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Reply to "Looks like some more schools need to have their names changed (Thomas Jefferson)"
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[quote=Anonymous]This is not just about slavery! This is about segregationists from the 1960s who picked these names to intimidate black people from living here and going to these schools. I think we can fairly say that Lee and Stuart are regarded very differently than Jefferson and Washington who made many contributions to the founding of our country. Someone mentioned Mosby Woods. All the street names in that neighborhood were named after civil war terms- plantation, rebel, etc. That area was built around 50 years ago. I'd be entirely for all those road names changing and for FCPS to make a plan and budget to change the names of schools that were named to intimidate or keep out. Washington DC was not named for that purpose so I think we can keep that one of the list[/quote]
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