How about a South Central Guilford High School?
Guilford County hasn't exhausted all directional naming opportunities for its schools, says reader Steve Williams of Rockingham County.
He was responding to school board chair Alan Duncan's assertion in a story Monday that the planned Northern Guilford High School means the county will have used up all points on the compass in naming rural schools.
Williams says Guilford could do like Pitt County and name a school South Central. Future growth of Pitt County could lead to a North Central High, West Central, East Central, Northwest Central, Northeast Central, Southwest Central and Southeast Central.
Williams says as best he can determine Northern Guilford will become the 33rd school in NORTH Carolina with the name north or northern in its name.
The others include Northampton County-East and Northamption County-West. And of course there's Northwest Guilford and Northeast Guilford.
Williams says confusion reigns when schools such as Western Guilford and Western Alamance clash in sports. When fans yell "Go Western," go figure which team they mean.
Williams points out Rockingham County avoided the rush to honor the compass. None of Rockingham's schools bear directional names.
That's not to say they lack direction.