former school has made a sharp u-turn in a decision to name a theater after the comedian.The Duke Ellington School of the Arts this week confirmed its decision to name the theater after the controversial comedian amid the ongoing controversy over the trans jokes in his Netflix special, The Closer.The school announced on November 12 that it had postponed an already prepared renaming ceremony scheduled for November 23 after some of its students threatened to walk out in protest.That happened in the midst of the scandal with some Netflix employees even staging a walkout from the streaming company in protest at the jokes, which many have condemned as transphobic.The school's principal, Sandi Logan, told The Washington Post at the time that.