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Virginia school board votes to restore names of Confederate leaders to schools (www.nbcnews.com)

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In the wake of George Floyd’s murder, a school board in northern Virginia stripped the names of Confederate military figures from two schools. Four years later, the board approved a motion to restore the names.

The school board in Shenandoah County, Virginia, early Friday approved a proposal that will restore the names of Confederate military leaders to two public schools.

The measure, which passed 5-1, reverses a previous board’s decision in 2020 to change the names of schools that had been linked to Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee and Turner Ashby, three men who led the pro-slavery Southern states during the Civil War.

Mountain View High School will go back to the name Stonewall Jackson High School. Honey Run Elementary School will go back to the name Ashby-Lee Elementary School.

The board stripped their names after a Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd, fueling a national racial reckoning. The calls for racial justice and equity inspired some communities to remove Confederate symbolism and statues of Confederate generals.

But in Shenandoah County, the conservative group Coalition for Better Schools petitioned school officials to reinstate the names of Jackson, Lee and Ashby. “We believe that revisiting this decision is essential to honor our community’s heritage and respect the wishes of the majority,” the coalition wrote in an April 3 letter to the board, according to a copy posted online.

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[–] [email protected] 93 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Their Confederate "heritage" lasted five years. The Obama administration lasted eight years. Maybe they need a Barack Hussein Obama elementary school to celebrate their heritage.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Wikipedia has a list of places named after each president. I see zero southern schools named after Obama. You might be on to something.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_educational_institutions_named_after_presidents_of_the_United_States

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I love that the only entry under Trump is Trump University.

Nixon gets two real schools.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Obama Magnet school in Jackson, MS?

https://www.jackson.k12.ms.us/Obama

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I should have been more clear I meant public schools. Sorry.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

Now now, that heritage was established after five years and has run for generations. Their heritage is picking fights they can't win, quitting because it wasn't easy, and being a bitch about it for generations.