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York County School officials said Monday they are getting closer to making a decision on whether to change the name of Magruder Elementary School, four years after it became an issue in the community.
“It’s not going to happen overnight,” Superintendent Victor D. Shandor told speakers who showed up at the school board meeting to demand action on a name change.
That’s in part because there is disagreement over whom or what Magruder was named for.
Those pushing for a name change say the school’s name is meant to honor Confederate Gen. John B. Magruder, “a traitor to this country,” said Mary Lassiter, a Bruton resident who has been advocating to change the name of both that school and James Blair Middle School in Williamsburg.
Others say the school was named to honor the Magruder community, a hamlet of nearly 200 people named after the general that was largely settled by blacks after the…