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cwak
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 Posted - 10/06/2013 : 15:50:47
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Huntsville City schools is building a new school to replace Johnson High. Construction has only just been greenlit, but it has started a lot of controversy in Huntsville. While the new school is being built 2 blocks from the existing school and keeping the same students and faculty They plan to rename the school causing the controversy.
All that being said in relation to this site, and the school not scheduled to open until 2016, does the Johnson history follow it to the new school? The president of the Huntsville school board said that although the school is keeping the Johnson colors and mascot Johnson high school will closed.
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dparker
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Posted - 10/07/2013 : 07:13:53
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The rules we have followed in the past have been..... if the new school keeps the same mascot and team colors then they are considered the same school. In that case the new Huntsville school will just have a new name and assume the J.O. Johnson past records.
That actaully is not uncommon in the past. Erwin became Center Point, Jess Lanier became Bessemer City, Berry became Hoover and Toulminville became LeFlore. There are others that did the same thing.
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cwak
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Posted - 10/07/2013 : 17:46:50
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| Thanks for the clarification. Lee went through this last year and Grissom will at the same time as J.O. What made it unique to me is the degree of controversy surrounding a name change. |
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svmounties
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Posted - 10/08/2013 : 11:59:45
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People are passionate about their school. However a name came to be, when you go there it matters - name, mascot, colors - everything. On a personal level I've had discussions with boosters at Shades Valley, who've tried changing the Mountie mascot from what it traditionally has been - a hillbilly looking moonshiner type - to something resembling Paul Bunyan or the UTEP Miner. They viewed it as embarrassing. They even went so far as saying the old school cartoony Mountie mascot, such as the one to the left, looked like Papa Smurf. But I explained that alumni do not view it as embarrassing, we're proud of the Mountie Man. Before this year when we were struggling, I told them that we used to be good, and the way you get past worrying about whether your mascot is laughed by other schools is whip them and then it won't matter. I prefer the old school Mountie, but I guess new school things can be embraced as well.
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Shane Paschal
Shades Valley High School
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cwak
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Posted - 10/08/2013 : 17:24:11
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| Yeah when Lee went through this last year alumni said keep the name and the school board backed off. This time it seems like PR re-branding not from members of the public. |
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