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[quote=Anonymous]At the time the CHDS building was built, the commissioners for DC had their racist fun by naming schools after notorious segregationists. They named Wilson high school after a president who introduced and enforced segregation throughout the federal government--- and whose government razed the integrated Fort Reno neighborhood on land that now includes the since renamed high school.  On the Hill, an elementary school was named after John Tyler, a failed president who later, and unbelievably, joined the Confederacy. That school has been renamed, reversing the cynicism of having Black children attend a school named for someone solely because of his racist background.  And of course, many Northern Virginia schools have been renamed, in removing their Jim Crow era names.

I'm a parent of a CHDS grad,  and I'm confident that if the current parents bring this issue to the truly terrific longtime HOS and the board,  he'll work to get it done.  It's a great school with a long history of equality in education. [/quote]

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