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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Take that, dirty GOP special election schemers!

We got your Scalia seat ;p[/quote]

Pardon?  You mean you got a liberal SC justice?  Wow, how soon we forget!   :lol: [/quote]

um, no.  Schultz apparently was referring to the way they were planning to get this seat through dirty politics "Scalia seat"

Low voter turnout didn't turn out in the republicans favor as they intended because people were PISSED about having a special election when a few days could have put it into the november general election and saved us $250K

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/7/17/1681138/-This-School-Board-Race-Is-So-Critical-the-GOP-Is-Playing-Dirty-Tricks-to-Keep-It[/quote]

Yet somehow, spending $1 million to [i]change the name of a high school [/i]is not cause for disgust?   :roll: [/quote]

No, it's not a waste. Lee and Stuart are attended mostly now by non-white minority children and immigrant children, and it's IMO morally wrong to make them attend high schools named after white supremacist confederates. Lee HS was supposed to have been named Franconia HS, which accurately reflects its neighborhood in Springfield. But when school desegregation started in the late 50s, the school board at the time changed its name to Lee as a protest against integration. It's a historical error that now needs to be corrected. [/quote]

It's more nuanced than that.  The plan was to name the school Franconia HS, and that angered people from Springfield whose kids were slated to attend the school.  To resolve that issue, the School Board initially named the school Lee HS, since it would be in the Lee District (which was named because Fitzhugh Lee once had large holdings in the area).  In 1964, the name was changed to Robert E. Lee HS.  For most of the school's existence, it has honored a Confederate general, but the argument that the 1958 School Board deliberately picked the names to protest integration is debatable.

What is clear is that the FCPS School Board of the late 1950s opposed integration, dragged its heels to integrate the schools, and ultimately landed on names that many current students and families find unacceptable.

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