Does the Name of a School Affect How You Think About It?
By FloatingGum
@FloatingGum (346)
United States
January 20, 2007 4:41am CST
When you hear about schools named after celebrities, what do you think? I remember the first one I can recall hearing about was an elementary school in California that changed it's name to be after Steve Garvey (Dodgers 1st baseman).
We have schools name for "local" celebrities or people who donated a lot to the school. Is that a good idea or can it create resentment when members of that family attend the school?
Does the name "Trump University" really entice people?
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@ShadyGrove (996)
• United States
21 Jan 07
School names do not really elicit anything much - even those named after presidents, celebrities, but TRUMP anything makes me think of a school that's not really real, a scam, a school full of bad hair! lol
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@lisado (1227)
• United States
31 Jan 07
I could really care less about the name of the school in that respect. I'd rather try to find out the school stats, if they have good pregrams or not. I don't really care if Donald Trump went to the same school I am applying to. Just because a "star" went there doesn't mean their school is better than any other. I've seen where auditoriums and such are named after the person who donated the most money toward it, but it means nothing to me.
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@kminer (101)
• United States
24 Jan 07
Huh - ours are named either after the road they are on or a "local famous" person in our local Education process (like a past beloved Superintendent or something).
I think there's a lot of MLK places in larger cities too - I guess I never really though about it. For public school you go where you are zoned .. I pay more attention to University names I think :)
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