But we will fight to honor those more deserving than him. Charles Haskell will always be in our books. Water them with the purest of water, not water soiled with traces of discrimination and prejudice. Let them grow into strong, intelligent, glorious flowers. Edmonds motto is “A Great Place to Grow”. Please, think of the children we’re raising. There’s hundreds of others more deserving than Haskell. These are just 2 people whose impacts on Oklahoma were monumental. He sold his land to people of color only, but lost everything in the massacre. Gurley was responsible for the creation of the Greenwood District, or as was referred to in its time before the Tulsa Race Massacre, “The Black Wall Street”. She pursued a terrific career where she served 6 terms and notably fought for Oklahomans’ mental health, and improved her community. Hannah Diggs Atkins was the first black woman elected to the Oklahoma House of Representatives. But when groups of people are oppressed for centuries, it’s malicious to immortalize those who enforced said oppression. Some may say that history should be preserved. Please don’t glorify the honor of someone who fought to segregate the races and genders of the students in your school. There’s plenty of other Oklahomans worth renaming the school for.

We want to make it clear that this is not an attack against Edmond or CHE, but rather a way to show what the community thinks of how we represent our children. To not only name a school for our future’s children after someone who fought for oppression of women and minorities, but to label them as his nickname and glorify his memory is no longer bearable. Charles Haskell may be a part of our history, but he should not be a part of our present. For 2021, Haskell Elementary School is organized for improvement. This is just a beginning to the horrible things he did. He also fought for the segregation of people of color. He supported the blockage of women and people of colors’ suffrage. People referred to him as ‘Haskell the Rascal’ (Hence the name they’ve given their students). Named after the first governor of Oklahoma, CHE has a school mascot (Charlie the Racoon) and refers to its students as ‘Haskell Rascals’.Ĭharles Haskell was notoriously conniving and prejudiced. One of their most notable, Charles Haskell Elementary, was built in 1983. * This rank is derived from data in the 2016 California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP).Edmond Public Schools, a district in Edmond, Oklahoma has 17 Elementary Schools. Schools in the 90th percentile and above have rank 10, 80%-89.999% rank 9 and so on.Ī similar number of schools occupy each rank. The CSR Rank is determined by a school's percentile inĬomparison to other schools of the same type in California (from 1-d above).Schools of the same type (elementary/middle/high school/K-12) in California that have an equal or lower combined Math+English weighted percentile (from 1-c above).įor example, a school in the 70th percentile would have a combined weighted percentile that was equal to or better than 70% of the other schools of the same type. How percentiles work: the school percentile is a number between 0 and 100 that reflects the percentage of.(elementary/middle/high school/K-12) and a percentile-within-the-school-type is calculated. The combined Math+English weighted percentiles are put into an ordered list for the particular type of school.Math and English percentiles from (a & b above) are weighted, based on the number of students who completed each type of test, to create a combined Math+English weighted percentile for each school.For a given grade level, all English scores are put into an ordered list and a percentile is calculated for each score, based its position in the list.For a given grade level, all Math scores are put into an ordered list and a percentile is calculated for each score, based its position in the list.

California School Ratings (CSR) computes percentiles in this way:.

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