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Until people start crying about PS-1 through PS-10 being in more affluent neighbourhoods and somehow going to PS-73 means you're being oppressed by colonial powers.

I'm all for number naming btw. They should do PS-${RANDOM} or assign them by random to district.

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Even randomized numbers wouldn't liberate you from the complainers. 69 and 420 would probably be the first to fall. 13, 88, and 14 would also likely get some people upset. And if you remove 13 but not 4, 17, 39, 616, or 666, you'll leave an opening for the complainers to accuse you of all sorts of biases.

It shouldn't be too hard to skip numbers that show up too frequently in prison tattoos.

At least make the STEM oriented one 314.

I worked for a school district, and all the schools had numbers as well as names. The numbers were used on the district map, and for rfc1918 addressing (each school was 10.x.0.0/16 and there was a big NAT at the district office, but that was in 1998 or so).

Randomising the numbers, if there's already numbers in place would most likely be confusing.

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