An Ontario school board has decided against renaming Oakville’s Iroquois Ridge High School. After months of consultations, it concluded that, while there are “divergent perspectives” on whether Iroquois is an offensive term, to continue the process would do more harm than good.

“There has been ongoing dialogue from many voices on the request to rename the school, and some of this dialogue has become harmful and divisive for Indigenous community members,” says an email from Claire Proteau, the Halton District School Board’s superintendent of education, sent to parents of students in the Oakville, Ont., high school.