Northern named
Parents whose children will be attending the new northern-area elementary school in January got their wish Tuesday. The Guillford County Board of Education approved naming it Northern Elementary. It had preliminarily approved naming the school after the late poet Randall Jarrell, but some members changed their minds after receiving pulic comments supporting the Northern name.
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Finally the board is following the written policy, but not for long. They will be changing it to accomodate those "very few" people that want to control the naming of our schools. This is wrong!
There is absolutely nothing confusing about the way the current policy is written. The people that want these names put on a school should be presenting the names to the community, not the school board. We should not be naming the schools after people , it just causes controversy.
Posted on July 11, 2007 8:28 AM
Every single name presented to the BOE was presented to the Project Team. Some times the Project Team would hold meetings with the community and not invite anyone that had a name they didn't endorse. One question needs to be cleared up--How big is the community? and how many votes, if any, should people who live in Guilford County but not in the immediate community have. Fair is fair.
Posted on July 11, 2007 10:38 AM
Wouldn't the school's "community" be the attendance area?
Posted on July 11, 2007 11:58 AM
If the only names that will be considered is those from the attendance area, then the BOE should reject all from outside the attendance area. Right?
Posted on July 11, 2007 12:20 PM
If someone from outside the attendance area
would like to propose a name, it should be
presented to the community first ...community
boundaries defined by the school attendance zone.
If this procedure would have been followed, some
of these names would have never made it to the board in the first place. This is part of the current school board policy. It should have overwhelming community support.
The Project Team Names, meeting schedules, project members, project meeting minutes and project member contact names/numbers are not posted for the public to view.
If they are..where?
How are you suppose to know who to contact about issues that the Project Team discusses?
If an agenda is not publicly posted, how do you know what is on the Project team agenda?
I think this information should be posted on the Guilford County Website
Posted on July 11, 2007 2:29 PM
MORGAN
Why is the Smith Academy strand closed for comments?
To continue with Jeff Peeler's comments. Since this is "Guilford County Schools" all schools must go to SMOD immediately. One of the reasons for SMOD was to reduce gang recruiting; another was to know who belongs on school campus and who does not. If Guilford County wants all our school to be safe, they must immediately go to SMOD for all high schools. There is plenty of time to send letters to parents in time for the August tax rebate.
Fair is fair. But we know we have always heard that High Point is different.
Posted on July 14, 2007 8:30 AM
What we need are names that properly describe the image each community is striving to project (and sell to prospective home-buyers and status-seekers). The name of a poet-laureate is hardly suitable (especially since so few residents have ever read him).
How about "Snootyville High"? Maybe "NASCAR Northern"? Wait...let's let the corporations name them and pay for the advertising privilege: "FedEx Elementary".
Posted on July 15, 2007 10:18 AM