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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The whole name change debacle should never have happened.[/quote]

Exactly! If only the board hadn't named a bunch of schools after traitors against the United States--soon after Brown v. Board and right as the Civil Rights movement was picking steam (surely just a coincidence)--this debate would never have happened!

But alas, a prior generation saddled us with school names that any decent person should be ashamed of and that send a toxic signal, especially to black and Latino students, that the leaders of an armed rebellion fighting to relegate non-whites to permanent second-class citizenship deserve veneration in our history books and public consciousness.

[quote=Anonymous]They could have dropped the Jeb and eliminated anything that said Jeb over years at no cost."[/quote]

... leaving the school still named after a traitor who fought for the cause of slavery. Just more subtly so, which may even be worse.

I'm not saying that the process leading up to the name change. I don't particularly care for "Justice High" and don't entirely understand why it was chosen over other, seemingly better alternatives. But the outcome is still better than keeping the school named after a traitor like Stuart.[/quote]

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