Parents Lose Fight To Change 'Slaughter High' Name
POSTED: Wednesday, April 6, 2005
UPDATED: 12:09 am EDT April 7,
2005
PALM COAST, Fla. -- A group of Flagler County parents have lost a battle to change the name of a new high school that means "slaughter" in Spanish, according to Local 6 News.
The School Board voted 4-1 Tuesday night to keep a new school named Matanzas High School.
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Parents were angered in March when they learned Matanzas meant "salughter," or "massacre" in Spanish, Local 6 News reported.School board members Colleen Conklin and Jim Guines said they received several phone calls from parents asking that the name be changed. Conklin was the only board member to vote against the name.Other school board members said they thought the name worked well for the school and that it was a part of the area's history.The French Huguenots were massacred in 1565 at the Matanzas Inlet. The French soldiers went through today's Flagler County to the Matanzas River where they were going to surrender, but instead were slaughtered.Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.
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IMAGES: More strange stories, images featured on Local6.com Parents were angered in March when they learned Matanzas meant "salughter," or "massacre" in Spanish, Local 6 News reported.School board members Colleen Conklin and Jim Guines said they received several phone calls from parents asking that the name be changed. Conklin was the only board member to vote against the name.Other school board members said they thought the name worked well for the school and that it was a part of the area's history.The French Huguenots were massacred in 1565 at the Matanzas Inlet. The French soldiers went through today's Flagler County to the Matanzas River where they were going to surrender, but instead were slaughtered.Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.
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