Brockton woman begins campaign to name the school for her mother

[Ian David]

Brockton woman begins campaign to name the school for her mother
By Margaret Flynn
Fri Mar 14, 2008, 11:46 PM EDT

BROCKTON - No public schools in the city are named for a woman, but an effort is under way to change that.

As the construction of two new elementary schools continues, Denise Baker-Bradley is campaigning to have one of them named after her mother, the late Mary E. Baker.

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Mary E. Baker was born and raised in Brockton and graduated from Brockton High School and UMass-Boston. She received a master’s degree from Cambridge College.

Baker was the first African-American to work at Brockton City Hall. She also was employed at Massasoit Community College for 14 years, where she became director of minority outreach. She was active with Teen Challenge and the Brockton branch of the NAACP. Baker died in 1995.

More:
http://www.wickedlocal.com/brockton/news/x132538120


I would vote NO.

Teen Challenge is a fundie organization who has bought-in to Bill O'Reilly's fake "War on Christmas." Teen Challenge, rather than actually helping teens, has spent their money to rent one of the most expensive billboards in the Boston area to advertise, "Keep Christ in Christmas."

Fuck Teen Challenge, and forget Mary E. Baker.

Plus, Teen Challenge uses a logo that's a modified version of the Humanist logo, which I feel may mislead possible donors into thinking it's not a faith-based organization.