Stockton School Named for George W. Bush Opens Today

[Nambe]

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Cities are full of schools named Washington, Adams and Jefferson. In Stockton, however, a school has been named for a current president, apparently for the first time ever.

G.W. Bush school is the first to be built with funds from an $80 million bond approved by voters in 2000. The $13 million campus is situated on 12 acres near the Stockton Auto Mall. It will be home to 850 students. ---

It isn't likely students will become familiar with their school's namesake any time soon, at least not in person. Despite repeated invitations, the president has sent word that his schedule does not allow for a visit to the school.

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[diplomats]

1. Why would anyone name a school after a failed president?

eom

[ixion]

2. ironic on so many levels

imagine... a place of learning named after one of the most ignorant people every born. :eyes:

[Cha]

3. How sad going to a school with that name!

Boy, will they be sorry they named it that.

[Aristus]

4. I guess they're gearing up to churn out a legion

of C-students.

[diplomats]

6. Too bad they didn't name it after Bush

and call it Whistle-ass Elementary School.

[Coffee Coyote]

5. School motto

"Is Our Children Learning?"

Is this Stockton, CA? California schools are the worst, so actually this is a fitting name.

[Minstrel Boy]

7. The next camp at Gitmo

should be called Compound Dubya.

[beanball]

8. Name that outhouse

out here in the backward state of arizona my friend Cactus Clyde the dim one just named his new outhouse the George W.Bush comfort station.

[Lisa]

9. what next -- "The Typhoid Mary Memorial Hospital"?

Do they not teach "irony" in the California school system?

[JohnyCanuck]

10. They just need to hold a fundraiser. Dubya will be there in a flash.

Don't those goofballs realize that if the student body was to organize a $20,000 per head fund raiser, Dubya would be more than willing to take half an hour out of his busy brush clearing summer schedule to drop by in Air Force1 and pick up his check.

[young_at_heart]

11. I could not teach at that school

I'm glad I'm retired......just going there every day would make me want to throw up!

[Sick of Bullshit]

12. What? He can't make it to an elementary school???

He didn't have any trouble hanging out at an elementary school on 9-11

[PartyPooper]

13. This makes me physically ill and depressed.

Dumbya's father, Poppy, is getting an aircraft carrier named after him...and, now Dimson...he gets a school. :-(

And, we all know that eventually, Junior will get a carrier named after him, too. Didn't Adolf Hitler have things named after him?

God, this is so awful!

:evilfrown:

[The_Casual_Observer]

14. It still hasn't happened

" school has been named for a current president, apparently for the first time ever."

Otherwise it would be the Gore School.

[JackSwift]

15. Hello, my name is Jack

and I'm not a graduate of George W. Bush elementary school. The question is, "is our children learning?"

[delete_bush]

16. It gets worse...

<Pictures of President Bush, First Lady Laura Bush and the couple's pets are prominent in the school.>

Pictures of the pets but not the twins? Bush family values, coming to a school near you.

[Octafish]

17. P.S. Whistle Ass

Public School blows out a message: "Kids, even though you were an obnoxious cheerleader, a drunken coke-whore and thief, a deserter in wartime, kicked off of all the boards of all the corporations your anti-Midas touch turned into turds — it doesn't matter. As long as your daddy was America's Secret Policeman, you, too, can grow up to be a smirking stooge for the cabal Sneering Dick Cheney works for.

[robertarctor]

18. Jeebus H. Chrysler on a frickin' crutch

That's my hometown. Grew up there, got the hell out. Stockton, aka Palookaville, is home to one of the GOP's biggest ATMs, apartment developer and San Diego Chargers owner Alex G. Spanos. It's old-school Caucasian California meets the new Golden State reality—the Hispanics and Asians have the numbers working in their favor now.

Actually, I think that school is in Lodi Unified School District. Lodi, 10 miles north of Stockton (which is 45 miles south of Sacramento), is a white-flight suburb with a very active John Birch Society and an, how do I put this delicately, historic tie to the German fatherland of its founding citizens.

If the school my kid was going to got renamed after that fraud, I'd pull her out of there.

[maggrwaggr]

19. No joke, Stockton CA is one of the nastiest armpits of a city I've ever

It's got a horribly high crime rate, a major drug problem and it's just plain awful any way you slice it.

It's a little piece of hell in California.

And now, it just got a little more hellish.

[David__77]

20. I can smell the stench from 80 miles away...

Poor children. I would never want to say I went to a school with that name. Welcome to Richard Milhouse Nixon High!

[pstokely]

21. would they name the school after Gore?

or Clinton

[Dude_CalmDown]

22. Isn’t the Bill Janklow Responsible Driving Academy located in Stockton?

My dog's shit does not deserve the disrespect of being named after shrub.