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Annie Martin
Orlando Sentinel
August 18
A majority of people who responded to a recent survey think the name of a College Park school honoring Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee should change.
A Lee Middle School advisory group voted last fall to rename the school, but the School Board decided that the community should be asked ...
Of the people connected to Lee, 62 percent wanted to rename the school, while 56 percent of the overall respondents wanted to change the name ...
Like many other campuses with Confederate names, Lee Middle was named after the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court's historic school desegregation case ...
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/features/education/os-lee-middle-name-survey-20160818-story.html
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Of the people connected to Lee, 62 percent wanted to rename the school, while 56 percent of the overall respondents wanted to change the name.
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)struggle4progress
(118,323 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Of the people connected to Lee, 62 percent wanted to rename the school ("684 people who are current Orange County school parents, students, employees and volunteers" while 56 percent of the overall respondents wanted to change the name ("People affiliated with Lee and three feeder elementary schools were asked to respond to the survey, as well as alumni of Edgewater and Evans high schools".)
One set examined as well as one sub-set.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)I was educated in Florida. lol