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PORTLAND, Ore. -- The Centennial School Board voted to change the names of three elementary schools in the district Wednesday night over concerns of offensive language.

The change will remove the name "Lynch" from two schools.

Lynch Wood and Lynch Meadows elementary schools will be known temporarily as Wood Elementary and Meadows Elementary, pending new names for both schools. Lynch View Elementary will be permanently changed to Patrick Lynch Elementary school.

In the late 1800s, Patrick Lynch donated a parcel of land to the district, which is why so many schools included his name. In recent years, district officials said some students and families had complained that the name "Lynch" made them think of the verb, lynch, and the racist connotation behind it.

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BoSoxGal wrote:Yes, because there's no difference between Loretta Lynch or Patrick Lynch and Lynch View, Lynch Wood, or Lynch Meadows.

This is a non-story story. There's no harm in changing the names, it still honors the honoree while respecting the people whose ancestors were being lynched as recently as 50+ years ago. Much ado about nothing getting puffed up about it.

Lynch Name

Meaning Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Loingsigh ‘descendant of Loingseach’, a personal name meaning ‘mariner’ (from long ‘ship’).

This is now a common surname in Ireland but of different local origins, for example chieftain families in counties Antrim and Tipperary, while in Ulster and Connacht there were families called Ó Loingseacháin who later shortened their name to Ó Loingsigh and also Anglicized it as Lynch. Irish (Anglo-Norman): Anglicized form of Gaelic Linseach, itself a Gaelicized form of Anglo-Norman French de Lench, the version found in old records.

This seems to be a local name, but its origin is unknown. One family of bearers of this name was of Norman origin, but became one of the most important tribes of Galway. English: topographic name for someone who lived on a slope or hillside, Old English hlinc, or perhaps a habitational name from Lynch in Dorset or Somerset or Linch in Sussex, all named with this word.

Lord Jim wrote: Much like the level of ignorance on display with those who are offended by the use of the word "niggardly"...

Kenny Lynch, OBE is an English singer, songwriter, entertainer and actor from London. Lynch appeared in many variety shows in the 1960s.

a lot of manufactured outrage

BoSoxGal wrote: Just a lot of manufactured outrage by persons entirely unaffected by something that is really only the business of the folks in that community.

BoSoxGal wrote:One of the schools is retaining the land donor's full name, the other two are yet to be determined.

The world is constantly changing around you; much of British history is buried under modern Britain. In all likelihood, even if you are well loved at this moment and have procreated, in just a few generations nobody will remember anything much about you. Street names change all the time, buildings named after people get renamed after someone else or torn down altogether, monuments are taken down and others put up in their place. I certainly have no issue with a small change like this to address a concern of people who have been systematically oppressed for hundreds of years, and I doubt very much that Mr. Lynch cares either.

Just a lot of manufactured outrage by persons entirely unaffected by something that is really only the business of the folks in that community.

Nobody really refers to communists as Reds anymore, maybe because there really aren't any big scary communists to be afraid of anymore