Call newspapers – Board Discusses Changing Mehlville School District’s name
August 01, 2007 – If anyone has an idea for a new name for the Mehlville School District, Board of Education members would like to hear it.
Board members discussed the idea of changing the school district’s name during a retreat in Maplewood. No final actions were taken by the board at the daylong retreat.
Board Vice President Karl Frank Jr., who proposed the discussion as an admittedly “radical” suggestion, said he simply is trying to gauge community sentiment toward considering a new name.
Because the Mehlville School District encompasses a number of local communities, Frank wonders if the district’s name still is reflective of its entire population.
“The Mehlville School District is more than just Mehlville,” Frank said. “It’s Mehlville, Oakville, Concord, Lemay and Green Park. If I had my choice, I would like our community to pick a name that represents the values and integrity of our community.
“Some examples of that, I’m not real sure. But that would be, I think, a community process or procedure if they would choose to do it.”
Frank and several board members also were careful to note that they would only discuss the idea of a name change for the school district and not its schools, which would retain the same names…. Click the link above to read the rest of the story.
