This is just plane nonsense

ALAMEDA — Just a stone’s throw from Encinal High School on this island town’s western end sits the once-bustling but now-shuttered Alameda Naval Air Station. The proximity is not merely physical: The school’s athletic teams are the Jets, its newspaper is the Jet Blast, and its mascot is a smiling cartoon plane.

But the harmony between school and armed services is under strain now as a small group of Encinal’s teachers and parents attempts to bar the return of a retired Marine Corps jet to a display on the school’s front yard.

…David Olstad, a volunteer who assists on technical support issues at the school, said, “I’d just as soon see a .357 Magnum blown up and put on a pedestal. I mean, there’s no difference to me. It’s glorifying violence.”

Janet Gibson, a school board member and Alameda resident since 1973, said she’s long considered the jet an inappropriate emblem for Encinal. “I would think there is a better symbol for the school, something that might reflect education and intelligence,” she said.
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If this school is like most government schools then maybe an appropriate symbol to put up is a large brain full of mush or maybe a globe of the world with the countries misnamed.