, have you completed it?"

"Let me just say this: this class--boys, girls, white, black--put in a lot of work on this homework assignment and I can say that I'm proud to be a part of that. We did well, and yet there is stil more to be done. And that's why I'm proposing--"

"I'm not asking about the rest of the class. DID YOU DO YOUR HOMEWORK?"

"I have no recollection."

"If you don't have it with you, then you didn't do it!"

"The documents may have been misplaced. This is a mere clerical error that some of my classmates are trying to use as a way to tar the integrity of my career as a student."

"So do you have any intention of doing your homework?"

"You know, it seems that every day someone is coming with another accusation that I didn't do my homework. It's time to move on so we can begin building a bridge to fifth grade."

"That's because you haven't turned in a homework assignment all year."

"And yet, despite all these unfounded accusations, not a single document exists proving that I didn't do my homework."

"The proof is that you haven't turned any in."

"Obviously, we could have handled things better. Some clerical errors may have occurred on transaction, but that is not a prosecutable offense."

"Are you saying that you did all these assignments and failed to turn them in?"

"Let me just say this: doing homework has consistently been a high priority for us and our goal has always been to do the most homework of any student in history."

"Johnny, I'm going to have to call your mother about this."

"Involving my family members!!! This prosecution has turned into a fishing expedition that will stop at nothing to bring down my career as a student."

[EllaMinnow]

I was disgusted when a local school was named after Lawton Chiles, a vicious old creep who hid behind a "jus' plain folks" facade.
Naming a school for Bubba is much much worse.

[ysoitanly]

This is side-splitting hilarious!!! A LOTTERY to get in to a *Compton* school named after Clinton? I wouldn't dig through a box of Cracker Jacks to find that ticket! THIS IS ABSOLUTELY HYSTERICAL!! Do they have a 'School of Ethics' wing? Oh, I could go on.....

[doug from upland]

The Arturo Fuentes

[solo gringo]

I would not name the local S#it house after clinton.Mabe your school system will name the next one after Monica.

[cyncooper]

I don't know, but it kind of puts me in mind of all the huge posters of Saddam that wallpaper Iraq.

That is EXACTLY the thought I had.

Think there will come a day when we see a student beating a poster of clinton using a shoe?

LOL!

[Petronski]

The main hallway is surprisingly short and bends off to one side rather abruptly.

[EllaMinnow]

"I curse his mustache!!"

No, that's not right...

"I curse his bulbous red nose!"

That's better...

[EllaMinnow]

LOL!!

[XEHRpa]

Your forgot Honors English with 'Leaves of Grass' Walt Whitman

I wanted to put it in... honest! But I couldn't quite remember the name... I knew it was something with leaves. Great minds think alike.

[cyncooper]

Spot on.

(Pun intended)

[Slyfox]

The title of the school ought to be:

Impeached Ex-Resident William Jefferson Clinton Elementary School

He earned it. Let him forever wear it.

[conservativeammom]

ROTFLOL....This is just to funny.....

[Anamensis]

Shoulda called Monica, I bet she would have come.

Umm.... do you mean ... never mind. ;^)

I bet she would've too.

[StockAyatollah]

Guest Lecturer: Dick Morris will deliver a talk on podiatry.

[jraven]

One rumor has it, Clinton Elementary will be a magnet school; Monical Lewinsky will be a feeder school.

[Captain America]

Toilet stall maybe. Not a whole school.