UPDATE: While it’s too late to cast a vote for BLUE EYES HIGH SCHOOL, Santa Rosa City Schools is hosting an ongoing online survey in which participants can choose between three finalists for a name for its new online high school slated to open in the fall. Care to cast a vote? Click here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/QJHZT3F
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Avid ExtraCredit readers might be wondering what the Santa Rosa School Board ended up naming their new online high school which is slated to open in the fall.
The board, working with some real gems that came in as a result of a survey asking interested folks to weigh in on potential names, chose to ponder the following three for another two weeks:
Santa Rosa Digital Bridge High School
Santa Rosa Online High School
Santa Rosa Virtual Technology High School
Again, avid readers might notice that my personal favorite “High School of Eucational (sic) fun,” did not make the cut. Nor did BLUE EYES HIGH SCHOOL or crimson shadows. Pity.
As discussion of the item concluded (at the end of a rather long Wednesday night board meeting), Board President Larry Haenel noted that the debate hasn’t even taken into account talk of mascots or colors.
“We’re not going to name the mascot are we? The rattlesnakes or bulldogs or anything,” he said.
Bill Fritz
How about Sunrise or Daybreak High and make the colors maroon and blue like the great sunrises we have here in summer or in winter, and with the mascot being the Red Tail Hawk that can be seen hunting for breakfast every morning overhead? After all, that’s when a lot of the students will be working on their subjects before other stuff in the day. What’s really important is to ensure that it broadens the options for the young people in Sonoma County. With all of the budget cuts, they sure need it.
February 12th, 2012 8:10 am