You can officially use the name of "Rolesville HIgh School" for Wake County's new high school opening on Rolesville and Quarry roads.
Staff had originally only planned to present the naming as an information item today but board members said there was no reason to wait. The board chose Rolesville High School over two other alternatives — Buffalo Creek High and Quarry Road High.
It's scheduled to open in 2013. Wake Forest-Rolesville HIgh may have to drop Rolesville from its name.
The board also officially voted tonight to abandon the name "Forest Ridge High" which the prior board had chosen when the plan was to build the school on Foresville Road in northeast Raleigh.
CORRECTION
No decision has been made yet whether Wake Forest-Rolesville High School will need to be renamed.
Comments
I'm glad to see they have
Wed, 11/10/2010 - 02:18 — aquaman4life68I'm glad to see they have officially named this new school Rolesville High. It's about time to give back small communities "their" schools again, for some kind of identity that they lost 4 decades ago. Secondly, I'm just sick and tired of Wake applying the words "creek" and "road" as part of the names to the schools, they are just so generic it's sickening and just doesn't give any meaning and sense of pride, sinse those kind of schools are a dime a dozen in this county! Lastly , I would just assume, Wake Forest-Rolesville would need to be renamed. No sense in having Rolesville in both names, which again would give Wake Forest their own high school, just as they had 4 decades ago. Granted this will cost money, but in the long run, I feel it will be something that needs to be done.
Rolesville
Wed, 11/10/2010 - 20:11 — prescott2and the fact that Rolesville will contribute 121 our of 2200 prospective students who in fact live in Raleigh or Wake Forest or Knightdale doesn't seem odd. Rolesville is not their community. Perhaps it would have been more welcoming to name the school after something other than a town the majority of the students and families have no connection to.
Name
Wed, 11/10/2010 - 21:10 — HereWeGoHow about "I have been bussed in Hgh"
So you don't have a problem
Wed, 11/10/2010 - 07:34 — danofncSo you don't have a problem with busing?
Money
Wed, 11/10/2010 - 08:38 — HereWeGoIt is irresponsible to commit to changing the name of a High School without a cost estimate. I bet the sign alone will be over $20,000. I would rather see that money go to classrooms.
Might be a good idea to not
Wed, 11/10/2010 - 09:29 — user12345Might be a good idea to not be in a hurry to make the change and do those superficial changes when we have money again.
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Tue, 11/09/2010 - 21:24 — AngelaWPoverty alone does not seem to explain the differences: poor white boys do just as well as African-American boys who do not live in poverty, measured by whether they qualify for subsidized school lunches .
“What this clearly shows is that black males who are not eligible for free and reduced-price lunch are doing no better than white males who are poor,” said Michael Casserly, executive director of the council .
“There’s accumulating evidence that there are racial differences in what kids experience before the first day of kindergarten,” said Ronald Ferguson, director of the Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard. “They have to do with a lot of sociological and historical forces. In order to address those, we have to be able to have conversations that people are unwilling to have.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40095887/ns/us_news-the_new_york_times/