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Utah School Named After Andrew Jackson Renamed to Honor NASA Engineer
2018-02-09
[Breitbart] A Utah school board voted to change the name of the oldest elementary school in its district from Andrew Jackson Elementary School to honor a NASA engineer with the same last name.

The Salt Lake City school board voted unanimously this week to change the school’s name from Andrew Jackson Elementary School to Mary Jackson Elementary School, the Salt Lake Tribune reported.

Mary Jackson was the first black woman to work as a NASA engineer in the 1950s, and her story was profiled in the movie Hidden Figures.

The elementary school would be the first Utah school to be named after a woman.

The school board mulled over changing the elementary school’s name for years but did not go through with it until it determined the majority of the community would support the change. Seventy-three percent of parents, alumni, and friends of the school supported the change before the vote.
Posted by:Besoeker

#7  And graduate from Herbert B. Khaury High School.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2018-02-09 15:32  

#6  They should have named the school after Johnny Weir instead and forced all the kids to wear sequined jackets and do their hair in pompadours. If we're gonna do ridiculous, might as well go ALL IN!
Posted by: Raj   2018-02-09 13:04  

#5  Before the muzz outreach mission came on the radar...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2018-02-09 10:12  

#4  So Mary Jackson wasn't Andrew Jackson's wife?
That's gonna be confusing to any elementary school kids.


No, of course not. She was his housekeeper at Warm Springs.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-02-09 09:44  

#3  So Mary Jackson wasn't Andrew Jackson's wife?
That's gonna be confusing to any elementary school kids.
Posted by: Skidmark   2018-02-09 09:38  

#2  It's the keeping everyone happy paradox. Having more wives than husbands obviously clouds the thought process.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-02-09 08:36  

#1  What! The father of the modern Democratic Party. Oh yeah, that missing (D) again.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-02-09 08:05  

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