Sure, let the public decide the name of a school...

[JHan]

"The Austin School Board is looking into changing the name of a local elementary school, after hundreds of parents said they take offense to the school's namesake, a Confederate Army general."

Here are the 5 submissions with the most number of votes...

Donald J. Trump Elementary: 45 nominations
Robert E. Lee Elementary: 34 nominations
Russell Lee Elementary: 32 nominations
Harper Lee Elementary: 30 nominations
Elisabet Ney Elementary: 15 nominations

Idiocaracy Elementary
John Cena Elementary School
Drew Brees Elementary
Bruce Lee Elementary
Adolf Hitler School for Friendship and Tolerance
Schoolie McSchoolface

http://www.fox7austin.com/news/local-news/129799454-story

(Old story but.... it still actually happened though. Caught between lol/ing and WTF/ing....)

[NecklyTyler]

1. How about ScoolyMcSchoolFace?

[JHan]

9. lol

[Demoiselle]

10. My personal favorite. I would have liked attending SchoolyMcSchoolFace.

[ret5hd]

2. Idiocaracy Elementary: It's Got What Schools Crave!

(more "A"s)

[femmocrat]

3. Is there anything wrong with Harper Lee Elementary?

Was she from Austin?

[Bucky]

4. Sadly, she served as a little drummer girl in the Confederate army

No, seriously, as much as I support the idea of de-naming schools named in honor of traitors, the trend did get a little carried overboard. There was a moderately successful poet named Sidney Lanier, after whom Houston's prestigious Lanier Middle School was named. I went there, my daughter went there, Walter Cronkite went there, and I even taught there for two years right out of college.

But researchers found out that Lanier served for a year as a private (drafted) in the CSA army. Nevermind that he wasn't famous for fighting in the army, but rather for writing powerful humanistic and lyrical poetry in his later years. Nevermind that the name Lanier Middle School is a well-branded and prestigious calling card for alums--so important that the top contender for renaming was a mediocre mayor named Bob Lanier. Nevermind that Sidney Lanier himself advocated strongly for racial tolerance and healing after the war and spoke out against the Klan in Texas at a time when that took real balls. Nope, he wore the Gray for 12 months and so his name's gotta be purged from the building. What a great lesson for the kids: one mistake in your youth will ruin your name.

[femmocrat]

5. She was from Alabama. Interesting that she received so many votes.

Who knows?

[alarimer]

6. Elisabet Ney is an interesting, nonpolitical choice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabet_Ney

[JHan]

8. Yeah, that came out of left field.

was impressed..

[Laffy Kat]

7. Good way to keep classroom size low.

I certainly wouldn't let my kid go to any school named after Trump.

[jmowreader]

11. They'll have to change the school motto too

'All hope abandon, ye who enter here.'
These words in sombre colour I beheld,
Written upon the summit of a gate.