Public schools that don't have names

[Anonymous]

And instead are called PS 45 etc.

Is this typical of "bad" areas? Why are some only numbers and other are named?

I went to a private school so this is all new to me.

[Anonymous]

In NYC many/most of them are numbered, and it is no reflection on their quality.

Don't know any DC schools that are numbered.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And instead are called PS 45 etc.

Is this typical of "bad" areas? Why are some only numbers and other are named?

I went to a private school so this is all new to me.

This is a New York thing and no, I don't think it means it is in a bad area depending on the school. Don't think there are any unnamed schools in the DC area.

[Anonymous]

PS means Public School, so PS 45 was the 45th public school opened in New York. DC schools are named not numbered, it's just a different system.

[Anonymous]

In Montgomery County they all have names. Where in the DC area are you that you are finding these numbered schools?

[Anonymous]

The only example of numbered schools I can think of in this whole area is schools that are under construction before they have been named. For example, Flora Singer ES in Silver Spring was called DCC ES #29 before MCPS chose a name, well before its opening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In NYC many/most of them are numbered, and it is no reflection on their quality.

Don't know any DC schools that are numbered.

+1

If you know NYC, well, though you can figure out the neighborhoods that funnel into certain schools and people pass judgments accordingly (or assume they just don't have the money for a private or didn't get into one of the good magnets).

God, I hated NY.

[Anonymous]

Numbering is popular in our jails and prisons. What was the NY educational leadership thinking (real or subliminal)? Apartheid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Numbering is popular in our jails and prisons. What was the NY educational leadership thinking (real or subliminal)? Apartheid.

We realize it's all about you, PP, but New York's school numbering system pre-dates "Apartheid" by quite a long time. It predates the presence of African Americans in meaningful numbers in NY, for that matter.

[Anonymous]

We realize it's all about you, PP, but New York's school numbering system pre-dates "Apartheid" by quite a long time. It predates the presence of African Americans in meaningful numbers in NY, for that matter.

Nonsense. Smell reality. The truth is tough to swallow isn't it?

[Anonymous]

Smell reality? P.S. 1 opened in Manhattan in 1806 (eighteen six). That's reality.

I will add that the PS designation is for elementary schools, the IS (intermediate) for middle schools and that all of the public high schools are named for a person, a place, a theme or a combination thereof, they're not numbered.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Numbering is popular in our jails and prisons. What was the NY educational leadership thinking (real or subliminal)? Apartheid.

Huh? How about numbered streets? Are those hearkening back to slavery?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Numbering is popular in our jails and prisons. What was the NY educational leadership thinking (real or subliminal)? Apartheid.

We realize it's all about you, PP, but New York's school numbering system pre-dates "Apartheid" by quite a long time. It predates the presence of African Americans in meaningful numbers in NY, for that matter.

PS- many of those numbered schools are among the most sought after PS 1 is even still called PS 1 though it is now an art institution run by MoMa.

PS 150, PS 41
PS 6, etc. are all VERY GOOD.

[Anonymous]

PS- many of those numbered schools are among the most sought after PS 1 is even still called PS 1 though it is now an art institution run by MoMa.

PS 150, PS 41
PS 6, etc. are all VERY GOOD.

+ 1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Numbering is popular in our jails and prisons. What was the NY educational leadership thinking (real or subliminal)? Apartheid.

We realize it's all about you, PP, but New York's school numbering system pre-dates "Apartheid" by quite a long time. It predates the presence of African Americans in meaningful numbers in NY, for that matter.

Actually I'm pretty sure there were meaningful numbers of African-Americans in New York in 1806. Or maybe you have a different definition of "meaningful".