How to Name Your Alternative School

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Use your own last name as the name of the school.

   Often, private schools have the name of their founders.
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   Step 2: Use the name of whatever educational approach you use.

   Examples of educational approaches are Core Knowledge, Carden Method, Multiple Intelligences, and Sudbury Valley Approach. ,,, This is a very common way to name a school. , Extra points if he or she championed the cause of dark-skinned people, women, or children, or was a teacher. ,, If the school teaches Jewish studies, a Hebrew word fitting this criterion may work!
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   Step 3: Name it for an influential person in your area

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   Step 4: if he or she approves.

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   Step 5: Go to http://www.springhole.net/writing_roleplaying_randomators/surnames.htm

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   Step 6: generate a surname and see if it works for the name of the school.

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   Step 7: Use the name of the street on which your school stands.

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   Step 8: Use the name of a historical figure who is famous in a positive way.

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   Step 9: Use a name reflecting the appropriate religion if your school teaches religious subjects

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    Step 10: Find a foreign word that means "education

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    Step 11: " "school

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    Step 12: " "children

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    Step 13: " or a similar thing and use that.

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