Naw, it's iight the way it is. We suppose to stand out from the rest but with a person's name in the school name it will just make it sound like a regular, ordinary school. It'll just lower down the reputation and expectations of a good school. I say just leave it as is.

I dont think we should change the name because it is going to waist more money if we do change the name. We are known as The academy and if we change the name it just doesnt sound professional anymore.

The Academy of Irving is supposed to be different from all the other schools, but by changing the name we will just blind in with the other schools. It sound like a little elementary school name. We stand out as a very well educated school; so many people want to leave this school now jus because of the school name changing. I think its a stupid idea and by them changing it there is going to be so many issues.

ummm , its good how it is , i dont want some guys name on the school he is not even dead YET

I dont think we should change the Academy's name!

I like it when people ask me what school I go to, I would always say oh I go to THe Acadmy and people always ask me whitch academy..And I would say THE academy of Irving! :)

That is our name The aAcademy. We are not just any old academy. We are The Academy of Irving. There is no other place like us and nobody can ever take our name like that. when I say Im part of The Academy of Irving I feel like I am from the best school in Irving. Not a school named after some old dude like every other school that has an old name. The Academy never gets old and Im happy with what the names is now! :)

No, because The Academy is already known worldwide for it's name. There shouldn't really be any change to the school's name.

We shouldn't because it sounds better as The Academy of Irving ISD and plus its alot of money to start changing all the signs and stuff.

i dont like the nama, and i dont want to graduate from a school that has such bad name.

I think no Because its our school we should be able to keep it how we want it

The name does not go with the academy. Its too long to remember and it does not sound professional.

We all know that we are going to get made fun of and ridiculed for having the name Jack E. Singley Academy. I don't have a problem with him having named something after him, he deserves it. Name the administration building after him, anything. Just not my school. Not a High School. No offense to him or anybody else, but he is still alive, and therefore, we should take his opinion into consideration. Correct me if I'm wrong, but he is against this. So with all due respect to Mr. Singley, the active schoolboard is nothing but a group of members who are incredibly stubborn who sit on their high horse and don't bother to listen to the opinions of the students, teachers, and administrators of the school. Just because they're "the school board" shouldn't mean that they have the only say in all this. The fact that they are choosing to rename the school is ridiculous. The school board always acts in a way that is preposterous and beneficiary to them and not the actual students. Listen to what Mr. Singley wants, not to your selfish egos...

I don't completly oppose the name change, only what was selected. I would much rather have something like, JESA. At least could have added, The to the name. It seems to simple and the fact that 'The' is left off of the name just cuts it down more. It is less professional. I feel we could find a good way to honor him and his service, just as honorable as changing the name of The Academy. That's as for the name change. There could be some other collective things that could be done. Such as a new elementary school, the Ad building's name changed (since it is the head of the schools), the Iriving School's Stadium, a montument/statue, or a display-memorial type thing dedicated to him made. Also, he rejected having any building named after him. In order to respect his wishes something completely unique and different could be done for him. When other ideas were suggested they were put down because it was said to not be enough. Well not only doesn't it not follow general rules of the naming system, where high schools are named after national heroes, and against his wishes, he could always do something better. Even the fauculty themselves feel that their voices weren't heard and there wasn't much room for debate or negociation.

i don't recall ever hearing a case that said that our parents ever wanted to change the name after all they are the tax payers that will have to pay for the change of the school. i also think that you shouldn't be able to pull the hes dieing card. not only that if he doesn't want it i think that we need to respect his wishes.

Irving ISD has a order of how they name the schools

elementary - city heroes

middle school - state heroes

high school - national heroes

why don't they just name an elementary after him

im sooo against this! Why would we change the name of our awesome school to honor someone who actually opposed this school even being built. AND he isnt even dead. All he did was be the super intendent. he wasnt even the first one. what about the other guy? did he get a school named after him? i dont think so....

Students, I believe should have a say in this mainly because they/we are the ones attending and pretty much growing up here. Our school name is perfect the way it is, there is no reason for it to be changed. Mr. Singley was a good man, of course we should honor him but not by changing a schools name that is known around the country.

