Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Center School Name Change
A Town resident has submitted a proposal to change the name of Center School in Willington to the Jared Sparks School. Jared Sparks (1789-1866) was an early Willington resident who grew up to be President of Harvard College and a noted historian of the American Revolution. The Board of Education is currently looking for input on this proposal. Your thoughts?
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I prefer to stay with Center School.
I attended Center School and look forward to the day that my children will go there too. I guess I have sentimental feelings about the name, as I'm sure many citizens in town do as well.
Aside from all the warm & fuzzy feelings that many have, I think a better reason to keep the name is that to change it will cost the taxpayers money. The signs, the letterhead, the forms, etc. will all need to be changed and not only will this be a big headache for those who work in admin. at the school, it will end up costing us.
I think it's a nice idea to honor Jared Sparks by naming a school after him, but perhaps we should save that name for any future schools that will be built.
Good points boomerang.
It's an insult and a slap in the face to the person or persons that named the school in the first place.
This is a very expensive idea and will cause problems for years to come.
If Mr. Park has enough spare time on his hands to come up with this maybe he should join the the volunteer fire department; great for the town at no cost to the taxpayers.
The volunteer fire department does cost the taxpayers money. This cost is far less than #1 as these people are volunteers. As everyone in town is aware some people wish to do away with the volunteer department.
The volunteer department should stay and the town should fund their equipment and building.
Money is better spent on that than changing the name of a school.
I agree with the other comments. I am curious, though, the history of the current name.
There's an article in the Chronicle today about Mr. Park's proposal to the BOE. The article offers some insight into how the school got it's name (basically, it was in the "center" of town.) Not too original or terribly clever, but we've had the name for generations.
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