Parents Object to Name for New School: Lebanon High

posted on: Jan 27, 2015

“The word ‘Lebanon’ still reminds me of all the sad and turmoil that goes on in the Middle East,” a resident said

Some Texas parents are upset over the name of a new high school set to share its name with Lebanon, saying it doesn’t fit their community, which once bore the same name.

The town is now called Frisco.

“The present-tense name of a country that was in the news all the time with reference of war and battleground was always what was on my mind when I would say the name ‘Lebanon,’ ” parent Liffey Skender told the Frisco school board last month, according to the Dallas Morning News. “The word ‘Lebanon’ still reminds me of all the sad and turmoil that goes on in the Middle East.”

She said she’s received two dozen phone calls and more than 100 e-mails from concerned parents who object to the proposed name: Lebanon High School. She urged the board to instead consider calling the school something like “Freedom High School.”

Source: www.washingtonpost.com