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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]12:08 So you think spending on a name change is more important than restoring the teacher positions that are being eliminated at that same school?[/quote]

If the students feel that strongly about it, and given the history of Stuart himself and the timing of the decision to name the HS that, it's very possible that they do, then I'm not going to tell them no.  [/quote]

+1000.

The people lobbying against the name change didn't say anything about teacher salaries when money was being spent on turf fields around the county.  And that was before the last round of teacher raises.  Few of them supported the meals tax, either.

But they are more than happy to put a price tag on correcting a social injustice and expect others to foot the bill.

They'd have more credibility if their "Stuart Facts" site wasn't such an obvious compilation of "Lost Cause" myths. They are very much in the tradition of those who claimed we couldn't afford to desegregate the schools, couldn't afford to educate black kids, and couldn't afford to abolish slavery - after all the Southern economy depended on it.  [/quote]

You are making assumptions that aren't true. People were mad about the turf fields although not as upset since those were to balance out schools around the county. How can you not understand that the very schools that are not doing well are losing teachers and that is a bigger problem than this name change.[/quote]

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