Fie on Pfeiff Field
Perhaps I am missing something, but I fail to see the problem with renaming Lincoln High’s football field to Pfeiff Field, after one of the school’s football coaches. The argument from opponents, as I interpret it, is that a facility used by all schools should be named in a way that is relevant to all of the schools. Otherwise it implies that the facility belongs to the school on whose property it sits, and that implies inequity issues (i.e. “why does that school get a fancy football field while we get a strip of mud and weeds?").
I’m not convinced. I don’t have any problem with a school having ownership over facilities on its grounds, even if the facilities are technically for the use of all schools in the district. I especially don’t have a problem with it in the case of the football field at Lincoln High, which was Lincoln High’s football field long, long before there were even any other schools in the district. Decades of Lincoln High-specific history are tied up in that field. Why deny that fact?
Can anybody convince me otherwise?
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