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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree.  I live close by and I call the school Flora Singer.  I didn't know there was a name for insiders and my friends and neighbors who send kids there have never corrected me when I refer to it as Flora Singer (or get upset because I dropped the middle initial).  If you are saying that people who don't call it the right name should not post - I don't agree.  They can't post from a first hand perspective but could indicate that they know kids who go there and have heard of the good quality on a second hand basis.  If you are asking about the school, you shouldn't have to know the "insider" name.  If I refer to Albert Einstein HS as Einstein when I ask about it, it doesn't mean I shouldn't go.

As for respect, I don't think anyone means any disrespect when they call the school Flora.  The school was named for a Holocaust survivor and teacher.  She was a great woman and they named a school for her.  People will shorten the name to save time typing or to refer to the school informally.  If I use the GW Parkway instead of the George Washington Memorial Parkway doesn't mean I disrespect George Washington.  It also doesn't mean I would call him George if I met him in person.  The parkway is not the person.  The school is not the woman.  If I met her, I would call her Ms. Singer.  If we became friends, I would call her Flora.  I will call the school Flora Singer because people know which school I am talking about when I say that.  In a forum solely about Flora Singer, you should be able to call it Flora because we all know it means the Flora M. Singer Elementary School.[/quote]

This is so ridiculous.  No one calls it Flora.  If they did then the person who knows nothing about the school could call it that.   I agree that dropping the middle initial is done and so is calling it Singer.  [/quote]

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