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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry, fixed the quoting.

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How will slapping something on the wall in your classroom help your students, or their parents?[/quote]

How will tearing off a name of your school or a statue of historical significance help your students, or their parents?
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I asked that hundreds of posts ago and no one has answered.[/quote]

This is a red herring, but I'll answer anyways.[/quote]

There are hundreds of black students who attend those schools who see that their school is named after someone who literally fought a way to preserve the right to OWN people like these students as property with no human rights entitled to them.  How would you like to go attend a school named after someone who did not want to give you any rights and fought for the right to own you as chattle?  What does that say to these students?  That we believe so much in the institution that would deprive you of all right to any liberty or even the protections of the Geneva convention.  Do you think it makes them feel valued?  Do you think it makes them feel like that have any chance of exceling or even being treated equally to the students that have a different skin color?

Unless you live in a 100% white community, it is reprehensible to make minority students go to a school named after any Confederate.  And if you can't see that as a problem, the you are part of the very divisive problem in our nation today.  
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I think it's reprehensible to send white students to schools named after confederates as well. The confederacy was anti-American, treasonous and seditious, and caused the senseless deaths of over a half-million Americans for no good reason other than to protect "the peculiar institution of Slavery" upon which southern oligarchs depended for their wealth and power.[/quote]

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