Parents and staff at Gardner Street Elementary School in Hollywood have voted to keep Michael Jackson's name on the campus auditorium, in wake of the March broadcast of the documentary “Leaving Neverland.'
Michael Jackson stands fourth from the left in the front row in his 6th-grade class picture from Gardner Street Elementary School in Hollywood.
Officials decided to put the matter to a vote of the school community in balloting that ended Thursday. Jackson was charged and acquitted in 2005 in a separate sexual abuse case involving another boy. During the criminal trial, Robson testified in Jackson’s defense that the singer had never been sexually inappropriate with him. He came forward with a different account after Jackson’s death, claiming he’d been sexually abused by Jackson as a boy.
The auditorium was named in his honor in 1989, a point at which Jackson’s public reputation was still essentially intact. Urbina was principal in 2003, when Jackson was charged with sexual abuse — and the school system covered Jackson’s name with plywood. Urbina was still at the school in 2010 — a year after Jackson’s death — when L.A. school district officials authorized displaying the foot-high letters of Jackson’s name once more.
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