Comments on: Board to discuss rescinding new school name

By: j06712

j06712 — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:51:42 +0000

iheartbf and Jack your totally right! Its not appropriate or fair to anyone. There are many other ways to honor mayor Bob. The firehouse, senior center, library. With all due respect his name should be removed.

By: iheartbf

iheartbf — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 03:31:04 +0000

This is hardly something new. Due to weighted votes which gives Prospect and Beacon Falls members of the Region 16 Board of Education 1.3 and .7 votes respectively, as well as a larger population, Prospect will almost always be able to force its will on Beacon Falls. More important than the name is the cost of the new school which Beacon Falls voted against but will nevertheless have to pay for.

By: JACK

JACK — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 20:29:06 +0000

As a Beacon Falls resident, I strongly object to a REGIONAL school building being named after Prospect’s Mayor. If the citizens of Prospect want to honor their long serving Mayor, I suggest they choose a building owned by their town. Would Prospect residents think it appropriate to rename Woodland High School after a Beacon Falls town official? I would respectfully ask Prospect’s Mayor to decline the honor.

By: JACK

JACK — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 21:47:35 +0000

As a Beacon Falls resident, I strongly object to the new Regional elementary school in Prospect potentially being named after Mayor Chatfield. If the citizens of Prospect want to honor their long serving Mayor, they could name one of the Prospect town buildings after him. From what I understand the building naming committee was primarily made up of Prospect citizens. I think you will get a much different perspective if you talk to Beacon Falls residents, who will be paying taxes for the new school building.

By: jd06403

jd06403 — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 21:57:36 +0000

Now, if the School Board jumps through hoops to get it right and still decides to name the school after the Mayor, what would all this jumping around have really accomplished? Does this mean that the Chatfield name must be removed from consideration?

I do not care that there is another Chatfield school in another town. Call it the Robert (Middle Initial) Chatfield School and be done with it. Just do not gold-plate the letters!

By: bf06403

bf06403 — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 18:00:38 +0000

Did no-one realize that there’s already a Chatfield school within 10 miles of this site ? With all due respect to the Mayor and certainly not taking away from his dedication and accomplishments, it seems to me the name’s already taken. It would be a logistic mess for both Region 16 and the Chatfield school that already exists. (I also don’t believe that with all the options for naming a school that a REGIONAL school district should consider a school name that’s so slanted towards one of its member towns.) Unfortunately, I was unable to complete the survey but my suggestion would have been “Region 16 School 26″ as a somewhat subtle homage to the heroes and innocents of Sandy Hook.

By: csedita84

csedita84 — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 16:35:55 +0000

I like the name, it’s a good tribute. There is a Chatfield Elementary in Seymour, However.