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The keepers are the subject of ridicule though their continued, outdated allegiance to a Confederate general who fought for slavery.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]

The "keepers" are not the topic here.  They already lost.

The "voters" chose Stuart.  Why?  Money saved for the taxpayer.  Less confusion for the graduates an students.  Hopefully, money saved for the parents.  Lots of reasons.

Some of the responses on here do not even make sense.  The person who said it would [b]only[/b] cost $200K, for example.  And, yet, at the SB meeting it was easily documented that it will cost at least $650K--and that is the minimum.

And, I'm sorry, but Barbara Johns and Thurgood Marshall are not the same person.  I don't see how you can count them together--that is, unless the whole purpose of this exercise is different from what I had thought.

If the SB chooses not to go with Stuart, they are dumber than I thought.

How can you keep changing the rules?[/quote]

You must not be familiar with the regulations at all.  The community vote is only advisory, and what it primarily tells the School Board is that there's a hard core group of keepers who want Stuart, Stuart, and more Stuart, and everybody else - who cast 82% of their votes for a name other than Stuart.

There's absolutely nothing in the rules or regulations to curtail the School Board's discretion in deciding whether a new name is appropriate, and reaffirming the Confederate General's name would be a fiasco,

As for Johns and Marshall, they are not the same person, but they are both civil rights icons, and the School Board members would be ill-advised to ignore what the combined support for Marshall and Johns signifies.   [/quote]

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