so...it is going to be Cardinal Heights Upper Middle School. Do you think anyone will notice that their sweatshirts will say "CHUMS"? Seeing as it will actually house the "freshmen"...wouldn't it have been a good idea to use "Junior High" in the name? Did we really need administrative time worrying about this? Cardinal Heights sounds like an elderly home or a ghetto....But...on the plus side...perhaps we could get Chumlee, of the History Channel's "Pawn Stars" fame to come out for the deication...perhaps be the honorary mascot?
From one community resident:
"Did they honestly think that that cutesy name [Cardinal Heights Upper Middle School., aka CHUMS] was a good one to put on the Upper Middle School? "
From another resident:
" I'm sorry; I don't know what your opinion was on that name, and the name (Cardinal Heights) is fine as far as I'm concerned. However, that acronym is just asking for trouble. I'm a bit disappointed that Davidson and some of the others took such a whimsical attitude toward something that may well be a point of ridicule for kids. Who knows, maybe I'm the only one that sees it that way, but it just seems to be a bit risky given how these things go some times. "
...and yet another:
With a bit more levity - a mascot suggestion:
How about Chumley of Tennessee Tuxedo fame?
...and one more?
Or perhaps [getting Nickelodeon to pop for] naming rights for the cafeteria at CHUMS?
Name the cafeteria "Chum Bucket" a la Spongebob?
Last but not least
" Sorry to make so much light of a serious issue and potentially treading on your opinion, but I've got to tell you, it's not the best name. Considering the issue there, and perhaps as a way of increasing the "stature of that school", we should consider changing that to Cardinal Heights Junior High School before we print too many things up with the name on it. "
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SP-EYE's 2 cents:
Perhaps its just too close to that awful 80's sci-fi movie, C.H.U.D. ("Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller")....Cannabilistic Humanoid Upper Middle Schoolers???? Seriously board members...we get the almost-too-cute "CHUMS" acronym....but you DO realize that the world has changed ...don't you? I mean...chums, meaning "buddies" is a tad anachronistic, dontcha think? And you DO realize that CHUM also is the word used for fish guts used to draw sharks...right? We don't even have the chutzpah to print it here...but you might wanna also see how the word "CHUM" is defined/used in street slang according to the [word of warning to the faint of heart or those easily offended] Urban Dictionary. Newsflash...that's something the kids use all the time. We hope you're absitively, posolutely certain you want to go with that name before you spend a fortune printing signs and t-shirts, and whatever.
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