Hey Prince William please keep your riftraft under control

[Anonymous]

Per Arlnow

The possibility of Washington-Lee High School being renamed has prompted a Republican U.S. Senate candidate to schedule a press conference outside of tonight’s Arlington School Board meeting.

The School Board is set to discuss proposed revisions to its school naming policy Thursday night. In a presentation, school staff will recommend a series of changes that will help guide Arlington Public Schools as it selects names for a number of new facilities, including the new building in Rosslyn that will house the H-B Woodlawn and Stratford programs.

But much of the public attention will be focused on a recommendation to start a process that could remove Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s name from Washington-Lee. APS staff says the inclusion of Lee’s name would not meet the revised naming policy, which calls for APS to consider the namesake’s legacy.

“Robert E. Lee’s ‘principal legacy’ (i.e. the key activity, advocacy or accomplishment for which the individual is most known) was as General of the Confederate Army leading forces against the U.S. forces,” the staff presentation says. “This action does not reflect the APS mission, vision, and core values/beliefs.”

Prince William County Board Chairman Corey Stewart, who’s running for U.S. Senate in Virginia and seeking the GOP nomination, is planning a press conference outside the meeting.


Stewart, who has been outspoken in defense of Confederate monuments and names, says he will be joined at the press conference “by concerned Washington-Lee High School alumni.”
https://www.arlnow.com/

As if there is nothing else going on with schools right now.

[Anonymous]

It's riffraff (or rabble, disreputable persons, etc).

You undermine yourself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
It's riffraff (or rabble, disreputable persons, etc).

You undermine yourself.

touche

[Anonymous]

I definitely thought this was referring to the English royal LOL

[Anonymous]

Where is Prince William County? Nowhere close to Arlington. He should shut his racist pie hole.

[Anonymous]

I thought this was about George and Charlotte...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I definitely thought this was referring to the English royal LOL

+1

[Anonymous]

I really wanted to know what a riftraft is. I thought P William’s inflatable boat spun out on Lake Tanganyika or something.

[Anonymous]

I think riftrafting is when you fight someone while you're both on an inflatable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I definitely thought this was referring to the English royal LOL

+1

+2!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where is Prince William County? Nowhere close to Arlington. He should shut his racist pie hole.

It doesn't matter how close it is to Arlington (about 23 miles, for what it's worth); if he is running for senate, he would be looking for votes from everywhere in Virginia, including Arlington. He's probably doing/or going to do the same type of thing in Newport News and Bristol and Lynchburg.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where is Prince William County? Nowhere close to Arlington. He should shut his racist pie hole.

+1
APS admin and parents can decide they don't want their school named after a traitor who took up arms against the United States. Opposing that just makes you look silly. This isn't even close to the case of someone like Woodrow Wilson, who was a stone-cold racist (he was a Lost Causer openly in favor of segregation--in fact, he re-segregated federal agencies that had been integrated) but who is best known for being President. Lee is known for breaking his oath of allegiance to the United States and resigning his commission in the U.S. Army to lead the Confederate forces. We don't name schools after Benedict Arnold.