Middle schoolers propose name changes at Miles, Sam Hughes schools - AZ Luminaria

Middle schoolers propose name changes at Miles, Sam Hughes schools - AZ Luminaria

Names have power.As seventh grader Varun Shankar can tell you, his school, Miles Exploratory Learning Center, is built on Indigenous land.This semester, Varun and his honors social studies class investigated this history.And after a research project taught them more about the past and the school’s namesake, it led them to a bold solution: Give Miles, a school known for integrating deaf and hard of hearing students and Sam Hughes Elementary, new …