Three proponents of changing Magruder Elementary School’s name chastised the York County school board at its regular meeting Monday for voting against the name change, after a poll of county residents found a majority wanted to keep the Magruder name.
Resident Sam Ray noted there was little discussion when the board members voted last month 3-1 to keep Magruder’s name.
The board acted after a poll of county residents showed 58% wanted to keep the name. District 1 First district board member Mark J. Shafer was the sole vote for changing the name, and District 5 representative Lynda J. Fairman was absent.
Ray and two other speakers accused Board Chair Kimberly S. Goodwin of appearing on a social video telling the conservative York County Breakfast Club that the board never intended to change the name, and that the survey was done for the optics.
Goodwin denied the charge, saying she had been asked several pointed qu…