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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are likely at least three dynamics going on:

1.  Among students, white jocks (especially boys, and with the support of some parents/teachers) will rally behind the existing name; in that environment, [b]minority students often feel pressure to go along with those kids and say they don't care about the name or that alternatives are "stupid."[/b]

2.  Those advising APS will be drawn largely from self-professed "progressive" ranks and will try to outdo one another in coming up with names that repudiate Lee and "Confederate values."

3.  The School Board members have already decided on the new name and will just sit back until they have to make a decision.   
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You really think a Black W-L football player is going to be happy to go out on the field as the "Washington-Loving Generals"?  It sounds like (in the most positive interpretation) like Generals who really, really liked Washington.  Of course the name is going to be mocked by the kids at Yorktown and Wakefield.[/quote]

I think it's kind of insulting to minority students to suggest that they would only say they dislike the name out of pressure from other kids.  Are they not allowed to have an opinion that "Washington-Loving" sounds like a description of people who love Washington (do they love the person or the city?).  Of course, the W-L students will be well educated into the history of the Loving case and can be proud of supporting that.  They'll need to be since every time they tell their school name to someone outside the community, it will be followed up with, "yeah, I know it sounds weird, it doesn't mean our school loves Washington. The Lovings were..."[/quote]

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