On Monday, the Vancouver School Board unanimously approved changing the name of Lord Roberts Elementary, in Vancouver’s West End.
The process was started years ago by the school’s parent advisory council who said the school’s name did not align with the values of the community.
Earlier in January, the Vancouver School Board took the first steps towards a possible name change when the board’s facilities planning committee heard from a report which outlined the community’s concerns with keeping the name.
“For over one hundred years our school has been named after a man who ran concentration camps. He also burned down farms and forcefully occupied the land of indigenous populations, and so was a hero of the British Empire,” reads a post from Ian Rowe, a member of the Vancouver District Parent Advisory Council, who was chair of Lord Roberts’ parent advisory council when the name change campaign was started back in 2019.
Seeing that its the West End how does Władziu Valentino (Lee) Liberace Elementary sound?
The process was started years ago by the school’s parent advisory council who said the school’s name did not align with the values of the community.
Earlier in January, the Vancouver School Board took the first steps towards a possible name change when the board’s facilities planning committee heard from a report which outlined the community’s concerns with keeping the name.
“For over one hundred years our school has been named after a man who ran concentration camps. He also burned down farms and forcefully occupied the land of indigenous populations, and so was a hero of the British Empire,” reads a post from Ian Rowe, a member of the Vancouver District Parent Advisory Council, who was chair of Lord Roberts’ parent advisory council when the name change campaign was started back in 2019.
Seeing that its the West End how does Władziu Valentino (Lee) Liberace Elementary sound?
