BY JOLIE BROOKS, CHS JUNIOR
Clover, SC - CSD High School #2, Middle School #3, and Elementary School #8 have finally been named. The Clover School District School Board voted on names, mascots, and colors on January 29, 2024. High school #2 will be known as Lake Wylie High School, named for its geographical location near Lake Wylie, which was named after Dr. Gill Wylie and Dr. Robert Wylie, who made plans to construct the first dam built on India Hook Shoals. Lake Wylie High School’s mascot will be the Chargers, a mascot to represent the history of why Lake Wylie was made in the first place, to create electricity. The new school’s colors will be light blue and gold. Middle School #3 will be known as Roosevelt Middle School, a way to pay tribute to the segregated Roosevelt school. Roosevelt Middle School will also have the mascot and colors of the old school. The mascot will be the Tigers, and the colors will be blue and gold. The colors will also be a way to connect the other middle schools, bringing the blue from Clover Middle and gold from Oakridge Middle together. Elementary School #8 will be known as Liberty Hill Elementary School. As explained by Bryan Dillon during the school board meeting on Monday, this name denotes the school's historical location, where Hill’s Iron Works used the iron found in Nanny’s Mountain to manufacture arms and munitions sold to patriot forces on site. The mascot selected for this school is the Patriot, which can also be tied in with the area's history, honoring the patriots who fought against the British during the Revolutionary War. Liberty Hill Elementary's colors will be red, white, and blue. Some of the process included breaking into separate focus groups and presenting recommendations to the Board during the January Work Session. The high school focus group recommended Lake Wylie/Wylie, Liberty Hill, Lakeside, and East Clover. The middle school focus group recommended the name Roosevelt. The members felt that it could bring the community back together instead of dividing the community like it did in the past. The elementary focus groups recommended Allison Creek, Mountain View, Liberty Hill, and Lakeside. Together, the focus groups recommended staying away from names that would create confusion and names that would duplicate other local/regional names. The Administrative Regulations of School Board Policy have some naming regulations that offer a few guidelines to help determine the names of new locations. The regulations include facilities’ named to denote location, names that show natural settings of the facility’s location, and that buildings are not normally named for a person, but under certain circumstances the scenario has occurred. CSD currently has schools named that follow these guidelines. For example, Clover High and Bethany Elementary are named for their locations. Crowders Creek was named for its natural setting, and Kinard was named after a former superintendent, Dr. Thomas Kinard. If you are interested in learning more about the process you can visit https://www.clover.k12.sc.us/construction. Comments are closed.
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