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RALEIGH -- A Wake County School Board committee recommended changing policy to allow schools to be named after people. Currently, schools are named according to their geographic location.

The school board back in 1988 decided not to have schools named after people anymore. Officials say it's because the issue would just get too politically charged. But, schools like Enloe High School were allowed to keep their names. That could soon change.

Comments made by the former Raleigh mayor were brought up during a protest last week, but some board members say it shouldn't change things.

"I think just to hear one comment about the person the school is named after and now wanting to go through the process of looking at the name is knee-jerk," said Keith Sutton, a member of the Wake County School Board.

The committee's recommendations will be addressed by the full board at their next meeting in July.