Grade schools, middle schools, and high schools are usually named after someone important.  John F. Kennedy.  Martin Luther King.  Buzz Aldrin.  If not a famous historical person, the school will often be named after its founder, who's usually a philanthropic educationally-minded person. 

Not so for the public school district of East Orange, New Jersey.  Of its many excellent (and by excellent, I mean awful) schools, the following three stand out to me: 
  1. Whitney E. Houston Academy
  2. Dionne Warwick Institute
  3. Johnnie L. Cochran Junior Academy
What better role models for our children than a druggie husband-abuser, a delinquent taxpayer, and a Hollywood lawyer.  God bless the children of East Orange. #education