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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why not?

There are plenty of immigrants who aren't particularly attached to the old names. We are foreigners, and wouldn't want to insert ourselves in such decisions unless we have a green card or become American, but honestly... why not?

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It would also cost money and effort to go through the process of renaming multiple schools. That's something that would have to be taken into account.[/quote]

Doing [i]anything[/i] costs money and effort. The questions are:

1. how much
2. is it worth it

I'm fine with spending a reasonable amount of money and effort to rename schools that were named after segregationists and people who owned people.[/quote]

When they went through this process in Fairfax recently, the cost estimate was $500-800K. For one school.

[url]https://www.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/ARETPL744785/$file/Stuart%20Name%20Change%20Cost%20Proposal%20-%20detail.pdf[/url][/quote]

TIL high schools have $600k worth of uniforms and sports equipment.

The vast majority of that list is replacing stuff with a couple of year shelf life anyway (sports and band uniforms).  If a school decided to change the name by changing the marquee/gym floor and replacing most of the other stuff as it wore out (don't cheerleaders have to buy new uniforms every year?  some of this doesn't make sense), then it wouldn't cost as much.  I'm sure they have a repair/replace budget - just replace with the new name.[/quote]

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