{"id":271,"date":"2015-02-04T20:08:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T20:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rf.podcastfixit.com\/index.php\/2015\/02\/04\/public-invited-to-name-laval-schools\/"},"modified":"2015-06-01T19:40:38","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T19:40:38","slug":"public-invited-to-name-laval-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2015\/02\/04\/public-invited-to-name-laval-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Public invited to name Laval schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<b>By Robert Frank<\/b><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesuburban.com\/\">www.thesuburban.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Want to name your school after a deserving English Quebecer? That\u2019s one of the options, now that Sir Wilfred Laurier School Board (SWLSB) has opened its school-naming process to the public via the Internet. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not every day that you get to open a school, so we\u2019re very excited to move forward,\u201d SWLSB chair Jennifer Maccarone told <i>The Suburban.<\/i> It\u2019s a great way to involve everyone in the community and we hope to get lots of responses.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Four of SWLSB\u2019s Laval high schools will be consolidated into two, July 1. The former school names are: Laval Liberty High School and Laurier Senior High School, currently co-located at 3200 Souvenir; and Mother Teresa Junior High School and Laval Junior High School, currently co-located at 2323 Daniel Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>Maccarone said that any Quebec resident may suggest a name for each of the schools. \u201cEveryone gets to submit,\u201d she emphasized in an interview. \u201cIf you go to our website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swlauriersb.qc.ca\/?page=schools\/namemyschool\">www.swlauriersb.qc.ca<\/a>, you will see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swlauriersb.qc.ca\/?page=schools\/namemyschool\">a link to the Name Your School Contest<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Feb. 13 deadline<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The sky\u2019s the limit, and SWLSB students have already been brainstorming potential names, Maccarone said, adding that officials have placed very few limitations to their imagination. <\/p>\n<p>The name has to be easily translatable into French and could include suffixes like Junior, Middle or Senior, she added, \u201cbut they don\u2019t have to.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re open. We\u2019re not favouring any particular approach. If it\u2019s a person\u2019s name, though, it ought to be someone who has made a significant contribution, and you can\u2019t name a school after a living person like William Shatner, for example,\u201d Maccarone explained. \u201cIt also can\u2019t duplicate the name of any other school in Quebec.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The contest closes at 3 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 13. The next day, SWLSB\u2019s elected commissioners plan to review all the submissions and narrow down the choices to five names per school. <\/p>\n<p>Then, Feb. 23-24, they will share those five choices with the two schools\u2019 provisional governing boards, who will narrow down the options down further, to three possible names. <\/p>\n<p>Next, SWLSB plans to send parents an e-mail message, Feb. 26, inviting them to vote electronically. The results of the ballot will be announced when the school board commissioners meet, April 22.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy law, it is the council that ratifies the schools\u2019 new names, but ultimately it will be the community that decides what the name of their schools will be,\u201d Maccarone said. \u201cIt\u2019s fun and a great way for us to connect with the community.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>When students return to class in September, they will be invited to participate in a separate contest to design logos for their newly re-baptised schools. The results of that contest will be announced in December.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/rf.podcastfixit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/141102-Jennifer-Maccarone-3-SWLSB-election-night.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rf.podcastfixit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/141102-Jennifer-Maccarone-3-SWLSB-election-night.jpg\" height=\"320\" width=\"291\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<b>Jennifer Maccarone<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<b><i>(Photo \u00a9 Robert Frank)<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Robert Frankwww.thesuburban.com Want to name your school after a deserving English Quebecer? That\u2019s one of the options, now that Sir Wilfred Laurier School Board (SWLSB) has opened its school-naming process to the public via the Internet. \u201cIt\u2019s not every day that you get to open a school, so we\u2019re very excited to move forward,\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Public invited to name Laval schools - Newscoverage<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2015\/02\/04\/public-invited-to-name-laval-schools\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Public invited to name Laval schools - Newscoverage\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Robert Frankwww.thesuburban.com Want to name your school after a deserving English Quebecer? 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