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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's actually proceeding as contemplated.  The recent community survey suggests an overwhelming preference for changing the name (Stuart received @ 18% of the total votes cast, and other names @82%).[/quote]

Really? That's the plan? Let the community vote on seventy-something names, then ignore the one that got the most votes? 
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It's the exact opposite of ignoring it.  It's recognizing that 82% prefer something other than the minor variation on the current name.

They've already decided to change the name of JEB Stuart and this confirms Stuart without the initials (aka "Headless JEB") isn't even close to a "compromise" replacement.[/quote]

:roll: The board decided that Stuart was a viable alternative, the community voted on it, and now you are indeed arguing that the fact that Stuart won should be ignored.[/quote]

Indeed.  The community voted on it, and 82% of the votes went to other options - in a field of 73 names.  They cannot plausibly keep "Stuart" without subjecting themselves to unprecedented levels of ridicule.

It would be like having an election with one incumbent Republican and 72 Democratic primary candidates, and claiming that the Republican deserves the slot because the Democratic candidates split 72 ways, regardless of the fact that the Democrat would trounce the Republican in a general election - indeed, just like Karen Keys-Gammara trounced Chris Grisafe in the recent special election.  [/quote]

Seems to me that the school and school board are already subjects of ridicule.

If Democrats ran 72 candidates in a general election, and a lone Republican won more of the vote than any one of them, that Republican would indeed get the slot. You're twisting this in bizarre ways to negate the results of the vote. Again, a vote for Peace Valley does NOT equal a vote for Barbara Rose Johns, no matter how many times you insist that it does.
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The keepers are the subject of ridicule though their continued, outdated allegiance to a Confederate general who fought for slavery.  [/quote]

Only a few "keepers" give a fig about JEB Stuart, the general. Most just care deeply about the school and think that the time, energy, and money devoted to this effort would be better spent elsewhere. This is a school that only recently regained full accreditation!

Most of the "keepers" I've spoken to go on about erasing history, nothing about cost.  Many of the keepers are people who no longer have kids at Stuart.  The point is, the rules say the board has ultimate say in the name, so they can stick with Stuart (with only 18% of the vote) because it got the most votes or it can change it because 82% voted for a change.  The rules say it is entirely up to them. Regardless of what they decide, it won't be "yet another change of the rules" because they basically wrote rules that say they can do whatever they want.  
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