The Wake County school board's majority most likely intends its initiative to change the name of Enloe High School as a petty, in-your-face jab at ideological opponents. However, even if inadvertently, they are doing the right thing with respect to this issue.
Enloe currently has a nationwide reputation; college admission folks accord the grades achieved there a higher rank in comparison to most other public high schools across the U.S.A. But once the dismantling of the diversity policy is completed, the need for space at Enloe for base population kids who no longer can be bused to "richer" schools will crowd out magnet kids, and the high-level academic and cultural achievements that now characterize EHS will no longer be achievable. Therefore, calling the school Enloe a year or two from now would constitute false advertising.
So I applaud the board's initiative in this instance. Indeed, it should go further: In light of the inevitable decline in the quality of education for socioeconomically disadvantaged kids with the end of the diversity policy and the concomitant degradation of opportunities for high achievers once the magnet system is degraded, the name Wake County Public School System will also soon be inappropriate. In light of the board majority's evident yearning to roll the clock back to the low-consciousness 1950s, how about Sleep County Public School System instead?
