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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He seems like many other Southerners of his era, yet also like someone who overall did more good than bad for FCPS, including it’s Black students.  I wonder whether he came to regret his earlier segregationist views in the last 20 years of his life and see the error of those opinions.

But it matters not, because our current School Board - while woefully inept at managing today’s challenges - sees a lot of benefit in canceling those who aren’t as progressive as they see themselves.

So we’ll soon get Carter G. Woodson HS, and the School Board will congratulate themselves for honoring a gay Black historian, but C.G. Woodson has no real connection to Fairfax County, and his achievements will largely be ignored if he becomes the school’s new namesake. 
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I guess, why do things that were once named need to keep their name in perpetuity? The superintendent is no longer relevant and it makes sense to change the name. The way they’re talking about it, it would be minimally inconvenient. Sounds good to me. [/quote]

Where does it end?

WT Woodson was not a slaveholder nor did he rape a teenage slave who then bore his children. Yet we will rename WTW but still have schools named after both James Madison and Thomas Jefferson.

And the time may eventually come when we have to rename Colin Powell ES, too, since history will conclude Powell likely lied deliberately in support of a foreign war that led to the death of many innocent civilians.

The “primary legacy” test that led to renaming Stuart and Lee (because it was their disreputable Confederate pasts that were primarily being honored when two schools were named after them) was a sensible one. Yet that standard does not clearly support renaming Woodson or incurring the related costs. 
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