I think that the school name should be the same....not changed....Yes he did contribute much to us but still the Academy is better

No! I don't think we should change the name of The Academy because The Academy is different than the other high schools in Irving I.S.D. If we do change the name, then it'll seem like one of the other high schools, and it won't be unique like we've (as the students) have tried to do. I feel that all the effort we (as the students, teachers, administrators, Vice Principals, etc) put into making the Academy unique and different will be wasted. We put so, so, so, SO much effort to keep the school from being like the others that (I feel) the majority of the students on all floors do NOT want to change the name. Another reason why I feel we should not change the name of the school is because it will sound like a middle school or elementary school. For example, Lorenzo de Zavala Middle School or Otis Brown Elementary both have the founder or a hero's name in the school's name. We don't want that. We want it to be original, simple, and to the point: The Academy of Irving I.S.D. We don't want it to sound like somebody found our school and just was all, "Oh. I know what I want to call this school. It'll be after my name, and yadda, yadda, yadda." We want it to sound like a high technoligical school. We want it to sound like a career practice school. We want it to sound plain and simple: THE ACADEMY OF IRVING INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT. Just like that. NO CHANGE! WE WANT IT PLAIN AND SIMPLE! NO CHANGE!!!

I don't believe it would be a smart move to change The Academy of Irving ISD name, the reason for this is because this will cost money, money that could be used for something more useful and important. I know the reason for changing the name of the school is to honor the retired worker, who in this state had done so much for us, but I believe that the names for the school should be left aside for national figures. I strongly believe that changing the name will change the view that other schools have towards us, I think it wouldn't help the crowd point of view towards The Academy of Irving ISD. Besides all of this I believe that changing the Academy name will just be a waste of time, and money, it's important for us to understand that money at this time is considerably important to know how to spend correctly. I know he is an important person to this state, and he represents much of what we should look up to, but I don't think changing the name of a school is necessary to show how proud we are of him, we should hear his point of view, and I would be sure that he would be honored that his name would be in a school, but I also believe that he knows that this will take time and money, something we don't really have much of in this busy life.

Sincerly,

An Academy Student's point of view

Laura Ponce

Our parents will not like it when they have to pay an extra fee to help the academy change their name. This school is perfect the way it is and doesn't need a name change. Its name was fine before and "The Academy" has quite a remarkable reputation. If we change our name, that reputation of ours will diminish.

We discussed this issue in my class. Our teacher says that if we change our name, we will need a new logo and everything else that has to do with the name. This will cost tens of thousands of dollars. Think of what this school can do with that much money. We can use it to get new equipment for media tech students, buy medical tools and fund HOSA for the medical students, provide art gear and materials for the visual arts and hospitality/culinary students, help fund for laptops, etc... See all the wonderful things we can do with all that extra money?

Instead of renaming our whole school, we can name our new auditorium after Mr. Jack Singley. That way, both sides win; our longtime school board member is recognized for his hard work and The Academy gets to keep its name.

We aren't robots. We have opinions on what happens to our school and should be notified if there are going to be changes on our campus. No one objected to the idea of renaming our school because the supposed "meeting" wasn't announced clearly. If a decision this important was to be made, there would have been flyers that told everyone to come and the students would have been informed, but not a single one of us knew that there was such a meeting. That was why the suggestion of changing our school name was so easily passed.

I know I'm just rambling on and on about this, but I really don't want this school's name to be changed. If you happened to read this far down, thanks for taking your time to hear this student's opinions.

I believe that the name change is extreamly over the limit of what should be done. Give him a medal or something that is not so big. He doesn't want the change, but he should be honored. Changing the name of the Academy is also dangrous because of all the past students who had come here, they will have no past in the new school!

No, because the name is good and it isn't necessary to change it.

This is and has been our school for a while, What happens to all the graduates who went to the academy and its changed to a different name, no one will no the school any more.

I don't think the school should be named after him. Even though it was his idea to make the school in the first place, if you wanna "honor" someone you shouldn't wait till that person is deceased or in this case retiring. If they wanted to "honor" him they should have done it while he was still working for the Irving Isd. And another thing, how can you honor someone that doesn't want to be honored?

