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My_Diet_DrKelp t1_j6bgaxk wrote

Never really put it together til way after I was outta there but my elementary school mascot name was actually the Challengers. We had a big rocket as the symbol & this was actually in the 2000s rather than being around the time of the launch haha they went ~20 years after the explosion to figure that it probably wasn't the best move to have that as the name but they rationalized it as saying it was like 'scholastic challengers' lol the school changed it since I was there however

I was in high school when I finally put it together what the name actually meant & laughed over how ridiculous it was

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Idbuythat-foradollar t1_j6bpf6m wrote

My elementary school was named after McAuliffe, and we were the Challengers. I started there in 1991. My wife cracks up that that was what we were called and says it’s morbid. They still go by the challengers to this day.

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