According to the authors of this piece in City Journal, only five of Florida’s nearly 3000 public schools are named for George Washington, but eleven are named for manatees. That’s part of a trend, they write, away from naming public schools for public figures and instead naming them after landscape features, bodies of water and animals.
According to this report in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, some school districts forbid naming new schools after any person, dead or alive.
I'm just glad that Gabe Kotter taught at James Buchanan High and not at a school named for a manatee.
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