General William J. Palmer High School

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General William J. Palmer High School
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General William J. Palmer High School
Location of school in Colorado
301 North Nevada Avenue

Colorado Springs
,
Colorado
80903

United States
Coordinates 38°50′20″N104°49′12″W / 38.83889°N 104.82000°W / 38.83889; -104.82000 Coordinates: 38°50′20″N104°49′12″W / 38.83889°N 104.82000°W / 38.83889; -104.82000
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Other namesPalmer High School, Palmer, PHS
Former nameColorado Springs High School
School typePublic high school
MottoA Tradition of Excellence
Established1875 (1875)
School district Colorado Springs 11
CEEB code 060288
NCES School ID 080306000257 [1]
PrincipalLara Disney [2]
Teaching staff87.20 (on an FTE basis) [1]
Grades 9–12
Enrollment1,817 (2016–17 [1] )
Student to teacher ratio20.84 [1]
Color(s)Brown and white        
Athletics conference CHSAA
MascotTerror
Accreditation Western Association of Schools and Colleges
NewspaperThe Lever
YearbookTerror Trail
Feeder schools
  • Holmes Middle School
  • Galileo Middle School
  • Mann Middle School
  • North Middle School
Website www.d11.org/palmer

General William J. Palmer High School, commonly referred to as Palmer High School (PHS), is a public high school in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States. It is the flagship high school of School District 11 and has the oldest International Baccalaureate (IB) program in the area.

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Colorado Springs School District 11

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History

Palmer High School is located at 301 North Nevada Avenue in Colorado Springs. The present building was built by the Works Progress Administration under Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1940. Originally named Colorado Springs High School, Palmer High School was renamed in 1959 after the city's founder, General William Jackson Palmer. At that date, the city had expanded enough to warrant the building of a second high school, Roy J. Wasson High School.

Works Progress Administration United States federal New Deal agency charged with creating work in the 1930s and 1940s

The Works Progress Administration was an American New Deal agency, employing millions of job-seekers to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads. It was established on May 6, 1935, by Executive Order 7034. In a much smaller project, Federal Project Number One, the WPA employed musicians, artists, writers, actors and directors in large arts, drama, media, and literacy projects. The four projects dedicated to these were: the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP), the Historical Records Survey (HRS), the Federal Theatre Project (FTP), the Federal Music Project (FMP), and the Federal Art Project (FAP). In the Historical Records Survey, for instance, many former slaves in the South were interviewed; these documents are of great importance for American history. Theater and music groups toured throughout America, and gave more than 225,000 performances. Archaeological investigations under the WPA were influential in the rediscovery of pre-Columbian Native American cultures, and the development of professional archaeology in the US.

William Jackson Palmer United States Army Medal of Honor recipient, Denver and Rio Grande Railroad president

William Jackson Palmer was an American civil engineer, soldier, industrialist, and philanthropist. During the American Civil War, he was promoted to Brevet Brigadier General and was a Medal of Honor recipient.

Roy J. Wasson High School School

Roy J. Wasson High School was the second-oldest high school in District 11 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States. The Wasson High School campus was closed at the end of the school year in 2013. The Colorado Springs School District campus is now called the Roy J. Wasson Academic Campus.

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Eaglebeak

In 1945, a Native American student, Don Willis, designed Eaglebeak, a caricature of a fictitious Indian chieftain, and the school's teams became the Terrors. In 1985 a local political hopeful criticized the mascot as racist, making Palmer one of the first cases of controversy over a Native American mascot in the United States. Despite the fact that the politician, having lost the election, later publicly apologized to the student body and retracted the charge of racism, the damage was done and Eaglebeak was not to return. In the following years, Palmer experimented with a variety of mascots, to include a two-month flirtation with the Tasmanian devil from Warner Brothers, which nearly led to a lawsuit. [3] [ third-party source needed ]

Native Americans in the United States Indigenous peoples of the United States (except Hawaii)

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In the early 1990s the high school chose an eagle as its mascot, naming it "Eaglebeak", but without the historical background of the original. [3] [ third-party source needed ]

Gender-inclusive bathrooms

In 2016 senior Doe Schall, a genderqueer student, along with others from the school's Gay-Straight-Trans Alliance, lobbied school officials for gender-inclusive bathrooms due to the discrimination experienced by transgender students. Palmer was the first high school in Southern Colorado to have gender-inclusive bathrooms. [4] [5] [6] [7]

Transgender Gender identity that does not match assigned sex

Transgender people have a gender identity or gender expression that differs from their assigned sex. Some transgender people who desire medical assistance to transition from one sex to another identify as transsexual. Transgender – often shortened as trans – is also an umbrella term: in addition to including people whose gender identity is the opposite of their assigned sex, it may include people who are not exclusively masculine or feminine. Other definitions of transgender also include people who belong to a third gender, or else conceptualize transgender people as a third gender. The term transgender may be defined very broadly to include cross-dressers.

Extracurricular activities

Mock Trial

Palmer's Mock Trial program won the Southern Colorado Regional Competition in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, and 2015; the Colorado State Competition in 2009 and 2013; [8] and took 14th place in the National High School Mock Trial Tournament in 2013. [9]

Notable alumni

Notable alumni of Palmer High School include:

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  2. ↑ "A Message from the Principal / Welcome".
  3. 1 2 "About Palmer High School". d11.org. Retrieved June 26, 2012.
  4. ↑ Victor Skinner (March 8, 2016). "Colorado school installs 'gender-inclusive' bathroom".
  5. ↑ http://www.terrortribe.org/phslever/?p=691%5B%5D
  6. ↑ "High school creates gender-inclusive bathroom". KRDO. March 8, 2016.
  7. ↑ Dawidowicz, Christina (March 11, 2016). "Palmer High School opens first gender-inclusive restroom in a public school in southern CO". KXRM.
  8. ↑ "Media & Press". coloradohighschoolmocktrial.com. Archived from the original on July 8, 2011. Retrieved March 10, 2011.
  9. ↑ "2013 Championship Results". nationalmocktrial.org.
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  13. ↑ Epstein, Warren (March 4, 2010). "Homegrown: Laura Veirs flirts with acoustic stardom". Colorado Springs Gazette .
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