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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would have been proud to go to a High School named after "The Big Train" (Walter Johnson).

Thomas Sprigg Wootton, not so much.  But I agree with the OP, if some kid sees that name every school day, the barest glimmer of curiosity should flicker at least once...  Don't the school entrances have little plaques or photos on the wall in dedication ?

"I make it a habit to ask each student who their school is named after and what the person did in life.

There is one school where less than 1% were able to tell me. "

I hope you tell the kids that don't know - just for fun.  It could be 15 seconds of "huh - I didn't know that".  I bet some of them might even ask their clueless friends later, to see if they knew...

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Isn't more a failure of the principal and staff to educate the students about what the person did in life?  At Walter Johnson a series of principals have made sure that the kids know who he was.  The lunch has a baseball theme and so do the yearbook and newspaper.  There is a statute outside of the school that was donated when they tore down the old stadium in DC where he played.

At Richard Montgomery there is a gigantic mural in the lobby that tells a story.  You can't help knowing what RM did in life by looking at that mural.

Whitman and Churchill?  All the kids know and can tell you what he did.

Wootton?  Almost no one knows including the teachers.  I say its a failure of leadership at that school.  How long would it take to include a block of instruction to teach the kids?   There is nothing in the school.  No plaques, no memorials, and no photos.  I had a football player once and I asked him who Thomas Wootton was.  He started in with a long explanation and I asked him where he had learned it.  He shrugged and said, "used Google.  Imagine that.[/quote]

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