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This is true across the ages.  "Strong" conquers "weak," however you wish to define these terms.  Armed vs. unarmed?

Which country has a peaceful past?   Iceland perhaps?

Here are some tips:  
1. You don't move forward w/o honoring the past.
2. Every person is a product of his/her environment. So we take the good with the bad.
3. Even if you teach - in detail - the history behind a school's name, the kids don't give a rat's a**.
4. This is a superficial, "snowflakey" attempt at addressing inequity in the system.

We are graduating kids who can't read.  I hardly think that [b]focusing on John Poole as a "bad man"[/b] will remedy that situation.[/quote]

Fortunately nobody is doing that. "John Poole owned people as property" (a statement of fact) =/= "John Poole was a bad man".

Also, a really great way to honor the past is to stop naming schools after segregationists and defenders of slavery.

(Also you evidently don't know much about the history of Iceland.)

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Regarding Iceland, I didn't support my point, did I?  I didn't do my research in other words; I simply guessed.  So if you're referring to the Vikings and their slaves, you're just proving my point.  WHICH country has a peaceful past?

This is a waste of time, IMO.  Instead, we need to focus on transience/attendance, REAL grades, REAL rigor, and the teacher retention problem.

You wouldn't know b/c you're not educator, right? [/quote]

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