Comments on: A modest proposal for renaming schools whose present names are now considered politically/racially incorrect

By: William Graves

William Graves — Sun, 05 Jul 2020 05:48:48 +0000

MIT uses numbers for their courses, no names. Students memorize all of the important ones. So 21.01 is first year humanities. 6.01 is intro EE. 8.03 is electromagnetics ( the 8…tells you it’s taught in physics), et cetera. Try and sit through a luncheon conversation without knowing the numbers.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 21:25:44 +0000

“Lost in imaginary numbers” sounds like a Twilight Zone episode.
And remember, the world is divided into 10 kinds of people.

By: n.n

n.n — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 19:36:20 +0000

Well, binary, 0 and 1, is out. Black and white, what about brown? Also, male and female is fraught with social injustice. Finally, where do babies come from? Lost in imaginary numbers.

By: Griffin

Griffin — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 16:27:53 +0000

Of course it will never end. Name a school after the town but what if the town is named after a super duper bad person name the school after the street it’s on but what if the street was named after a super duper bad person.

Use huxley’s example of something like ‘Lawndale’ well that’s problematic because slaves were forced to maintain the lawns on plantations by slave owners like George Washington so we can’t have that.

Even the numbers will be bad. PS 161? That’s very troubling because 161 slaves were killed by their evil owner after revolting in 1652 or something and we’ll get that ‘1619 Project’ woman to cook up a whole series of articles about why PS 161 is the best example yet of white supremacy.

Just call them all ‘school’ and hope the kids end up in the right place.

By: huxley

huxley — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 16:05:20 +0000

Maybe schools should all have bland, beige names like “Lawndale High” in the “Daria” MTV cartoon series….

By: Alan Finger

Alan Finger — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 15:50:32 +0000

I went to PS 161, then 165, then Parsons Jr. High (named after the street is was on – I forgot the number). Leaving the city, elementary schools with names took some getting used to.

By: om

om — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 14:02:02 +0000

Hamburgers all over the road in Mystic Connecticut?

By: huxley

huxley — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 13:26:23 +0000

I now identify with this: https://www.facebook.com/MoreScienceHighSchool

Cappy: Don’t we all! The alternative was “Communist Martyrs High School.”

When life imitates Firesign…
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So come on, kids, line up, sign up and re-enlist today because we need more schooling for more students for More Science High!

–Principal Poop, “Firesign Theatre,” “Don’t Crush that Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8drMsE224Y

By: Texan99

Texan99 — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 12:40:43 +0000

I’m with Esther, just assign everyone random password strings. We’ll probably need to do that with our personal names as well. What could be more elitist and patriarchal than family names passed down from colonial times, and through the male line, yet?

I’m far from confident that language itself is defensible. Let’s go back to grunts.

By: Cappy

Cappy — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 12:38:14 +0000

I am too conservative. Hence, my diploma from Cleveland Heights High School has been revoked.

I now identify with this: https://www.facebook.com/MoreScienceHighSchool