Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.--George Santayana From The Patriot Post, Digest 7-34: In May, Utah’s Ogden School District named James A. Madison Elementary School in honor of our fourth president and the author of the U.S. Constitution. Wonderful, right? Well, not exactly. As a history teacher at the school pointed out recently, James Madison did not have a middle name. To quote the great political historian Homer Simpson, “D’oh!” School-board member John Gullo, whose American Dream Foundation has donated a painting of James Madison to the school, said, “I’m blindsided. I hate being embarrassed.” As luck would have it, the superintendent of the district, Noel Zabriskie, was able to notify the company making the school’s sign in time to have the error corrected. Never fear, our childrens is learning! Alas, they is learning from adults who need a remedial course in history.
The school my wife went to was Aloha HS in beaverton, OR. no joke....when they submitted the name to be registered as a school name it was spelled aloah high school, aloah being a local indian word, for what I forget but it was cool, the person inputing the info in thought that they had mispelled aloha and made the correction. so now you have the aloha warriors. nice huh?
Oh yeah!!! :rofl they also have some towns with some worse names than that, intercourse, pa for one. I have perused the map and laughed several times myself....the things we navigators do to occupy our time.
