Chesham High to become Chesham Grammar in Sept 10
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Chesham High to become Chesham Grammar in Sept 10
You heard it here first !
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I spoke to someone earlier who said that all the kids were told about it yesterday. (I did briefly remove this thread from the Forum until I got some confirmation that it was public knowledge, so if anyone thought their eyes were deceiving them, please don't lambast your optometrist!)
She also mentioned that there is a Facebook group about the name change.
I took a look and it had acquired 424 members in less than 24 hours - in fact less than 8 hours as, when I looked at it, most of them must have joined yesterday evening. It seems to consist entirely of kids - no adults - and the verdict seems to be more 50/50 than "completely anti". The quality of critical thinking is of the usual variable standard for teenagers!
It does seem a sensible change, as I posted earlier, and I think the whole thing will be a storm in a teacup in the end.
She also mentioned that there is a Facebook group about the name change.
I took a look and it had acquired 424 members in less than 24 hours - in fact less than 8 hours as, when I looked at it, most of them must have joined yesterday evening. It seems to consist entirely of kids - no adults - and the verdict seems to be more 50/50 than "completely anti". The quality of critical thinking is of the usual variable standard for teenagers!
It does seem a sensible change, as I posted earlier, and I think the whole thing will be a storm in a teacup in the end.
Well quite and I totally understand where Phillip Wayne is coming from. Despite the fact it will always be dear old Chesham High to me, it is a grammar school; the 'High' bit was always a bit ambiguous. As one wag once said to me after I told him I went to Chesham High: "Oh, is that a girls school?" Err....Sally-Anne wrote:It does seem a sensible change, as I posted earlier, and I think the whole thing will be a storm in a teacup in the end.
They should have called it Chesham Grammar after it stopped being a tech school.
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That's very heartening to hear. I imagined most people giving a knee-jerk negative reaction because of tradition, aversion to change etc.Sally-Anne wrote:IApparently there has been a consultation with both staff and pupils about the change to the name of the school and the reaction was favourable.
How enlightening. How refreshing. How very Chesham High.
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