Just name the new High School ‘Jefferson’ and get it over with

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Don’t you love all this ‘officialness’ and ‘secrecy’ surrounding the new school names? Shocker? Right?

More than 2,000 people weighed in on names for a new Sioux Falls high school and middle school after a survey went out last month.

But the public won’t know what their name suggestions were.

Sioux Falls School District spokeswoman Carly Uthe told the Argus Leader on Wednesday that suggestions will be given to a naming committee assembled by Superintendent Brian Maher. That committee will meet privately to review the suggestions, choose a name for each school and bring those names before the school board for a final vote as early as Jan. 28.

“We aren’t releasing any specific names we’ve received,” Uthe said via email.

So Why the F’ck did you ask for them to begin with? What would be the harm in 1) Showing the TOP 20 suggestions to the public (that fit the criteria) and 2) having the naming committee’s meeting open to the public with public comment? How is a secret meeting, with secret people selected by the Super have anything to do with involving the public?

You might as well skip all this hoopla, slap Jefferson’s name on the new HS and get it over with.

Posted in: SF School District, Sioux Falls

15 Thoughts on “Just name the new High School ‘Jefferson’ and get it over with”

  1. Scott on January 2, 2019 at 2:34 pm said:

    They like to create drama along with the closed door secrecy. They’ll then have a press conference to reveal the name.

  2. l3wis on January 2, 2019 at 2:36 pm said:

    If they put Janklow’s name on any of the schools, I will move to Larchwood, and this time I mean it.

  3. "Very Stable Genius"......IS BACK! on January 2, 2019 at 3:35 pm said:

    I am hoping for a compromise, where they can keep the Mt. Rushmore motif going, but by just naming it after George Jefferson instead:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kiw74HT-XT8

  4. "Very Stable Genius"......IS BACK! on January 2, 2019 at 3:52 pm said:

    I can’t wait, until they exhume BJ’s casket and replant it in the new east river national cementary; because the local media will then talk about it for an entire week….

  5. "Very Stable Genius"......IS BACK! on January 2, 2019 at 3:56 pm said:

    “ceme(n)t(a)ry?” Or, was that subconsciously intended?

  6. The Guy from Guernsey on January 2, 2019 at 6:46 pm said:

    Subliminal thought even placed the word ‘plant’ into the post. Auto correct works in strange ways, VSG…IB.

  7. IDK on January 2, 2019 at 7:24 pm said:

    Just put in a request for the list. The survey results should be public knowledge. It won’t be Jefferson, it will be Trump High.

  8. anominous on January 2, 2019 at 9:51 pm said:

    what mascot would Bill Janklow HS have.

  9. moses6 on January 3, 2019 at 12:13 am said:

    Jefferson was a slaver, Visit his plantation and you will know why.

  10. D@ily Spin on January 3, 2019 at 6:30 am said:

    Don’t paint ‘Jesus’ on it!! Jefferson is the last face on Mt. Rushmore without a high school named after him. Otherwise, Pelosi?

  11. l3wis on January 3, 2019 at 9:35 am said:

    BJ HS would have a polished turd as a mascot.

  12. The Guy from Guernsey on January 3, 2019 at 10:10 am said:

    Whatever the mascot for Sioux Falls William J Janklow High School, it would wear a Members Only jacket and carry a portable bull horn speaker.

  13. "Very Stable Genius" on January 3, 2019 at 12:55 pm said:

    The Janklow Speedsters!

  14. Ljl on January 4, 2019 at 1:50 pm said:

    Speedsters made me chuckle.

  15. Erica on January 9, 2019 at 12:06 am said:

    Jefferson High School
    Russell Means Middle School

    My suggestions anyway since we won’t get to find out what any of the suggested names were. How does one get on the “naming committee” anyway. Didn’t see any notices going out to parents of students in the school district to volunteer for such a thing as there is for other committees.

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