You can't graduate from HS if you can't say the name (Adams: elementary school, to move)

[citylove101]

Just saw the new names that the city is planning for the two dozen schools that are being shut down and reopened with new personnel this fall under the "turnaround" method. Now regardless of whether you think that model will work (and I am skeptical) one thing that won't work is the utterly ridiculous and long names they have given to some of these schools. Some demented person at the DOE probably figured that if the kid can actually say the whole name of the school he's a cinch to pass his Regents.

The simply named JHS 80, in the Bronx, becomes The Norwood Academy of Communal Excellence at the Isobel Rooney Campus

William Cullen Bryant HS in Queens becomes The Academy of Humanities and Applied Science at the William Cullen Bryant Campus

John Dewey HS will be known as The Shorefront High School of Arts and Sciences at John Dewey Campus

Banana Kelly HS morphs into Collegiate Preperatory Academy at Longwood

Though I do sort of like the new name for the massively dysfunctional HS of Graphic and Communication Arts down in Hells' Kitchen: Creative Digital Minds High School

Too bad there wern't any creative digital minds at the DOE when they came up with this scheme, or they would have realized that you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig.

City Renames Schools Marked for Closure - DNAinfo.com

[Bronxguyanese]

Sad. If I was to have any kids the first step is to move out of NYC for better schools.

[bellakin123]

Originally Posted by citylove101

Just saw the new names that the city is planning for the two dozen schools that are being shut down and reopened with new personnel this fall under the "turnaround" method. Now regardless of whether you think that model will work (and I am skeptical) one thing that won't work is the utterly ridiculous and long names they have given to some of these schools. Some demented person at the DOE probably figured that if the kid can actually say the whole name of the school he's a cinch to pass his Regents. Given the Regents standards now-a-days, you're probably right. I see the way some kids write today and someone I know bragged about getting a 68 on her Regents. Apparently a 68 qualifies for a Regents Diploma.

The simply named JHS 80, in the Bronx, becomes The Norwood Academy of Communal Excellence at the Isobel Rooney Campus

William Cullen Bryant HS in Queens becomes The Academy of Humanities and Applied Science at the William Cullen Bryant Campus

John Dewey HS will be known as The Shorefront High School of Arts and Sciences at John Dewey Campus

Banana Kelly HS morphs into Collegiate Preperatory Academy at Longwood

Though I do sort of like the new name for the massively dysfunctional HS of Graphic and Communication Arts down in Hells' Kitchen: Creative Digital Minds High School

Too bad there wern't any creative digital minds at the DOE when they came up with this scheme, or they would have realized that you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig.

City Renames Schools Marked for Closure - DNAinfo.com

I am so glad I moved out of the city. Are they freakin' serious??

Richmond Hill High School will be 21st Century School of Richmond Hill

John Adams High School will be Future Leaders High School at the John Adams Campus (this is my alma mater)


"The names were developed through conversations with community members, students, teachers and alumni, according to the DOE." Yeah, umm, if you asked a student they would say, "Why can't we just leave it as John Adams HS or JHS 80?"

Makes you wonder where they're gonna find this extra $$ to make new signs for these "campuses"...

[bg7]

"Future Leaders High School"

I've got a horrible feeling that overtly aspirational names will result in an unhappy ending.

[Gpsma]

Anything touched by professional educrats is always bound for failure. Always remember...those that can't do, teach.

[grvthang]

I like "Academy of Communal Excellence". What a load of horsesh*t.

[bg7]

Everyones A Winner Elementary School