Good morning, Wentyl.

It's up there with your first kiss, first job and first car.

Everyone remembers what house they were in at school.

When I was growing up, school houses were named after Australian colonial explorers and their ships, local rivers, British nobility, notable old scholars, religious figures and early politicians.

Nobody batted an eyelid about being sorted into red, blue, green or yellow houses named Cook, Windsor, Churchill, Stapleton, Buffalo, Holdfast, Batman, Cottee, Burke or Wills.

We simply turned up in the right coloured tops, and got on with losing spectacularly at the swimming carnival.

• Culture wars or simple respect?: Schools scrap ‘colonial’ names for Indigenous titles 

I was in the green house, Cleland.

We were brilliant at debating, but catastrophic at anything involving actual physical coordination.

Our school's houses were named after female old scholars from the 1920s: hockey champions and pioneering "lady" scientists.

A century later, these formidable old dames suddenly look like the safer historical bet, compared to the colonial explorers now being erased from schools at breakneck speed.

This week we reported on a WA high school — the latest in a growing queue — scrapping its "colonial" houses, named after the ships of long-dead explorers, in favour of Indigenous symbols.

School names are following suit.

Once, schools were simply named after the suburb they sat in. These days, new schools are far more likely to be handed an Indigenous name than something useful, like the area where the school is located.

While historical revision is necessary in some cases, it seems a pity to completely erase more than a century of tradition without a compelling reason.

See Darcy Fitzgerald’s story here and take our poll on whether renaming school houses is cancel culture or simple respect.

Also this week, we examined the dress codes and bizarre rules of school formals, the fallout from a mother who posted about her missing toddler and the international students course-hopping their way to permanent residency.

Enjoy these and other stories and have a great week.

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