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The audacity of hype and zero substance. Maybe schools should focus more on rigorous academia to help kids compete in a global world and less on racial symbolism?
Barack H. Obama Elementary to close (http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_theticket/20110318/ts_yblog_theticket/barack-h-obama-elementary-to-close - broken link)
The Bangs Avenue School elected in 2010 to change its name to Barack H. Obama Elementary. It will be shuttered this summer, largely due to low enrollment.
But the city resident behind the movement, Myra Campbell, believed it would "send a subliminal message" to the students. "Every time they walk through the school doors, there's going to be a certain amount of pride in where they go to school," Campbell told the Star-Ledger in 2009. "We now move forward in trying what we can to improve the academic skills of the students and also the social skills."
The audacity of hype and zero substance. Maybe schools should focus more on rigorous academia to help kids compete in a global world and less on racial symbolism?
How is naming a school after a U.S. President "racial symbolism"?
I would also be curious to know how the other schools named after President Obama are faring enrollment-wise.
All I know is, when I was in high school, the name of the school didn't matter to me. In fact, I don't recall anyone ever giving significance to the name of the school. We just wanted to get out at the end of the day I swear, school administrators seem to have their head rammed up their backside
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I swear, school administrators seem to have their head rammed up their backside
