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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That was the WORST choice possible. It sounds absolutely ridiculous and will be the joke name among high school students.

Reid chose thet because of her obsession with space and aviation, but it doesn't even make sense based on its location. [/quote]

It’s bad but it could always be worse.

Loudoun school board renamed a school “Richard Loving ES”. They’re sending hundreds of little kids to Dick Loving ES every day. [/quote]

Richard and Mildred Loving are HUGE Virginia heroes.  Grow TF up.

This stupidity angers me.  We should have a Barbara Johns High School but a bunch of infantile adults were worried it would be called BJ High, huh huh, blow jobs, huh huh, and now rather than having a high school named after a meritorious and worthy person we have vapid nothing names like “sky view.”[/quote]

You are right that some opposed to renaming JEB Stuart after Barbara Rose Johns facetiously claimed that it would get called "BJ High."

However, the bigger reason why Stuart wasn't renamed after Johns is that the local activists who wanted to rename Stuart were bitterly divided between renaming the school after Johns and after Justice Thurgood Marshall, who had lived in the Stuart district.

There was already a Marshall HS, so obviously there wasn't going to be a second one, but Sandy Evans decided she could placate her allies by getting Stuart renamed "Justice" and saying that name honored Johns, Marshall, and a third individual (Louis G. Mendez, a local WWII hero), whose name had been proffered to break the impasse between those fighting for Johns and Marshall.  The more conservative members of the School Board at the time favored Mendez over Justice, but the larger and more liberal bloc on the School Board went for Justice.

However, they later renamed three other schools after Black Americans - John Lewis, Katherine Johnson, and Carter Woodson.  Conversely, they renamed Mosby Woods "Mosaic," which was a silly name given that there was already a Mosaic District in the county served by another school (Fairhill).  [/quote]

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