The Frisco ISD board of trustees on Feb. 9 agreed to expand the name of high school No. 9, under construction on the northeast corner of Ohio Drive and Lebanon Drive, from the originally proposed Lebanon High School to Lebanon Trail High School. Shana Wortham, the district's executive director of communications who also heads up the school naming committee, said the change was brought about because of the potential conflict with Liberty High School, which is abbreviated LHS. Wortham said the expanded name was also a way "to broaden tribute to the old community and school." Although a group of Frisco ISD residents did speak against the Lebanon name altogether, the naming committee and trustees stayed with the original historical reasoning for naming the school. The Lebanon community and a school used to cover the area, which was also an assembly point for a cattle drive, Wortham said. Trustee Bryan Dodson brought up the pronunciation. Lebanon the community is not pronounced like Lebanon the country. The community is pronounced "leb-uh-nun." "If you're saying Lebanon and you have the thought that you are talking about a country in the middle east, I say you're saying it wrong," Dodson said. Two trustees voted against extending the name to Lebanon Trail High School, saying before the vote they would like to leave the name Lebanon High School. Several residents spoke on behalf of the group against the name Lebanon High School and said their reasons for wanting the name changed had nothing to do with any racial undercurrents. "We always thought we'd have this commonality of American identity and ideology and we didn't see that when this name was announced," one resident said. "We didn't understand where this name came from. We've learned a lot about the history and we understand it. But it's not Frisco We thought that naming a school after a superintendent or a teacher or a volunteer—that makes sense, we see that. The name of our school doesn't represent any type of signage, any type of historical marker"