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To: The_Media_never_lie

Why on earth would anyone name an elementary school Eagles Nest?


49 posted on 12/05/2016 5:47:49 AM PST by Maskot
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To: Maskot
Why on earth would anyone name an elementary school Eagles Nest?


The main point in choosing the name of a new school today, is to offend no one.

I presume some one saw an eagle or two on the land which it was built. They cannot name the schools for communities as they used to, because there is rival-ism between communities, the schools today are consolidated. They certainly cannot name a school for a historical person, because one person's hero is another's villain.

Almost two decades ago, there was a failing high school in one local community, and a successful high school in another local community. These communities are ten miles apart. The local district would not do what they needed to do to fix the problem school (or the problem was not fixable).

The school district's solution was to compromise and close the two community schools, and to consolidate into one new high school on land in between the two communities in a timber forest 5 miles from each community. No one lives within miles of the new school. They brilliantly named the school "Timberland".

Now it is a failing school in the middle of nowhere, and parents who care and are able don't send their kids there.

How could any one find offense with the name of the school, Timberland, or Eagles Nest?

52 posted on 12/05/2016 6:15:39 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie
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