Here we go - Tulsa public schools to start review of school names..

[Glocktogo]

Then just tattoo students serial numbers on their forearms and refer to them by number not name.

Exactly! What are these parents thinking? That their kids are something they get to personalize like their Facebook pages? They're people who rightfully belong to the proletariat!

 

[Dale00]

What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors. Robert E. Lee

Beware...Beware...Beware... the search engines are stacked against Lee. The progs has made sure that only anti-Lee essays come to the top when you search for his name.....It will take old fashioned effort to discern the real Robert E. Lee....Google is not your friend.

 

[Chuckie]

so Lee's only connection is that he commanded the Army that a bunch of people in Oklahoma supported?

So with your way of thinking, nothing in Oklahoma should be named after Martin L. King, either.

 

[Ace_on_the_Turn]

Surefire way to ensure the school is in the ghetto. I've yet to go to a city where MLK Boulevard was in the nice area.

WARNING: Some naughty words.

 

[donner]

So with your way of thinking, nothing in Oklahoma should be named after Martin L. King, either.

i'd be fine with that. And if people want to have that discussion, they should be able to. I think it's foolish for schools, cities, states, etc to be told certain things are off limits for discussion or renaming.

 

[caojyn]

I vote to rename it Benedict Arnold Elementary

 

[donner]

I vote to rename it Benedict Arnold Elementary

it'd keep with a theme

 

[Dale00]

Let them serve eggs benedict in the free breakfast program....but only a special low calorie. low taste recipe that the kids will all scrape into the trash and then buy some twinkies from the junk food entrepreneur student.

 

[OKNewshawk]

Funny, I thought the school was named for that great American artist and writer, Stan Lee...

 

[mugsy]

When I went to public school in NY City, many years ago, I attended P.S. 41 and P.S. 45 then I.S. 61 (Public Schools, elementary grades, and Intermediate School) then Sacred Heart School (Catholic Schools are named as are most other private or parochial schools). However, High Schools are named in NY. For example, I attended Stuyvesant H.S. - old peg leg Pete (Peter Stuyvesant) was our mascot. I think at some point the city started naming the Intermediate Schools as well but as a secondary title to the number designation. It seemed to work just fine for us.