Parents lobby to change name of Florida school with initials 'IPMS'

[TexasTowelie]

Parents in Orange County, Fla., are calling on the school board to change the name of the new Innovation Park Middle School because the initials spell out "IPMS." Photo by Chris Clark/Change.org

March 15 (UPI) -- Some parents of Florida middle schoolers want a soon-to-open school to change its name to avoid being abbreviated as the initialism "IPMS."

Christal Feldman, who started a Change.org petition for the issue with her allies, said the name of Innovation Park Middle School, which is scheduled to open in August, opens children up for menstruation-related ridicule due to the school's initials, IPMS.

"What the parents are concerned about is that the acronym for Innovation Park Middle School is IPMS and it was suggested our colors be red, white and black. They don't want to go to a school and wear a red shirt with the letters IPMS across the shirt for athletics, for academic competitions. They just don't want to be ridiculed or be made fun of from other students from other schools," Feldman told WKMG-TV.

The petition states the name is a "potential disgrace and embarrassment to the students, faculty and school board of Orange County."

Read more: http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2017/03/15/Parents-lobby-to-change-name-of-Florida-school-with-initials-IPMS/2711489596330/

[madaboutharry]

1. They have a good point.

They should just name the school after Abraham Lincoln or some other non-controversial person.

[Renew Deal]

2. Barack Obama

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

3. No one involved with the naming ever taught school

or they would realize how utterly stupid this is!

What a bunch of dumb asses.

I can just see the signs - red blood dripping over the name.

[TexasTowelie]

4. I guess it could be worse.

They could have chosen their mascot to be "the beavers".