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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Actually, it's not what I said. But it's amusing to watch you try to spin it. [/quote]

You do understand that the cost is @$1million ?  How to you expect them to do it without spending lots of money?

You do understand that there are 31 schools that have connections to people who owned slaves or fought for the Confederacy?

This is Virginia.  Slavery and the Confederacy are part of its history.  
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The best estimate of the cost of changing Stuart's name is under $700K, and that is before private contributions are solicited. In the context of a $2.7-2.8 BILLION annual budget with many line items, the cost is simply not significant. If you had any facility with math, you'd stop arguing this point.

And changing Stuart's name does not necessarily portend changing the names of other schools. He appears to be unique in that he is not known for anything other than fighting for the Confederacy. There is no reason to continue to honor him and, quite frankly, the insistence of some that we continue to do so makes Fairfax County look like some backwater full of unreconstructed and insensitive rednecks.[/quote]

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