'Lynch View' elementary school must change it's name

[hjmick]

Trump used the phrase "paddy wagon" just the other day.

As an American of Irish descent, I was and am offended. I demand an apology...

 

[jillian]

Forget the fact that the land to build the school was donated by the 'Lynch' family, let's not let the facts get in the way, let's just make damn sure someone doesn't have their wittle feelings hurt.
Just when you thought the PC movement couldn't get more insane.


23107905-mmmain by Lynch elementary schools will lose the 'Lynch' due to racial implications

The national movement to change racially offensive names of buildings, sports teams and landmarks will soon touch a group of schools in southeast Portland. Lynch Meadows, Lynch Wood and Lynch View elementary schools will shed their "Lynch" before the upcoming school year in response to growing concern about the word's racial connotations.

The schools, part of the Centennial School District, were named for the Lynch family, which donated land over a century ago to build the first of the schools. But Centennial Superintendent Paul Coakley says many newer families coming into the district associate the name with America's violent racial history.

The upcoming change is a new step in a movement that, in Oregon, has focused primarily on names insensitive to Native Americans. Several geographic landmarks whose names included the term 'squaw', now considered a slur against Native American women, have been renamed in recent years. And in 2015, the Oregon Board of Education backed advocates in a controversial move that pushed 14 Oregon high schools to change their Native American-themed mascots.

Now that movement, most prominent on college campuses, with professional sports teams and among state geography boards, has reached the elementary school level.

Lynch elementary schools will lose the 'Lynch' due to racial implications[/SIZE]

why do rightwingnuts think decency is "PC"?

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Well the snowflake school board voted for the change. Morons.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Forget the fact that the land to build the school was donated by the 'Lynch' family, let's not let the facts get in the way, let's just make damn sure someone doesn't have their wittle feelings hurt.
Just when you thought the PC movement couldn't get more insane.


23107905-mmmain by Lynch elementary schools will lose the 'Lynch' due to racial implications

The national movement to change racially offensive names of buildings, sports teams and landmarks will soon touch a group of schools in southeast Portland. Lynch Meadows, Lynch Wood and Lynch View elementary schools will shed their "Lynch" before the upcoming school year in response to growing concern about the word's racial connotations.

The schools, part of the Centennial School District, were named for the Lynch family, which donated land over a century ago to build the first of the schools. But Centennial Superintendent Paul Coakley says many newer families coming into the district associate the name with America's violent racial history.

The upcoming change is a new step in a movement that, in Oregon, has focused primarily on names insensitive to Native Americans. Several geographic landmarks whose names included the term 'squaw', now considered a slur against Native American women, have been renamed in recent years. And in 2015, the Oregon Board of Education backed advocates in a controversial move that pushed 14 Oregon high schools to change their Native American-themed mascots.

Now that movement, most prominent on college campuses, with professional sports teams and among state geography boards, has reached the elementary school level.

Lynch elementary schools will lose the 'Lynch' due to racial implications[/SIZE]

why do rightwingnuts think decency is "PC"?

Why do nuts like you think it's the "decent" thing to do is to change the name, instead of educating the children as to why name is there in the first place ?

This is not only a slap in the face to the Lynch family that donated the land, but it's a slap to assume that there will be those that will be too dumb to understand why the name exists.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

I've got to say, l'm really angered that this thread was placed here and not left where I posted it which was Current Events.

This story is NOT about "education".