No because i just don't like the idea of our highschool name changing. It was okay the way it was and there is no reason for us to change it. Sure they want to honor the dude, but not by changing our high school name. Its just not right because we know our school as The Academy of Irving, and thats how it should be remembered.

I think we shouldn't name the school after Jack Sengley. He was not in favor of the Academy. Why name a school after someone who didn't even like the idea of the school. Name an elementary school after him. Not the Academy.

I dont think we should change it because the guy were

naming the school after didnt even want us to built this school

i think we should leave it how it is!!

>< Jack Singley Academy???? Really? NO. Singley Academy? Meh. Maybe. But I really like the name of our school the way it is. We shouldn't change it. Sorry to people who think we should but let's just stick with what we have.

The name of this school will always be "The Academy of Irving Isd" and no one can stop us in our protest! Plus why even name the school after someone who didn't even want the school to be built?! We should just name the new auditorium after him that way we dont have to spend that much money on changing all the logos. Plus everyone will be happy that way. So deal with it School Board we're not happy about the new change and we won't stop protesting until something is changed!

I dont like that they are changing the name because I like the name is, many people know about our school and changing the name might cause confustion and what about the people that have deplomas.....thats why I think that it shouldn't be changed

By changing the name of The Academy it would just make other people think that were smarter than they already pertain us to be.

I see no point in it because A: we are not the only school with "The Academy" in their school name and B: that would waste too much money. But I do understand why they feel the need to change it. I just don´t think we should.

I think changing the school's name is absolutely ridiculous. I am currently a junior here at The Academy of Irving ISD. I've been here for 3 years and I definitely want to walk the stage to receive my diploma with The Academy of Irving's name written on it. I DO NOT WANT TO HAVE SINGLEYS NAME ON IT! This school has been well recognized since its grand opening. I proudly state that I am a student from The Academy of Irving.

Mr. Singley is an outstanding man & should be recognized in all sorts of different matter, however changing OUR school's name is not one of them. Every one will still call it The Academy of Irving. We have been use to calling it that name & it will remain that way until all the students here graduate & the new freshmans arrive.

No, he hasn't done anything. That is why he kept getting re-elected, because everyone would rather have some one who wont change anyhting, than some one who will mess stuff up.

Also, we are wasting so much money by changing the name of the whole school. Has no one accounted for the fact that all our letters have "Acadmey of Irving ISD" printed on them? Now those have to be thrown away and new ones with the new name printed. Plus all the signs released.

Yes, he has serves the school board for a long time, but why don't we just name the new auditorium for him instead? Way less cost, and still the same honor.

The academy all ready have a proffesional name and i dont igree by changing it.

No, the name should not be changed. As it has been mentioned, it will be costly and a hastle. Mr. Singley has served a good long fortysomething years and SHOULD recognized but not by naming The Academy after him. He should have a statue or another memorial after him not a school, at least not The Academy. I think that the reason they chose The Academy is because we are the best known school in Irving and the schoolboard thinks that it is the biggest honor for the man but honestly I dont think he deserves that much of an honor. The Academy will be standing years and years after he is gone and maybe after we, the students are gone. I think that by then, no one will remember who Jack Singley was and it really wont matter so "The Jack E. Singley Academy" wont be symbolic and meaningful in any way to the type of school that THE ACADEMY is. Mr. Singley should be recognized but not by naming him after a school that was born as "The Academy of Irving ISD," and that has earned its respected reputation this way all along. The school's education program will improve and the name of our school will be worth alot more some day as it is, not as The Jack E. Singley Academy, so lets just keep the name that the school was started with and see how successful it will become.

Because the Academy is already good name why change it?

all what irving isd is going to do is invest money on the Academy Sign; Logo; etc.. BORING!

>:l

No. Because it is a great name, it has come to represent superiority amongst the other schools. The name of the Academy is fine. It is a distinguished name. Jack E. Singley can have other schools or buildings or streets named after him.

WHY ARE THEY DOING THIS? WHO EVER WANTED THE SCHOOL NAME TO CHAIGE WAS A KISS UP. AND WHY THE ACADEMY? WHY NOT CHAIGE THE ISD BUILDING NAME??!!!

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