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[quote=Anonymous]Sometimes you have to judge people against the backdrop of the society they lived in, and not by how the world is more than 200 years later.  In their public lives, Washington and Jefferson played an enormous role in the establishment of an American democracy.  In their private lives, they were owned slaves, which is a travesty now, and was an awful thing then.  But was considered ordinary and acceptable by society at the time.

Kennedy is being revered on his 100th  birthday.  He also screwed anything that moved.  etc.

When did we become a nation that was completely unable to deal with complicated issues?  Is it really not possible to honor Thomas Jefferson's contributions to ur country, and also teach our kids that slavery was wrong, and Jefferson's involvement in slavery is similarly wrong?  Because PP is right.  Since human beings a complex people, and a product of their time and encvironment, we are going to be hard pressed to find anyone to name schools after if we apply 2017 standards to 1700/ people. .  And those people we do find, some future generation will find fault with.

I will says that Lee and Stuart end up being unusual cases.  If we were further South, it would not be a big issue. But FCPS, in its infinite wisdom, named these schools after Brown v. board as a protest against integration.  In other words, the were named less for southern pride, and more to make minority kids feel unwelcome. That's a real problem that FCPS needs to address.

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