Is Your School Changing Its Name?

[Anonymous]

We received an email saying that 'through historical research of school names... the Board identified six schools' for potential renaming 'due to their namesakes being persons and/or related to families who had enslaved people'.

Wondering which other schools are being considered for re-naming. Can anyone else post who may have received this email?

[Anonymous]

So stupid.

[Anonymous]

This article lists the six schools and has the background

https://bethesdamagazine.com/2020/10/07/board-wants-to-know-if-communities-want-six-school-names-changed/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So stupid.

Huh. I think it’s great. It’s the right thing to do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So stupid.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This article lists the six schools and has the background

https://bethesdamagazine.com/2020/10/07/board-wants-to-know-if-communities-want-six-school-names-changed/

OP here

Ah, thanks! I hadn't seen that list.

[Anonymous]

So, they want to change Poole Middle School but not Poolesville High School?

[Anonymous]

I don’t know how I feel about this. Based on all of the mini biographies, we are not talking about people that were pro-slavery. Renaming schools cost a lot of money and it’s not where I’d prefer to put the money right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know how I feel about this. Based on all of the mini biographies, we are not talking about people that were pro-slavery. Renaming schools cost a lot of money and it’s not where I’d prefer to put the money right now.

LOL. MCPS is all about finding new ways to waste taxpayer money!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know how I feel about this. Based on all of the mini biographies, we are not talking about people that were pro-slavery. Renaming schools cost a lot of money and it’s not where I’d prefer to put the money right now.

I agree that some of them seem more egregious than others. But the article says they are just surveying each school community for feedback, so it's not a done deal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know how I feel about this. Based on all of the mini biographies, we are not talking about people that were pro-slavery. Renaming schools cost a lot of money and it’s not where I’d prefer to put the money right now.

I agree that some of them seem more egregious than others. But the article says they are just surveying each school community for feedback, so it's not a done deal.

This happened in FCCPS. The vast majority were against renaming but apparently it’s only a democracy when the community sides with the school board’s predetermined decision.

[Anonymous]

If they rename schools, they should name the schools after places or give the schools numbers. Nobody is perfect, so using a person's name is a very bad idea.

[Anonymous]

They should just rename all schools to be numbers. If your family owned slaves or did something bad then you should also go by a number. Someone’s last name could make someone sad and we don’t want this. Numbers for all!

[Anonymous]

So when do we rename the county?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They should just rename all schools to be numbers. If your family owned slaves or did something bad then you should also go by a number. Someone’s last name could make someone sad and we don’t want this. Numbers for all!

I’m sure people will eventually find a reason to be offended by numbers as well